Dhaka, Dec. 10 -- The central bank purchased over US$2.50 billion from banks in nearly last five months aiming to encourage both exporters and remitters through keeping the dollar-taka rate stable.

As part of the ongoing intervention, the Bangladesh Bank (BB) bought $202 million more through auction from 13 commercial banks on the interbank spot market on Tuesday on the same ground.

The latest amount was bought under the Multiple Price Auction method and the cutoff rate was Tk 122.29 per dollar, according to officials. Earlier on December 04, the central bank of Bangladesh purchased $132 million from 5 banks in a similar auction.

The country's banking regulator has so far bought $2.51 billion from banks directly since July 13 last unde...