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SIMARCH holds Basel-II workshop for BB officials

FE Report | Sunday, 13 July 2008


SIMARCH Asia in cooperation with one of its partner organisations, FMO Netherlands, organised a 5-day workshop on 'Risk Management and Basel-II' in the city recently for the officials of Bangladesh Bank (BB).

SIMARCH ASIA Pte Ltd Singapore Managing Director Md Akhtaruzzaman conducted the workshop.

SIMARCH has been conducting training programmes and workshops for banking personnel in Bangladesh Since 2003. It is currently working in more than 40 countries in Europe, Africa, Latin America and Asia.

In the workshop, regulation impacts of Basel-II on the banking industry of Bangladesh had been described. Also the parallel calculations for Basel-II capital requirements were being done with the real data of a bank in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh Bank officials from Basel-II Implementation Cell, Banking Regulation and Policy Department, Department of Off-Site Supervision, Foreign Exchange Policy Department, Forex Reserve and Treasury Management Department, Department of Banking Inspection, Department of Financial Institutions and Markets, Human Resources Department, Department of Currency Management and Payment Systems and Accounts and Budgetary Department participated in the workshop.