Six-member taskforce formed to overhaul troubled banking sector

Bangladesh Bank (BB) today formed a six-member
taskforce to bring reforms to the reeling banking sector.

To this end, the central bank issued a notification.

The members are special envoy to the Chief Adviser on international affairs
Dr Lutfey Siddiqi, former central bank’s deputy governor Muhammad A (Rumee)
Ali, chairman of BRAC Bank Meheriar M Hasan, former lead economist of World
Bank’s Dhaka Office Dr Zahid Hussain, vice chancellor of ZNRF University of
Management Science Professor Dr M Zubaidur Rahman and Sabbir Ahmed, FCA,
Partner Hoda Vasi Chowdhury & Co. (BSS)