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Bangladesh Bank stops all direct customer services across its offices

Directs commercial banks to ensure smooth and uninterrupted delivery of these services

All BB branches stop selling savings certificates, prize bonds

The central bank said its branches in Dhaka, Chattogram, Khulna, Bogura, Rajshahi, Sylhet, Barishal, and Rangpur will not provide the services anymore from November 20

Govt raises savings rates to cool inflation, woo investors

The interim government has increased interest rates on various national savings certificates to upwards of 12 percent in an effort to make these instruments more attractive to savers and to cool inflation.