Bangladesh
Bank (BB) on Saturday launched the web portal, Digital Map of Financial
Services in Bangladesh at a function at the BB Training Academy.
The map includes geographic information of bank branches,
ATMs, agents, and other financial access points across the country. Bangladesh
Bank Governor Atiur Rahman launched the web portal.
This project was sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation, facilitated by BB and Microcredit Regulatory Authority,
and implemented by a specialist firm Brand Fusion who hired
local data collectors to go around Bangladesh over a six-month period earlier
this year.
Speaking on the launch of the programme Atiur said the map
would help us to generate information and analyse the financial access points
and would eventually be a great value to the commercial sector.
“This new tools can complement our new Integrated
Supervision System which is our new electronic portal which allows us to monitor
many aspects of the financial sector both at the aggregate macro level as well
as zoom into branch level data,” the governor said.
Besides, he said this new financial mapping tool to be used
by both BB and the Microfinance Regulatory Authority (MRA) in making balanced
and sound policy and regulatory decisions.
For example BB staff can use this when giving bank branch
permissions and also when determining the appropriate balance of branch, ATM,
agent and other point of service.
News Source:
The Independent
Dated:- 28-Oct-2013
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