Newly appointed Bangladesh Bank Governor Fazle Kabir has suddenly visited two departments of foreign exchange management after joining the central bank.
He made his maiden visit at 3.30pm yesterday to the Accounting and Budgeting Department and Foreign Exchange Reserve and Treasury Management Department of Bangladesh Bank.
He visited the office of the dealing room, which is highly restricted and deals with the foreign transactions through SWIFT code.
He got an idea on how foreign transactions take place and what technical function is used, said a senior executive of a respective department.
During his half an hour visit, he talked to the officers of the two departments.
The governor will hold a meeting with all the general managers and senior officers on Sunday next.
He is trying to remove the existing panic among the officers to create a comfortable working atmosphere, said a top manager of Bangladesh Bank.
He said: “The governor has made some internal changes in work and responsibilities of public relation department.”
Although the new governor was advised by the Finance Ministry to cancel job contract of some officers, who were close to former governor Atiur Rahman, he did not pay heed to the suggestion on humanitarian ground.
Rather, instead of canceling the job agreement, he changed the job responsibilities of said officials by issuing departmental order on Wednesday, according to the source.
FazleKabir joined with Bangladesh Bank on March 20 and held series of meeting with high officials giving the first priority on recovery-stolen reserve in his work agenda.
Earlier on March 15, Atiur resigned from the post of governor in the wake of recent digital heist of US$101m from the central bank’s reserve account with Federal Reserve Bank of New York.