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With the Bengal Commercial Bank starting operations, the number of banks in the country rises to 60.
The central bank gave approval to three new banks in the last two years. The banks are Community Bank Bangladesh, Bengal Commercial Bank and Citizen Bank.
Citizen Bank is yet to start operations.
Speaking on the occasion, Md Jasim Uddin, chairman of the bank, said the banking sector was now going through different types of challenges. In some cases, clients have lack of confidence in the banking sector. We will give our all-out efforts to help clients remove their confusion over the banking sector, he said.