Bangladesh Bank

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Bangladesh Bank
বাংলাদেশ ব্যাংক

Bangladesh Bank Monogram
Headquarters	Dhaka, Bangladesh
Established	16 December 1971 (52 years ago) (1971-12-16)
Ownership	100% state ownership[1]
Governor	Ahsan H. Mansur
Central bank of	Bangladesh
Currency	Taka (৳) BDT (ISO 4217)
Reserves	৳1700 billion (US$14 billion)
Bank rate	4%[2]
Website	https://www.bb.org.bd/en/
reserves data up to month of Aug 2015. source: "Bangladesh's forex reserves cross record $26 billion mark". bdnews24.com. bdnews24.com. 17 August 2015. Archived from the original on 10 September 2015.

Bangladesh Bank (Bengali: বাংলাদেশ ব্যাংক) is the central bank of Bangladesh and is a member of the Asian Clearing Union. It is fully owned by the Government of Bangladesh.

The bank is active in developing green banking.^[3] and financial inclusion policy and is an important member of the Alliance for Financial Inclusion.^[4] Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU), a department of Bangladesh Bank, is a member FIU of the Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units.

Bangladesh Bank is the first central bank in the world to introduce a dedicated hotline (16236) for people to complain about any banking-related problem.^[5] Moreover, the organization is the first central bank in the world to issue a "Green Banking Policy". To acknowledge this contribution, then-governor Dr. Atiur Rahman was given the title 'Green Governor' at the 2012 United Nations Climate Change Conference, which was held at the Qatar National Convention Centre in Doha.