Agribusiness in Bangladesh, including food processing and associated machinery production, has the highest potential among eight emerging sectors, with domestic market sales estimated to reach $8 billion by 2025, according to Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (Bida). 

Midland Bank Limited yesterday launched MDB Digital Loan and MDB Contactless Cards on the day of its 10-year commercial operations in the banking sector of Bangladesh.

Bangladesh Bank today relaxed rules regarding financing availed by commercial importers to cater to cottage, micro, small and medium enterprises (SMEs)

The facility will support the borrowers struggling to pay back loans amid lingering crisis at home and abroad

Sugar refiners' proposal to hike sugar prices unreasonable, it says

The Secure Transactions of (Moveable Assets) Bill 2023 placed at the parliament

It made the call in a meeting at the PMO

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina asked the authorities concerned at Ecnec meeting

This company will produce 10 million pieces of different kind of boxes for packaging like paper boxes, jewelry boxes, jewelry bag, watch boxes, and gift boxes, according to a press release.

The DSEX, the benchmark index of the bourse in Bangladesh, inched up 6 points, or 0.10 per cent, to 6,320 at 11:00 am.

Like in the outgoing financial year, the common people in Bangladesh will continue to suffer from higher consumer prices in 2023-24 as the factors behind the elevated level of inflation are unlikely to change dramatically.

The government should allow more private companies to build effluent treatment plants (ETPs) inside Savar Tannery Industrial Estate (STIE), said Shaheen Ahmed, chairman of Bangladesh Tanners Association (BTA), yesterday.

The new interest rate-setting method introduced by the central bank is going to benefit depositors as well as people who take consumer loans. 

Microfinance institutions (MFIs) will have to pay taxes from fiscal year 2023-24 if they do not keep their income from service charges in a revolving fund.

The board of Islami Bank Bangladesh Ltd (IBBL) yesterday elected Ahsanul Alam as the chairman of the shariah-based lender.

Bangladesh considers the United Kingdom (UK) as an important export destination and it is time for diversifying the export basket, as the bilateral trade is currently concentrated on a few specific items, FBCCI President Md Jashim Uddin said today.

Pran Agro is going to raise funds of Tk 262.5 crore form institutional investors and high-net worth people by issuing bonds.

Noted economist Prof Nurul Islam’s contribution to the independence of Bangladesh and nation building after independence was remarkable as he played a role in diagnosing the disparity between the then East Pakistan and West Pakistan, launch the first five-year plan and enlist Bangladesh as a least developed country (LDC), said economists. 

Pubali Bank Limited has recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Bproperty at the bank’s head office in Dhaka.

A new feature styled “Auto Pay” has recently been added to bKash app’s Send Money service to make it more convenient for users.