Fahim Chowdhury

On July 21, a fire during a ship-to-ship transfer damaged the cabling on one boiler aboard a leased floating terminal off Moheshkhali.

At a meeting on alternative financing chaired by Finance Minister Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury on June 20, the Bangladesh Bank governor proposed that the country’s first international sovereign bond should be a $50 million panda bond in China’s onshore market.

Bangladesh’s expatriates sent home a record $35.56 billion in the fiscal year just ended, up 17.3 percent on the previous year.

The cushion of cheap, long-dated official credit that has spared Bangladesh the discipline of markets is shrinking, with no channel ready for when it runs thin

When SpaceX sold shares to the public on Nasdaq on June 12, it became the largest initial public offering in history, raising about $75 billion at a valuation of $1.77 trillion. The size is what draws attention. What should interest Dhaka is the calendar: the company had been private for almost a quarter of a century before that morning.

In the first days of March, Petrobangla went looking for an emergency cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG), and no seller would bid.

Fitch Ratings revised Bangladesh’s sovereign outlook to “Negative” from “Stable” on May 13 while affirming the long-term rating at B+. The announcement framed this as Middle East exposure.

Finance Minister Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury, in April, told parliament that the next two years would be difficult and that many measures might not be popular. The FY27 arithmetic is familiar: Tk 9.30 lakh crore in spending against a Tk 2.35 lakh crore deficit, an NBR shortfall nearing Tk 98,000 crore, a 6.8 percent tax-to-GDP ratio and rising borrowing on a debt path that tightens FY28 and FY29.