Rejoinder and FE's reply

Dutch Bangla Bank Limited has sent a rejoinder to a news item published in the August 04, 2018 issue of The Financial Express under the headline 'MFS providers look wide apart over impact'.

The rejoinder issued by the DBBL CEO and Managing Director Abul Kashem Md. Shirin said that the statements made in para nos. 7, 8 & 9 of the report were 'misquoted'.

'This is very misfortune that while banks are protesting against mobile operators' on boarding into MFS and Central Bank also taken this positively, publication of statements in my name based on assumptions of the reporter is totally damaging to the industry', the DBBL Managing Director said in the rejoinder.

FE's reply:

The statements made in para nos. 7, 8 & 9 of the report were based on telephonic conversation between the reporter and DBBL CEO and Managing Director Abul Kashem Md. Shirin.

Any instance of misquote was not based on the reporter's assumption but could be due to a communication gap during the conservation between the two parties.