Dhaka, Bangladesh (BBN)- The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has been nominated as the member of the Steering Committee of Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI) in its Global Policy Forum (GPF) meeting on 08 September 2014 held in Trinidad and Tobago.

Bangladesh was recommended by the Central Bank of Philippines and was fully supported by the Steering Committee, a BB statement said in Dhaka on Saturday.

The central bank of Bangladesh will represent the Asian Region in the Steering Committee.

The BB was recently given AFI Policy Award for its contribution in providing enabling policy guidelines for fast expanding mobile financial services in Bangladesh.

BBN/SSR/AD-04Oct14-4:20 pm (BST)