Digital bank vs digital banking: Competing to bank the unbanked
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Last week, a friend called after learning that Bangladesh Bank had given initial approval to five digital banks, including bKash Digital Bank, Boost backed by Robi Axiata, Nova backed by VEON and Square, DK Digital Bank and Kori, approved under the earlier political regime.
8 HOUR(s)
Remembering M Saifur Rahman: A change driver
27 September 2026
Some knew M Saifur Rahman much better than I did. Some sat across the cabinet table with him. Others learned from him at a respectful distance.
27 September 2026
What did I learn from Citi and PwC?
20 September 2026
Citi and PwC taught me different things, but the most important lessons from both institutions were surprisingly similar.
20 September 2026
What did I learn from Citi and PwC?
19 September 2026
Citi and PwC taught me different things, but the most important lessons from both institutions were surprisingly similar. Whether you are running a bank, advising a business or leading a team, you are ultimately dealing with the same thing: trust. It takes years to build, but only moments to lose
19 September 2026
How Bangladesh can improve economic research
13 September 2026
Bangladesh produces no shortage of economic reports, research papers and policy recommendations.
13 September 2026
What the ‘Big Four’ bring to Bangladesh
30 August 2026
There is a simple question worth asking about Deloitte, PwC, EY and KPMG, the firms we call the “Big Four”. How have they lasted this long?
30 August 2026
From stability to growth
23 August 2026
Bangladesh has completed the first 180 days under the new government with a mixed record. The external sector has improved, with stronger remittances and reserves.
23 August 2026
Future of accounting
16 August 2026
Not long ago, the finance team in a company would have spent the week buried in paper, chasing invoices and posting entries by hand.
16 August 2026
A business leader of incorruptible integrity
I received a short message on my phone just before noon on July 1 but could not notice it properly due to office work.
3 July 2020
Financial inclusion: Banking going beyond banks
Despite a lot of loud discussions regarding financial inclusion, a large number of people in Bangladesh are far from being granted access to basic financial services, making financial inclusion development an essential project in the country.
17 February 2020
Revamping Bangladesh’s insurance sector
As Bangladesh has covered considerable ground into achieving the coveted middle-income country status, a robust insurance sector will be vital in consolidating the growth story.
5 February 2020
Preparing for post LIBOR era
A few weeks back, I attended a financial sector specialist meet at New York. Apart from rapid technology transformation issues, a major discussion took place about transitioning from LIBOR to a new order, popularly termed as IBOR or Inter-bank Offered Rate, to shift the power from traders to finance or independent units for rate fixation.
29 January 2020
Should Bangladesh copy Aadhaar?
Aadhaar is a one-time identity card issued by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) free of cost for all residents of India, making it the world’s largest biometric identification programme.
18 January 2020
Future of finance hinges on understanding of data
It is being discussed in the corridors that the accounting or finance profession is going to be most impacted in the era of artificial intelligence and machine learning. We also know that the global job markets are likely to take a 360 degree shift with the advent of data driven economy.
2 December 2019
How independent should the central bank be?
Today, much of the developed world’s central banks are built after the “Bundesbank model.”
11 September 2019
Combating fraud in banks
Banking as a sector has always been an attractive target of fraud and embezzlement due to the abundance of cash resources it
16 February 2019