Banks, microfinance providers and information technology platforms should come together and increase the level of access to finance that people living in remote and rural areas had, Atiur Rahman, the governor of the Bangladesh Bank, said on Tuesday.

In remarks at the launch of a foreign remittance payment project by Buro Bangladesh, a microfinance institution in the South Asian country, Rahman lauded the fact that six banks had already come on board the scheme, and said he was "heartened to know