Financial Institutions and Markets

A.S.A Bari, a Barrister at Lincoln’s Inn, Managing Partner of A.S & Associates and, and an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh discusses Bangladesh’s current biggest legal challenge, Non-Performing Loan recovery. 

In Bangladesh, the foremost challenge for the financial institutes is Non-Performing Loan (NPL) recovery. Recently the Ministry of Finance of the Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh informed the national Parliament that the total amount of non-performing loan is BDT 560 Billion. According to Bangladesh Bank, the Central Bank of Bangladesh, NPL ratio increased by 113 basis points, reaching 9.9 percent at end of March 2016 from 8.8 percent (9.3 as per World Bank) recorded at end of December 2015. 

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