The record holds 11 entries from Bangladesh, across 5 industries, led by Finance & Insurance, then Government & Public Sector. Last updated 14 Sep 2026.
Bangladesh25 Nov 2025Prime Bank PLC — Prime Bank PLC now offers Bangladesh's first AI-powered digital letter of credit management platform, Prime Banijjo. Clients get automated drafting, compliance screening and live tracking, easing paperwork and speeding turnaround across the LC lifecycle. First for AI in trade finance locally, per the bank.
Bangladesh27 Sep 2025Dhaka Bank PLC — Dhaka Bank PLC's eRin Device APP gives Bangladesh its first AI-driven digital loan platform, built with Samsung Electronics and Banglalink for financing smartphones and smart devices. AI-based lending now judges creditworthiness and speeds approvals for service professionals, micro-entrepreneurs and underserved communities.
Bangladesh22 Aug 2025Community Bank Bangladesh PLC — MSME lending in Bangladesh now runs through an AI credit scoring for MSMEs tool built by Community Bank Bangladesh PLC with partners PriyoShop and Insights Genie, the first alternative scoring model of its kind in the country. Rather than relying on collateral, it weighs demographic data, purchase patterns, psychometric signals and behavioural analytics to judge creditworthiness, opening short-term loans to small retailers long excluded from formal banking via a fast eKYC process. This small business credit assessment marks a shift from conventional collateral-based lending.
Bangladesh13 May 2025Mutual Trust Bank PLC — Mutual Trust Bank PLC (MTB) became the first lender in Bangladesh to roll out an AI voice contact centre agent, letting account holders speak commands for balance inquiries, card activation and PIN generation rather than punching keypad options or sitting on hold. Available 24/7, the tool sharpens its own replies over time via machine learning, functioning as an AI virtual assistant for banking that keeps improving with use.
Bangladesh24 May 2026Dhaka Metropolitan Police — Dhaka police linked city traffic cameras to AI traffic enforcement software in April 2026 for automatic violation detection, from illegal parking to lane and signal breaches. Officers check each case before a fine, owners get a text message, and at least 300 vehicles have been prosecuted, with serious offenders fined and others warned. Manual enforcement will gradually end, police said.
Bangladesh15 Dec 2025ICT Division, Government of Bangladesh — kagoj.ai, Bangladesh's first Bangla-language AI platform, has gone live from the ICT Division alongside 'July', a new government typeface. Nearly 4,000 volunteers trialled it over a fortnight before official debut. Authorities plan to release the API and code openly, while extending efforts to gather spoken-word data from ethnic minority communities using this AI platform built for Bangla.
Bangladesh9 Nov 2025Government of Bangladesh — Bangladesh now has a comprehensive Bangladesh data protection regulation under Ordinance No. 61 of 2025, treating each citizen as owner of their own personal data. Processors need explicit consent before collecting or handling that data, and a new National Data Governance Authority polices compliance. Violators risk fines and up to seven years' imprisonment, with 6 November 2025 marking the ordinance's start, per the personal data protection ordinance's terms.
Bangladesh6 May 2025Government of Bangladesh — Bangladesh is first in South Asia to punish AI-powered offences, addressing artificial intelligence misuse under the Cyber Security Ordinance 2025 gazetted 21 May 2025. The interim government's law scraps nine sections of the 2023 Cyber Security Act, grants internet access as a civic right, bans online gambling, and penalises abuse of women and children online.
Bangladesh12 Feb 2025Shikho — Bangladesh-based edtech company Shikho unveiled a beta AI tutoring assistant for Bangla-speaking students, running on generative models fine-tuned for Bangla-language processing to narrow academic gaps. This AI-powered doubt-solving platform for students serves paying subscribers first, ahead of rollout to teachers, parents and schools. A freemium option follows, designed for cheap smartphones and minimal data use.
Bangladesh8 Oct 2025Labaid Group — Labaid Group debuted two AI healthcare tools at Labaid Cancer Hospital and Super Speciality Centre in Dhaka: Labaid-GPT, giving physicians rapid, evidence-based recommendations from treatment guidelines and clinical records, and LUNA, an AI-driven clinical support chatbot cycling through eight functions from nursing to legal counsel. Eight patents protect the pair, unveiled 7 September 2025.
Bangladesh26 Nov 2025Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs, Government of Bangladesh — Daffodil International University and Daffodil Software Ltd built Bangladesh's e-Family Court platform free of charge to government. Dhaka Family Court-5 switched on first; Chattogram Family Court-1 followed on 30 November 2025, enabling online filing, digital records and partial remote hearings. About 250 to 300 judiciary, law ministry and Supreme Court staff piloted the family court digitisation system beforehand.
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The record is maintained continuously by the Industrial Research Unit of the Straits Institute for Applied AI: entries are added as they are found and verified, not on a schedule, and nothing is published without an open source behind it. It currently holds 1745 entries across 249 countries.
