The contribution of services and import-dependent items to Bangladesh’s headline inflation increased slightly in March 2025, while the influence of non-perishable goods and domestically sourced items declined, according to a Bangladesh Bank report titled “Inflation Dynamics in Bangladesh: January–March 2025”.

The government is set to reach an agreement with the International Monetary Fund over the exchange rate issue that has been holding up the release of the fourth and fifth tranches of the $4.7 billion loan programme soon.

Bangladesh’s approach to budgeting for health and education has come under sharp scrutiny, as decades of allocations have primarily gone towards construction. Meanwhile, the core of these sectors, service delivery, has been historically neglected.

Premier Bank paid Tk 10 crore to HBM Iqbal, the former chairman of the bank, for office space in one of his buildings that the private commercial lender did not use or rent.

The government and the International Monetary Fund are set to meet again today for another round of negotiations over the release of the fourth and fifth tranches of a $4.7 billion loan programme.

Crown Cement has posted a rise in profit and revenue for the third quarter of the fiscal year (FY) 2024–25, buoyed by higher sales.

For years, local businesses have struggled with an invisible but formidable opponent: a web of outdated, inconsistent, confusing and burdensome regulations. Navigating this bureaucratic maze has often meant facing unpredictable delays, opaque procedures, and uneven enforcement.

The US government’s recent announcement to hike the tariff on Bangladeshi goods by an additional 37 percent has already begun affecting the country’s readymade garment (RMG) industry, according to a leading denim exporter.

Mobile financial services (MFS) provider bKash posted a rise in profit and revenue in 2024.

The government will issue “Red Notices” through Interpol for businesspeople who fled abroad without paying workers’ dues, Brig Gen (retd) M Sakhawat Hussain, adviser to the Ministry of Labour and Employment, said yesterday.

The Bangladesh Bank will consider slashing the policy rate to 7 percent by March, provided that rampant inflation, which has hovered above 9 percent for nearly two years, eases to 5 percent by then, Governor Ahsan H Mansur said yesterday.

Listing of Grameenphone on the stock exchange in 2009 had a huge impact as thousands of investors flocked to open beneficiary owner accounts to get shares of the high-performing company through the initial public offering (IPO).

Remittance inflows in the first ten months of the current fiscal year have already exceeded the total receipts of FY 2023-24

The World Bank recently urged Bangladesh to implement a comprehensive set of reforms to restore confidence in our financial system, which has been weakened by poor governance, political interference and related lending.

In a rapidly evolving South Asian trade landscape, HBL Bangladesh (Habib Bank) is carving out a bold and purposeful role for itself – not as a competitor in traditional banking, but as a connector of economies and an enabler of regional trade.

Bangladesh may face political uncertainty and sluggish private investment unless the parliamentary election takes place within the promised timeframe, a leading economist warned yesterday.

Ahsan H Mansur stated that the country's Islamic banking sector would be completely restructured as most of the existing Islamic banks are currently in trouble.

Concerns are increasingly being voiced over the Chattogram port’s largest terminal, New Mooring Container Terminal (NCT), being leased out to a foreign operator, as the interim government furthers the initiative undertaken by the previous Awami League government.

This marked the steepest decline since the Covid-19 pandemic, when roughly 3.8 lakh vehicles were registered with the BRTA

Led by Finance Adviser Salehuddin Ahmed, the Bangladesh delegation held a series of meetings with IMF representatives in Washington.