Reserve heist takes BB back to manual foreign payment
Fed warns of cutting off transactions if the Bangladesh Bank fails to rebuild SWIFT network by June next year
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Fed warns of cutting off transactions if the Bangladesh Bank fails to rebuild SWIFT network by June next year
Strong cybersecurity to build trust in a digital world The headquarters of Bangladesh Bank in Motijheel, Dhaka. The BB has cautioned all banks to be vigilant against cyber threats and its possible fallouts. Photo: Star/file Among perennial issues such as geopolitical, economic, climate and health, one of the biggest challenges for countries today is cybersecurity. As businesses and individuals become increasingly dependent on technology and digital connectivity, and with Covid-19 exacerbating our dependence, any disruption in our digital progress could be crippling. And so, a "Digital Banglad...
‘If conditions demand that we eliminate rats like you, we will’ – Manasseh receives death threat Manasseh Azure Awuni, a freelance investigative journalist, has received an email from an unknown person threatening to eliminate him like a rat after he published his latest article titled “ERRORtoral Commission and Akufo-Addo’s coup d’état’. In the said article, the journalist tried to explore the anomalies with the Techiman South parliamentary results which are in contention and the EC's denial of the people of Santrokofi, Akpafu, Lolobi and Likpe (SALL) areas their fundamental h...
+ The award-winning journalist said he received an email warning on him to check his utterances or he will be killed like fellow investigative journalist, Ahmed Suale. Speaking on Joy Newsfile in Accra, Manasseh said the article he wrote was specifically on the shenanigans in Techiman South and the inability of the people in SALL to vote in the parliamentary elections. He suggested that if these issues are not solved urgently, it will be tantamount to a “coup against the legislative arm of government.” This is not the first time a death threat has been issued against Mr. Azure. In 2017, M...
Suggesting a cyber security unit with putin, the reluctance to impose new sanctions on russia, the latest withdrawing troops from syria, does it seem as though the president is just continuing to validate this investigation? >> he certainly is. and let's not discount the tweets that he issued today, which really just looked like they were taken from putin's own play book, and that the kremlin scripted them. he continues to do everything that russia wants him to do. to spread the vision. the undermine the credibility of our institutions and remove u.s. influence from the global stage. while the...