Dhaka, July 9 -- Banks now enjoy a feel-good ambiance in external trade financing as foreign counterparts open line-of-credit backup mainly as Bangladesh sees significant improvements in foreign-exchange receipt, officials and bankers say.

After the changeover in state power following last year's July-August mass uprising, large international banks that typically act as correspondents for commercial banks here squeezed or suspended limit of their lines of funds for the Bangladeshi banks.

And it put the country's commercial lenders in serious trouble in dealing with international trade, according to them.

As the country's macroeconomic health started improving from early this year following payment of overdue import bills amounting to a...