Feda Al Hossain

Conventional banks continued to dominate remittance inflows between November 2023 and November 2025, even as Islamic banks recorded a noticeable recovery in market share over the past year, according to a recent Bangladesh Bank (BB) report.

Readers showed curiosity that cut across policy, pocketbook and people

People are buying more again, but high inflation, costly raw material imports and political uncertainty continue to weigh on earnings

High returns from treasury bills lift profits despite rough market

For Bangladesh, supply disruptions of rare earths could raise global component prices

Chairman Hossain Khaled says in an interview with The Daily Star

Bangladeshi nationals spent the most on credit cards in the United States, debit cards in the United Kingdom, and prepaid cards in Saudi Arabia in June this year, according to a recent report by Bangladesh Bank.

The gap between wages and inflation, which has been narrowing gradually since February 2025, shrank further in the fourth quarter of fiscal year (FY) 2024-25, offering a slight boost to household purchasing power, the central bank said in a report released this week.