Special on Financial inclusion
AGENT BANKING / A boon for rural people
Banks are witnessing a faster growth in the number of female customer accounts than those of males under the agent banking
Financial inclusion forging ahead
Bangladesh has made significant progress in financial inclusion over the past eight years, with as much as 45 percent of the adult
Banks come to the rescue of poor kids
Street children are progressively taking to the idea of keeping their hard-earned income in a bank, with the deposits in their accounts
MOBILE FINANCIAL SERVICES / Lives changing for better
Between 2000 and 2011, Afzal Hossain had to travel more than 300 kilometres to come to Dhaka from Rangpur every month to collect
Tk-10 accounts benefit farmers
The Tk-10 bank account enabled Md Abdul Khaleq to take a collateral-free loan of Tk 50,000 from a bank for the first time in life.
Students showing interest in saving
The school banking programme introduced by the Bangladesh Bank in 2010 is growing in popularity among students, with the deposit
Atiur Rahman: The architect of financial inclusion
As recently as April 2009, there were no words like 'financial inclusion' in the Bangladesh Bank's lexicon.