দেশের ব্যাংকিং খাত নিয়ে নানামুখী
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Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (BEZA) has received investment proposals amounting to around 20.50 billion US Dollar from 151 local and foreign business entities thanks to various steps of government to attract new investments, officials said. BEZA is responsible for establishing and managing of state-run special economic zones...
The private sector credit growth declined to 9.2 per cent in January amid heavy government borrowing from the banking sector and the government’s move to cut lending rate for banks to 9 per cent. The private sector credit growth in all the seven months of the fiscal...
Continued mismatch or value gap in reported bilateral trade of Bangladesh with the rest of the world has indicated that trade misinvoicing is persisting there. The latest report of the Global Financial Integrity (GFI), a Washington-based research organisation, estimated the value gap of 135 developing countries including...
Bangladesh's technology start-ups are catching the attention of venture capital (VC) firms, which have put in about $200 million in funding over the last four years, said ICT State Minister Zunaid Ahmed Palak yesterday "The more the start-up ecosystem is maturing, the more the venture capital funding...
Food inflation fell to a 42-month low of 4.97 per cent in February, helped by easing off pressures on some items such as rice and onions in recent months, official figures showed yesterday. As a result, overall inflation dropped to a 12-month low of 5.46 per cent...
The National Board of Revenue, or NBR, has reached a consensus over offering a string of tax incentives to promote long-term debt market in Bangladesh. The incentives include withdrawal of upfront tax on debt securities, tax at source on trading stage of such tools and waiver...
Employment growth in the manufacturing sector has decelerated in recent years, accelerated by investment in higher productivity, according to an economist. Rizwanul Islam, visiting senior fellow of the Centre for Development and Employment Research, said the establishment of larger or medium-sized industrial units was on the rise,...
The Investment Corporation of Bangladesh, or ICB, has requested the government to cut interest rate on term deposits it took from banks to support the stock market. Presently, the corporation has some Tk 106.71 billion in costlier deposits it took on various occasions, bearing interest rate ranging...
Local electronics giant Walton is, arguably, going through a purple patch. For instance, earlier this week, it flagged off shipments of 26,000 air conditioners to India's Hyundai and also inaugurated its sprawling lift manufacturing plant, both of which are firsts for Bangladesh. There appears to be no...