The initiative co-hosted by the Prime Minister’s Office, IFC and JICA aims to generate investment leads from Japan Around 200 Japanese companies have joined a webinar organized by Bangladesh to attract Japanese investments. The ‘Dialogue to Drive Japanese Investments in Bangladesh’...
Bangladesh Venture Capital has invested an undisclosed amount of money in the seed round of AALO, a digital mediatech startup.  A deal was signed on Monday at the Dhanmondi office of the local alternative investment firm, says a press release. The investor firm's Acting Managing Director Md...
The foreign portfolio investors continued making an exit as they withdrew Tk 1,399 crore from the Bangladesh capital market in the last financial year 2019-20, the highest-ever pull-out amid woes in the country’s financial sector including the stock market, government’s apathy towards the market and global pandemic...
The government has expedited the process of replacing more than 70-year-old foreign exchange regulations in order to attract investments while improving the ease of doing business. The foreign exchange policy and operations in Bangladesh are now governed under the provisions of foreign exchange regulations, 1947, which empowered...
The Bangladesh Security Exchange Commission will help boost the start-up, venture capital and private equity ecosystem in Bangladesh, said its Chairman Shibli Rubayat-Ul-Islam on Wednesday. "We will certainly accommodate relevant changes that are necessary for the venture capital and private equity enterprises," said Islam during a meeting...
Stock exchanges will have to play an active role to ensure the vibrant operations of Alternative Trading Board (ATB) launched to facilitate the growth of non-listed companies and other securities. Discussants said this on Wednesday at an online training programme held to discuss the activities and prospect...
The Bangladesh government is making statements that it is making good and friendly environments for investments in Bangladesh, but the current legal scenario is very different. According to UNCTAD, in the past six years after the signing of the bilateral investment treaty with India in 2009, Bangladesh...
It is certainly not the most exciting element in an economy nor in regards to investment; but, real estate is a reliable contributor to the GDP of a nation and a vital part of its economic growth. Every country needs a flourishing property market that works both...
Policymakers, business leaders and top officials of multinational companies on Sunday demanded long-term tax policy, cut in discretionary power of government officials and predictability in regulations to attract both local and foreign investments. Bangladesh should also quickly roll out policy actions and reforms of long-standing issues that...
The country's business community on Saturday laid stress on a framing of sector-specific investment roadmaps with strategic action plans and comfortable corporate tax to seize the opportunity of investment relocation from China as foreign direct investment (FDI) declined sharply last year. They also urged the government to...