Banks and Legal Environment presents a historical record of Banking Development in our part of the world, more particularly in Bangladesh. It incorporates all the important events of the banking sector during the last three decades including the background of nationalization of banks in 1972 and subsequent denationalization and privatization of the banking sector in 1982. Reports of the two banking Commission/committee have also been accommodated.

The book provides extensive information and data on each type of bank and non-bank financial institutions in the country. Readers will fond in it an account of the banking sector along with its problems and prospects. In addition, all the banking laws and others laws important to the banks have been incorporated in summarized form in the book to help the readers to appreciate the leagal framework in which the sector works.

It is Expected that the book will be an important contribution to the studies on banking.