Bangladesh’s FX reserves, calculated following the IMF guidelines, amounted to USD 23.57 bln, a figure 21% less than the nearly USD 30 bln previously calculated by the country’s central bank using a traditional method. The bank released this new reserves data for the first time on Thursday, a requirement for the USD 4.7 bln loan program with the IMF. The reserves should still suffice to cover approximately four months of imports.