FEPD Circular No. 25: Term lending in Taka to foreign owned/controlled companies — BB — BD

Foreign Exchange Policy Department
Bangladesh Bank
Head Office
Dhaka
Website: www.bb.org.bd
FE Circular No. 25 Date: July 02, 2025
All Authorized Dealers in
Foreign Exchange in Bangladesh
Dear Sirs,
Term lending in Taka to foreign owned/controlled companies Please refer to paragraph 4(C), Chapter 16 of the Guidelines for Foreign Exchange Transactions-2018, Vol-1, in terms of which foreign owned/controlled companies engaged in manufacturing or services output activities for three years or longer in Bangladesh can access Taka term loans from the domestic market for capacity expansion or BMRE regardless of local content in their equity; subject to adherence by banks/financial institutions to all applicable credit norms and prudential parameters including single borrower exposure limit, debt-equity ratio not exceeding 50:50.
02. To facilitate local borrowings by foreign owned/controlled companies, it has been
decided to set debt-equity ratio at 60:40 from 50:50.
03. All other instructions in this regard shall remain unchanged. Please bring the contents
of this circular to the notice of your relevant clientele.
Yours faithfully,
(Monoar Uddin Ahmed)
Director (FEPD)
Phone: 9530119
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Guideline of 2018Not in RegAlert
“Please refer to paragraph 4(C), Chapter 16 of the Guidelines for Foreign Exchange Transactions-2018, Vol-1, in terms of which foreign owned/controlled companies engaged in manufacturing or services output activities for three years or long…”