GUIDELINES TO FILL IN THE NBFI RETURNS- 2 & 3

Since July, 1974 the Statistics  Department  of  Bangladesh  Bank  has  been  collecting  detailed information on deposits, debits, advances and bills from all branches of scheduled banks operating in Bangladesh in the prescribed formats SBS-2 and SBS-3 on quarterly basis. This department is also collecting financial data on SME, Interest Rate Spread and Economic Purpose & Sector wise disbursement, recovery, outstanding and overdue etc. On the basis of these returns a consistent database is compiled for policy makers and other users. This information is therefore extremely vital for formulating monetary policy, credit policy, planning of economic developments. Like Scheduled banks, NBFIs are playing an important role in the current economic activities, development, growth and financial inclusion etc. It becomes necessary to collect data on NBFI through the prescribed formats of NBFI-2 and NBFI-3 to fulfill the demand of policymakers, researchers and other stakeholders of the economy. This department has taken initiative to collect NBFIs data on quarterly basis from January-March, 2017 quarter.

Detailed instructions, explanations and definitions have been provided below to help t h e NBFI officials to prepare NBFI -2 and NBFI -3 returns.