Banks can now lend more to trade-based small enterprises

Banks and other financial institutions can now lend more to trade-based cottage, micro, small and medium enterprises (CMSMEs) as the central bank yesterday raised the annual ceiling of the loans for the sector by 10 percentage points.   While unveiling the Tk 20,000 crore stimulus package for the CMSME sector in April, the central bank included trade-based micro and cottage