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The State of Bangladesh Banking

A clinical examination of Bangladesh's banking architecture, balance sheet distress, non-performing loans (NPLs), prompt corrective action (PCA) interventions, and the systemic liquidity mechanisms underpinning the sovereign economy.

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The share of loans that are not being repaid has moved from 1.9 percent in the first year of the record to 9.6 percent at the latest reading.

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The share of loans that are not being repaid has moved from 1.9 percent in the first year of the record to 9.6 percent at the latest reading.

The line is not a steady climb: it peaked at 9.9 percent, eased to 7.7 percent, and turned back up in the final years.

Only loans already classified as bad are counted here, and rescheduling can keep a troubled account out of that count.

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Primary Sources 6 Citations

[1] Bangladesh Bank ['ch1', 'ch2', 'ch4', 'ch5']

Annual Report FY2023-24 Table 4.1 bank structure, Financial Stability Report 2024, and the NPL, lending-rate, deposit-rate and private-credit series

https://www.bb.org.bd/

[2] World Bank ['ch1', 'ch2', 'ch3']

World Development Indicators (broad money/GDP, CPI inflation, real interest rate, branches per 100k) and the peer-country banking series

https://databank.worldbank.org/source/world-development-indicators

[3] International Monetary Fund ['ch4', 'ch5']

Article IV consultation 2024, the benchmark behind the state-owned bank recapitalisation shortfalls and the NPL scenarios

https://www.imf.org/en/Countries/BGD

[4] Asian Development Bank ['ch4']

Foreign exchange reserves, series adb_forex_reserves, the highest-authority series carrying data for the fx_reserves concept

https://www.adb.org/what-we-do/data/main

[5] United Nations ['ch4']

UN Comtrade total merchandise imports, series trade_total_imports, the authority-1 series for the total_imports concept behind the import-cover chart

https://comtradeplus.un.org/

[6] fawazahmed0/currency-api ['ch4']

USD/BDT daily rate, series usd_bdt_rate, attributed currency_api by its collector and not a Bangladesh Bank figure

https://github.com/fawazahmed0/exchange-api