Dhaka, March 3 -- Remittance rebound fetched US$2.16 billion in February-the highest monthly receipt this fiscal-while Bangladesh strives to buttress its depleting forex reserves with foreign borrowings and import curbs.

Official data showed Sunday the February count of remittances grew by around 40 per cent on a year-on-year basis as the volume of foreign currencies sent by migrant workers in the same month last year amounted to $1.56 billion.

The country last recorded $2.19 billion in remittance inflow in June last year, BB data showed.

With the latest receipt, the country has so far received $15.06 billion in the first eight months of the ongoing financial year (FY'24). The volume was 70 per cent of last fiscal's (FY'23) entire coun...