Dhaka, July 1 -- Cash feeding into banks continues as the regulator decided to defer rollback of 14-day-tenure central-bank repo by minimum three months, to a much-needed respite to the commercial lenders from liquidity crunch.

The Bangladesh Bank (BB) earlier in April last decided to phase out the 14-day liquidity instrument from this July following an IMF lending condition requiring Bangladesh to stop banks' overdependence on repo facility.

The deferment of scraping the most-used liquidity instrument by commercial lenders from the central bank comes as the regulator has yet to complete the infrastructure to introduce intraday liquidity facility (ILF), which is essential to avert severe fund mismatch the banks may fall in with disconti...