loan defaulter

State banks nowhere near target to retrieve funds from top defaulters

Four state-run banks in Bangladesh are finding it difficult to recoup loans from their top 20 defaulters, a failure that has worsened their financial health and squeezed their capacity further to lend.

Draft RPA (amendment) 2023 / Setting rules of the game without parties’ consent may prove unwise

It is quite intriguing how the RPA amendment can be so accommodating to defaulters who are desperate to gain political power.

Sri Lankan president Gotabaya appoints 17-member new cabinet

Beleaguered Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has named a 17-member cabinet, despite growing calls for his resignation, according to the BBC.

TIB urges BB not to allow Beximco for rescheduling loan

The Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has called upon Bangladesh Bank to refrain from a self-defeating move that would grant a top-ranking defaulter for rescheduling Tk 430cr loan.

Editorial / Don't reward the defaulters

Over the first nine months of 2018, banks waived interests worth Tk 422.14 crore on nonperforming loans (NPLs). This practice has been the norm over the past few years which has had no positive impact on getting habitual defaulters to pay back their loans.

Editorial / Defaulter within

The Daily Star report has found that this person has also taken loans amounting to about Tk 1 crore from colleagues on an informal basis. This indicates that people in his workplace were aware of his incorrigible habit of taking money and not repaying it. Why did they not report him?

MACRO MIRROR / Loan default and flaunting money

Recently, in Davos at the World Economic Forum, the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, Raghuram Rajan sent a strong message to the Indian businessmen who default thousands of crores of bank money...

I’m made loan defaulter with tricks: Kader Siddique

Krishak Sramik Janata League President Abdul Kader Siddique claims that state-run Agrani Bank made him a loan defaulter with tricks to have his nomination paper filed for contesting Tangail-4 by-polls cancelled.

July 10, 2024
July 10, 2024

State banks nowhere near target to retrieve funds from top defaulters

Four state-run banks in Bangladesh are finding it difficult to recoup loans from their top 20 defaulters, a failure that has worsened their financial health and squeezed their capacity further to lend.

May 24, 2023
May 24, 2023

Setting rules of the game without parties’ consent may prove unwise

It is quite intriguing how the RPA amendment can be so accommodating to defaulters who are desperate to gain political power.

April 18, 2022
April 18, 2022

Sri Lankan president Gotabaya appoints 17-member new cabinet

Beleaguered Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has named a 17-member cabinet, despite growing calls for his resignation, according to the BBC.

September 13, 2019
September 13, 2019

TIB urges BB not to allow Beximco for rescheduling loan

The Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has called upon Bangladesh Bank to refrain from a self-defeating move that would grant a top-ranking defaulter for rescheduling Tk 430cr loan.

February 6, 2019
February 6, 2019

Don't reward the defaulters

Over the first nine months of 2018, banks waived interests worth Tk 422.14 crore on nonperforming loans (NPLs). This practice has been the norm over the past few years which has had no positive impact on getting habitual defaulters to pay back their loans.

October 10, 2017
October 10, 2017

Defaulter within

The Daily Star report has found that this person has also taken loans amounting to about Tk 1 crore from colleagues on an informal basis. This indicates that people in his workplace were aware of his incorrigible habit of taking money and not repaying it. Why did they not report him?

January 25, 2016
January 25, 2016

Loan default and flaunting money

Recently, in Davos at the World Economic Forum, the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, Raghuram Rajan sent a strong message to the Indian businessmen who default thousands of crores of bank money...

October 19, 2015
October 19, 2015

I’m made loan defaulter with tricks: Kader Siddique

Krishak Sramik Janata League President Abdul Kader Siddique claims that state-run Agrani Bank made him a loan defaulter with tricks to have his nomination paper filed for contesting Tangail-4 by-polls cancelled.