Editing Economy of Bangladesh (section)

===Finance===
{{See also|List of banks in Bangladesh}}
Most banks in Bangladesh are privately owned. Until the 1980s, the financial sector of Bangladesh was dominated by state-owned banks.<ref>Aaron Batten, Poullang Doung, Enerelt Enkhbold, Gemma Estrada, Jan Hansen, George Luarsabishvili, Md. Goland Mortaza, and Donghyun Park, 2015. [http://www.adb.org/sites/default/files/publication/173460/ewp-450.pdf The Financial Systems of Financially Less Developed Asian Economies: Key Features and Reform Priorities]. ADB Economics Working Paper Series No. 450</ref> With the grand-scale reform made in finance, private commercial banks were established through privatisation. The next finance sector reform programme was launched from 2000 to 2006 with focus on the development of financial institutions and adoption of risk-based regulations and supervision by Bangladesh Bank. As of date, the banking sector consisted of 4 SCBs, 4 government-owned specialized banks dealing in development financing, 39 private commercial banks, and 9 foreign commercial banks.