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80pc banks unable to face accidents in data centre

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Published: 15:27, 2 November 2017   Update: 15:18, 26 July 2020
80pc banks unable to face accidents in data centre

Staff Correspondent: 80 percent banks in the country do not have enough skilled and efficient manpower to face any accidents such as cyber attack, fire in their data centre.

Bangladesh Institute of Bank Management (BIMB) in a research report provided the information.

Associate Professor of BIBM Sihab Uddin Khan presented the report at a workshop 'Disaster Recovery Management in Online Banks: Challenge and Remedial Measures' at BIBM auditorium in the capital's Mirpur on Thursday.

Deputy Governor of Bangladesh Bank (BB) Abu Hena Mohammad Razee Hassan attended the workshop as the chief guest while BIBM's acting Director General Dr Shah Md Ahsan Habib presided over it.

BIBM conducted the survey on 27 commercial banks--20 private, two state-owned, two specialized and three foreign banks.

Online banking is increasingly becoming popular but there are 11 challenges in managing the disaster or accident in online banking, the report said.

There is lack of skilled manpower and coordination between general banking section and ICT section in 80 percent banks, it said, adding that 54 percent banks have shortage of fund for data disaster management.

BB deputy governor Abu Hena Mohammad Razee Hassan said banks must have alternative system to face any accident in online banking.

BB has already prepared a guideline which will have to be implemented properly to protect the interest of the clients of banks, he added.

risingbd/Dhaka/Nov 2, 2017/MA Rahman/Amirul

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