Bangladesh Bank recorded a net profit of Tk25,900 crore in fiscal year 2025-26, up Tk3,280 crore from Tk22,620 crore in the previous fiscal year, 2024-25. The central bank’s board approved the financial statements for the past fiscal year at a meeting on Sunday chaired by Governor Mostakur Rahman in the central bank’s conference room.

The board also approved an incentive bonus equivalent to six times the basic salary for central bank officials. Bangladesh Bank’s lending-management operations remained active despite an economic slowdown, as banks facing liquidity shortages borrowed more money from the central bank than before. This increased the central bank’s interest income.

Profits also rose because reserve funds invested in different countries generated good returns. Economists said earning profit is not a central bank’s main function, stressing its responsibilities for banking-sector oversight, inflation control, private-sector investment and job creation. They said the deterioration in the economy and banking sector contributed to the higher profit and cautioned that the central bank should not stray from its core goals. In fiscal 2023-24, it made about Tk40,000 crore in actual profit, including Tk15,300 crore in net profit.