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Prime Finance crisis worsens despite BB lifeline (opens the original)
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Prime Finance and Investment Ltd (PFIL) is facing renewed pressure as depositors protest and seek immediate intervention from Bangladesh Bank (BB), saying the troubled non-bank financial institution has failed to meet the central bank’s conditions and repay their money. The crisis has deepened despite a three-month lifeline given by BB to help PFIL turn around its operations. Thousands of depositors are still waiting for their money, fuelling frustration and protests. “We need our hard-earned mo
Factories fail to tap Tk 20,000cr BB lifeline (opens the original)
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Around three and a half months after Bangladesh Bank announced guidelines for a loan scheme to reopen closed factories, not a single taka has been disbursed under the Tk 20,000 crore programme. The very condition applicants must meet to access the low-cost funds is proving to be a major hurdle: most closed factories have become loan defaulters. Banks also remain concerned about whether the businesses have the financial, infrastructural, and energy capacity to restart, create jobs, and survive. T
Ten banks account for 72% of total bad loans (opens the original)
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Ten banks accounted for more than 72 percent of the banking sector’s total non-performing loans, according to the central bank, showing that the country’s 61 commercial lenders are not equally responsible for the sector’s financial distress. As of June this year, bad loans in the banking sector stood at a whopping Tk 6,06,555 crore, according to the latest data from the Bangladesh Bank (BB). Of this, the 10 distressed lenders held Tk 4,39,527 crore in NPLs. The lenders are Islami Bank Bangladesh
Good borrowers pay, but defaulters finally win (opens the original)
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An economy cannot maintain credit discipline when offenders are repeatedly rewarded rather than punished. When such rewards become the norm, borrowers start to feel less obligated to repay. Economists call this the “soft budget constraint,” a term coined by Hungarian economist János Kornai to describe state-owned enterprises that expected government bailouts regardless of performance. Applied to banking, the same logic holds where borrowers who anticipate rescue lose the incentive to repay. And
Bad loans now over Tk 6 lakh crore (opens the original)
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Bad loans in the country’s banking sector have surpassed Tk 6 lakh crore once again despite a series of policy support measures for defaulted borrowers, indicating the fragile state of the sector. At the end of June, bad loans in the banking sector stood at Tk 6,06,555 crore, which is 32.78 percent of the total disbursed loans, according to the latest data from the Bangladesh Bank. In the last three months until June, defaulted loans increased by Tk 17,851 crore, with the bad loan ratio standing
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