Prime Bank recently launched Japan Desk, a one-stop solution centre, in order to facilitate cross-border business initiatives and investments between Japan and Bangladesh.

Trade between Bangladesh and India through Benapole land port will remain closed for four days on the occasion of Durga Puja.

Developed countries are already reaping the 4th industrial revolution’s (4IR) benefits whereas Bangladesh is still at its primary stage, necessitating prompt utilisation of the country’s current demographic dividend alongside the productivity of youths, said speakers at a programme yesterday. 

Chinese local governments may relax the floor on mortgage rates for first-time home buyers in some cities in phases, the central bank said on Thursday, in a bid to prop up property prices and revive a flagging engine of the world’s second-largest economy.

HSBC Bangladesh recently signed an agreement with DBL Group on host-to-host (H2H) integration solution.

Scam-hit International Leasing & Financial Services Ltd (ILFSL) has kept losing money as it made losses in the first half of 2022. 

Apex Footwear Limited’s profit jumped more than 31 per cent year-on-year in the financial year that ended on June 30, 2022. 

Whether it is semi-controlled or self-censored media, corridor discussions or even Transparency International Bangladesh reports, we have been hearing about corruption in the public enterprises and inaction by the subsequent governments for the last many years.  

Businesspeople are frustrated with a section of government officials who harass them when they try to obtain trade licences, and cause delays in releasing goods from ports and renewal of trade documents.

The Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) rose today, extending the gains to the third straight session.

The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) rose for the third consecutive day today.

The mobile financial service (MFS) sector in Bangladesh has been on a tear, with the number of accounts surpassing the 18-crore mark for the first time in July. 

Although banks are registering increased deposits, tax collection from interest earnings of savers has slowed down significantly amid the fall of the interest rate.

School banking is increasingly gaining popularity among students, exemplified by total deposits in such accounts surpassing Tk 2,300 crore in July despite ongoing economic hurdles such as rising inflation. 

Bangladesh is poised to overtake China in garment exports to Europe, the world’s largest market, anytime in the near future for work orders shifting its way and its price competitiveness. 

The number of Bangladeshi workers who headed to the Middle East countries in search of jobs surged 177 per cent year-on-year in the first eight months of 2022, official figures showed.    

The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) along with Bangladesh Investment Development Authority has inspected some 5,200 local factories in the last year to ensure workplace safety.

The current low revenue base in Bangladesh could be further undermined by the measures taken in the budget for FY2023, including corporate tax cuts, American credit rating agency Fitch said in its latest report.

Concord Entertainment Company and Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority (Bepza) recently signed a memorandum of understanding.

Homogenous policy supports throughout the agriculture sector, instead of providing advantages to just growing crops, can substantially bring down egg and meat prices for end-consumers, said entrepreneurs.