Dhaka, Feb. 21 -- The market infrastructure module (MI Module), a key automated auction-trading platform of Bangladesh Bank, resumed function on Tuesday, following a full-day shutdown on the previous day.

Transactions between the central bank and 61 commercial banks of the country remained suspended on Monday, holding back an estimated transaction of around Tk 200 billion.

"This was simply because of technical glitches," Md Mezbaul Haque, an executive director and spokesperson of Bangladesh Bank, told the FE.

The module is to facilitate automated auction and trading of the government securities, repo, SLF (standing liquidity facility), ALSF (assured liquidity support facility), AR (assured repo), MLS (Mudarabah liquidity support) and I...