Statistics Department

Bangladesh Bank
Head Office, Dhaka

StD Circular Letter No. 03 Date: October 15, 2015

Managing Director/CEO
All Authorized Dealer Banks
& their Offshore Banking Units (OBUs) in Bangladesh

Subject : Submission of Returns on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Private Sector

External Debt (PSED) and Portfolio Investment (PI) in prescribed Form (FI-1, FI-2, ED-1,
ED-2, STED & PI)/ RIT on monthly / quarterly basis.

Dear Sir,

Attention of the Authorized Dealers (ADs) is invited to para 3.1 of the STD Circular
No.03, dated; May12, 2014 on above subject wherein it is needed to clarify Time Frame/
Submission Deadline of Inward Foreign Direct Investment return (Form FI-1) and related
Rationalised Input Templates (RITs). The said para is explained as follows:

“All FDI Enterprises ( 100% Foreign owned and joint venture) have to submit
properly filled in FDI Reporting Form (Form FI-1) along with supporting documents
(Audited/Unaudited Financial statements related to reporting quarter, Documents related
to inward and outward remittances etc.) to their reporting AD Banks within one month
following the reference quarter.

After checking FDI Reporting Forms submitted by FDI enterprises, Reporting AD

Banks have to submit properly filled in RITs related to Inward Foreign Direct Investment
through web-portal along with hard copies of FDI Reporting Forms to Bangladesh Bank
within one month and 15 days following the reference quarter”.

Other instructions of the aforementioned STD Circular will remain unchanged.

Please bring this content of this circular letter to the notice of all concerned.

Yours faithfully

(Mrinal Kanti Sarker)

Deputy General Manager
Phone: 9530134