Balance of payment shows record surplus at $4bn Anisul Islam Noor 15th December, 2020 10:05:56 The country’s overall Balance of Payments (BoP) has marked a record surplus at over $4.1 billion during the July-October period as capital machinery and other import demand dropped amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The current account balance was in deficit of over $ 1.52 billion and the overall balance of payment was in deficit of $229 million during the July-October period of FY 2019-20. Economists attributed the surplus BoP to a slow pace in financial activities amid the Covid-19 pandemic. A steady inflow of remittance and a rise in external fund flows also contributed to the surplus, they noted.