HC bars trade, town association groups from Ctg chamber’s polls
23 October 2025, 15:00 PM
Business
Akij Resource plans to launch digital bank
23 October 2025, 13:27 PM
Business
ILO ratification demands labour reforms in Bangladesh
23 October 2025, 12:59 PM
Business
Summit Power’s profit plunges 88% in FY25
23 October 2025, 10:18 AM
Business
Culture of impunity behind repeated industrial disasters: BILS
23 October 2025, 08:05 AM
Business
Govt moves to boost House Building Corporation’s lending capacity
22 October 2025, 18:42 PM
Business
Interbank dollar price crosses Tk 122 after 2.5 months
22 October 2025, 18:36 PM
Business
Auction full ‘golden spectrum’, lower prices
22 October 2025, 18:35 PM
Business
Foreign banks top profits, trail in social spending
22 October 2025, 18:24 PM
Business
Telcos, ISPs asked to boost fire safety measures
22 October 2025, 15:40 PM
Business
Will BB’s lending rate-setting formula yield expected results?
The Bangladesh Bank has decided to implement a market-based interest rate from July, moving away from the 9 per cent interest rate cap on loans, an initiative that may help the central bank uses its policy rates effectively in its fight against higher inflation.
30 April 2023, 02:00 AM
Explore avenues to tax digital economy: CPD
Bangladesh should explore avenues on how to tax the country’s growing digital economy so that it can increase spending on urgent development needs and allocate more resources for priority sectors such as health and education, according to the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD).
29 April 2023, 18:00 PM
StanChart wins International Business Magazine awards
Standard Chartered Bangladesh recently won the “Best CSR Bank” and “Most Innovative Digital Bank” awards of the UAE-based International Business Magazine.
29 April 2023, 18:00 PM
Local CEOs in global corporations
In our international business course, we were taught to differentiate between truly global, multinational, foreign and regional companies.
29 April 2023, 18:00 PM
Betel nut providing added benefit to farmers
Betel nut, also called the areca nut, has become a great source of additional income for farmers in Bangladesh as the fruit native to South Asia and parts of east Africa is widely consumed in the country.
28 April 2023, 03:30 AM
Retailers’ Eid sales fall short of expectations
Businesses across the country had mixed bag of reactions when asked about their sales prior to the just-concluded Eid-ul-Fitr on April 22, with many blaming an inflation-induced rise in the cost of living and a heatwave taking a toll on shoppers.
28 April 2023, 03:00 AM
Sudan conflict won’t impact cotton import
An ongoing conflict in Sudan will not have any major impact on Bangladesh’s import of cotton from the country as it accounts for a very small part of the import and there are some alternative African sources for local importers, spinners and millers.
28 April 2023, 02:30 AM
Forex reserves keep falling amid dollar selling spree
The central bank has kept injecting a hefty volume of US dollars into the market to help banks clear import bills, eroding the Bangladesh’s foreign exchange reserves.
28 April 2023, 02:00 AM
LankaBangla issues Tk 300cr bonds to attract diverse investors
LankaBangla Finance has recently issued non-convertible, zero-coupon bonds worth about Tk 300 crore to attract a diverse group of investors, including individuals, corporates, banks, insurance companies, mutual funds, and pension and gratuity funds.
27 April 2023, 18:00 PM
Standard Insurance made Tk 10cr profit in 2022
Standard Insurance Limited posted a 2.6 per cent year-on-year increase in profit to Tk 10.17 crore in 2022.
27 April 2023, 18:00 PM
FBCCI signs MoU with Japan chamber
The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) and the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JCCI) yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) at The Westin Tokyo, Japan to strengthen bilateral trade and economic relations.
27 April 2023, 18:00 PM
BASIS partners with Japanese IT assoc
In a boost to the local ICT sector, the Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) has signed a memorandum of understanding with Japan Information Technology Services Industry Association (JISA) to increase collaboration.
27 April 2023, 18:00 PM
Your failures don’t define you
During my university days, I was asked by my father to take charge of a horticulture project on a large piece of hilly land in our village in Cumilla.
27 April 2023, 18:00 PM
Make draft Bank Companies Act public
The Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has urged the government to publish the draft Bank Companies (Amendment) Act for the interest of the people.
27 April 2023, 18:00 PM
Summit signs $2b MoU with Japan’s Jera
Summit Corporation Ltd yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding with Japan’s Jera Asia Pte Ltd to collaborate to supply liquefied natural gas and other fuels and develop on-shore and off-shore regasification and storage infrastructure for Bangladesh.
27 April 2023, 18:00 PM
Salt production hits historic high
Salt farming in Bangladesh has reached the highest level this year since commercial production began in the country six decades ago thanks to favourable weather conditions.
27 April 2023, 03:30 AM
Despite lower yields, onion farmers happy as prices rise
Onion prices have been rising following the Eid-ul-Fitr vacation, bringing hope to farmers across Bangladesh who registered lower yields of the crop due to poor weather during winter this year.
27 April 2023, 03:00 AM
NBFIs can’t get more than one director from a single firm
A single company can’t have more than one representative director in the board of a non-bank financial institution (NBFI), said the Bangladesh Bank yesterday.
27 April 2023, 02:30 AM
Export diversification still in slow lane
Bangladesh’s plans aimed at diversifying export baskets are yet to bring about the expected results as the priority sectors are not enjoying most of the benefits promised in the Export Policy for 2021-24, according to entrepreneurs.
27 April 2023, 02:00 AM
MetLife in Fortune’s ‘100 Best Companies to Work For’
MetLife has been named in Fortune magazine’s 2023 list of “100 Best Companies to Work For”.
26 April 2023, 18:00 PM