{"id":314476,"date":"2025-11-29T14:23:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T14:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/314476\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T14:23:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T14:23:13","slug":"10-policy-rate-to-be-reduced-if-inflation-drops-below-8-2-bb-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/314476\/","title":{"rendered":"10% policy rate to be reduced if inflation drops below 8.2%: BB governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       Tackling the issue of non-performing loans will take five to 10 years, says Ahsan H Mansur.     <\/p>\n<p>\n                    TBS Report\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n      29 November, 2025, 01:50 pm    <\/p>\n<p>\n      Last modified: 29 November, 2025, 03:04 pm    <\/p>\n<p>\n      File photo of Bangladesh Bank\/BSS&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&gt; <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"adf-overlay ratio ratio__16x9 lazyload\" data-aspectratio=\"452\/254\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764426191_965_bangladesh_bank.jpg\" width=\"452\" height=\"254\" alt=\"File photo of Bangladesh Bank\/BSS&#13;&#10;\" title=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n          File photo of Bangladesh Bank\/BSS&#13;\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">Bangladesh Bank Governor Ahsan H Mansur said today (29 November) the central bank&#8217;s policy rate is currently 10%, which will be lowered if inflation drops below 8.2%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">Speaking at the Fourth Bangladesh Economic Conference 2025, the central bank governor remarked that the current rate is &#8220;not high.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">He said the gap between the policy interest rate and inflation should be between 2.5% and 3%.<\/p>\n<p>        <a style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #2b4949; border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc; font-size: 18px;\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMIivlQsw2ZKrAw?ceid=US:en&amp;oc=3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tbsnews.net\/sites\/all\/themes\/sloth\/images\/google_news.svg\" alt=\"The Business Standard Google News\" style=\"display: inline-block; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 10px; height: 30px;\"\/><br \/>\n            Keep updated, follow The Business Standard&#8217;s Google news channel<br \/>\n          <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">Mentioning that inflation stands at 8.2%, he added that if it falls further, ideally into the 7% range, the policy rate will be reduced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">Mansur also announced that the new United Islami Bank, being created through the merger of five Shariah-based lenders, is set to begin operations next week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">Addressing challenges in the banking sector, Mansur noted that tackling the issue of non-performing loans (NPLs) will take five to 10 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tackling the issue of non-performing loans will take five to 10 years, says Ahsan H Mansur. TBS Report&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-314476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}