banking sector performance regulation and bank supervision 5 1 industry statistics of the trends have been discussed in this chapter bangladesh comprises four categories scheduled banks these are nationalized commercial ncbs government owned development finance institutions dfis private pcbs foreign fcbs as december 2004 total number operating remained unchanged at 49 a 6 303 branches including 10 overseas structure with breakdown by type is shown table 2 held 39 percent assets against 41 7 2003 evidently domination area showing declining trend while share rose to 43 40 8 little decrease 0 percentage point over previous year there has decline operation their shares only 9