Rejaul Karim Byron

Private-sector credit growth reached 14.19 percent in December 2015, which is 0.69 percentage point higher year-on-year.

The Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation has once again sought a large amount of funds from the government to make its ailing mills

Bangladesh's external balance is still going strong but the central bank projects that it could weaken at the end of

The government has taken up three projects aimed at ensuring smooth traffic flow on the exit routes from the capital.

Sri Lanka is one of the few countries that have been successfully running mobile banking, reaching out to 50 percent

Ganesh Saini, who hails from a village in Rajasthan, works at a roadside restaurant in Jaipur for Rs 6,000 every month.

India is set to launch payments banks, a mobile banking system largely dominated by telecom companies that can

Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation this year is expected to log in twice the profit it counted in fiscal 2014-15 on the back of the low oil price on the international market. The benefits of this low price, however, are yet to trickle down to the consumers.

The central bank yesterday announced policy rate cuts of 50 basis points as a push to the economy, as Bangladesh strives to achieve 7

The central bank is set to cut its policy rates for the first time in three years in an effort to spur investment in the economy.

The first board meeting of the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank is set to be held on January 16 in Beijing, where major

Bangladesh is on track to log in the second best economic growth figure this year out of 93 countries, according to American news

The government is set to take up a massive automation programme with financial assistance from the World Bank for nine state-owned

The government is set to take up a $100 million project to introduce a private sector pension scheme and automate the insurance regulator.

Bangladesh's economic growth will keep up its momentum this fiscal year despite pressure on the budget from a salary hike for

The total cost of the much-hyped Padma bridge project will finally come to Tk 28,793.38 crore, which is almost

State-owned commercial banks saw their operating profits decline 4.69 percent year-on-year in 2015 owing to low credit growth and

Seven state-owned banks jointly decided to lower their lending rates by 1.5 to 2 percentage points in a bid to compete with private

The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) is likely to endorse a Tk 181 crore project today for infrastructural

Banks' overall capital base went up 6.58 percent in the third quarter of 2015 from three months earlier as the asset quality of private