LankaBangla Finance has received a foreign loan of $15 million from Luxembourg-based BlueOrchard Microfinance Fund.

The stock market took a dip yesterday due the profit booking tendency among investors.

Private sector credit growth has been sluggish, capital machinery imports declined, and industrial production grew slower in the outgoing fiscal year than a year ago.

DataBird, a Bangladeshi company having products across online travel, news, keyboard, eReader and lifestyle mobile applications, in association with The Daily Star is organising a competition to find unique ideas to use technology in solving the country’s problems.

The government has amended the Customs Act, doubling the penalty for providing incorrect information in import and export documents even though wrong declarations do not lead to any duty evasion.

City Bank yesterday witnessed the reelection of the chairman and vice chairman of its Board of Directors. Aziz Al Kaiser and Hossain Khaled are both sponsor directors, said a press release.

The 20-year tax-exemption support announced in the proposed budget will definitely take Bangladesh’s growing automobile industry to an impressive stage and promote local manufacturing, according to industry insiders.

A landmark deal to reform corporate tax payments proposed by the Group of Seven on Saturday will not unfairly benefit the United States, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development said on Monday.

Investor morale in the euro zone rose for the fourth month in a row in June, reaching its highest level since February 2018, lifted by reopening restaurants and tourism resuming as coronavirus cases fall, a survey showed on Monday.

The stock market regulator today approved the amalgamation of Bangladesh Steel Re-Rolling Mills (BSRM) Ltd and its sister concern BSRM Steel Mills Ltd.

Alphabet's Google agreed to make changes to some of its widely-used online advertising services under an unprecedented settlement with France's antitrust watchdog released on Monday.

The stock market fell today thanks to the profit booking tendency of the investors.

The Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority (BEPZA) has signed a couple of lease agreements, worth about US$12 million, with two foreign companies recently.

The Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Bangladesh (ICMAB) thinks there are some inconsistencies in the present laws on value-added tax and income tax.

China's imports grew at their fastest pace in 10 years in May, fuelled by surging demand for raw materials, although export growth slowed more than expected, weighed by disruptions caused by COVID-19 cases at the country's major southern ports.

Bangladesh Bank has instructed banks to keep their doors open for customers from 10:00am to 3:00pm until June 16.

The Real Estate and Housing Association of Bangladesh (REHAB) has demanded the provision of a long-term low interest fund in the proposed national budget for fiscal 2021-22 so that the country’s people can purchase their own homes on instalments equivalent to rent.

Textile millers yesterday demanded the withdrawal of value-added tax (VAT) and import duty on all kinds of manmade fibre for the potential growth of the non-cotton fashion industry to meet the global demand.

The government should ensure that stimulus funds for the cottage, micro, small and medium enterprises (CMSMEs) are quickly disbursed in order to facilitate sustainable recovery from the Covid-19 fallouts, according to speakers at a webinar yesterday.

The proposed budget has failed to offer fiscal measures to create jobs crucial to millions of the people in the informal sector who slipped to poverty because of the coronavirus pandemic, said experts yesterday.