Bangladesh Bank Buys $100m from Banks, Records Highest May Purchase

Bangladesh Bank (BB) bought $100 million from six commercial banks on Monday, marking its highest single-day greenback purchase in May. The central bank acquired the dollars at a rate of Tk.122.75 each, according to official regulatory data.

Prior to this transaction, the highest single-day dollar purchase of this calendar year occurred on January 6, when the central bank bought $223.5 million at Tk.122.30 per dollar.

Meanwhile, within the ongoing 2025-26 fiscal year, the record for the largest single-day purchase remains with September 15 last year, when BB snapped up $353 million at Tk.121.75 per dollar.

"With Monday’s transaction, the central bank has purchased a total of $310 million from commercial banks so far in May," BB Executive Director Arief Hossain Khan confirmed.

Before Monday's large-scale market intervention, the regulatory body had last purchased $40 million from the interbank market on Thursday.

Through these consistent dollar acquisitions, the central bank has simultaneously injected substantial local currency liquidity into the banking system. According to BB data, the regulator has purchased a cumulative total of $5.98 billion from the market so far in the current fiscal year.