Default loans fall slightly for relaxed rules

Defaulted loans in the banking sector went down slightly in the third quarter this year thanks to the moratorium on bank loan payments provided by the central bank. Non-performing loans (NPLs) stood at Tk 94,440 crore as of September, down 1.74 per cent from three months earlier and 18.73 per cent year-on-year, data from the Bangladesh Bank showed. But experts and bankers