No treasury bill and bond was traded on the country’s stock exchanges today on the first day of commencement of their trading on the bourses due to a technical problem.

Bangladeshi investors should invest more in Kosovo to expand the south Asian country’s export market in the landlocked nation, Rizwan Rahman, president of Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI), said today.

Bangladesh Bank today asked banks to draw up citizen charter such that clients will be able to get financial services smoothly.

Stocks in Bangladesh slid today due to the selling trend among investors following the Bangladesh Bank’s decision to reduce the repo rate by 25 basis points to contain inflation.

City Bank launched its first-ever Shariah-based savings scheme City Islamic DPS Savings today.

The port city bourse’s prime index was 1.5 per cent down from the previous day to 11,413 points as of 1.43 pm.

DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), fell 1.18 per cent to 6,495.7 points as of 1.20 pm today.

At the time of its denationalisation in 1984, Pubali Bank’s defaulted loans were more than 50 per cent owing to a lack of corporate governance. 

Employers in Bangladesh required nine out of the last 10 jobseekers they hired in the past five years to possess at least basic digital literacy and skills, found an Asian Development Bank (ADB) and LinkedIn survey.  

The growing number of people from Bangladesh registering for work overseas indicates that international migration from the country may soon surpass pre-pandemic levels, according to a recent report by the World Bank.

The knitwear segment has retained its position as the country’s biggest export earner in the readymade garment industry and among all the sectors of Bangladesh. 

 Two out of three lightweight plastic items used in Bangladesh end up mismanaged, mostly due to a lack of source segregation and household collection infrastructure, said an expert yesterday. 

Meghna Bank has launched the “Meghna Unnoyon”, a collateral-free loan for cottage, micro and small entrepreneurs.

Major challenges for sustainable marine fishing include the lack of proper monitoring and control while ensuring quality fish feed at reasonable prices is needed to develop aquaculture in the country, according to Dr Md Sharif Uddin, director (marine) of the Department of Fisheries (DoF). 

Chery Automobile Company Ltd, a partner of Jaguar Land Rover, started its operations in Bangladesh through Asian MotorspeX Ltd, a subsidiary of Asian Holdings.

A group of e-commerce platforms is going to jointly organise an online shopping campaign named “The 10-10 Festival” that will kick off on Monday.

After a two-year gap for the pandemic, an annual National Furniture Fair kicked off in Dhaka last Thursday with manufacturers trying to woo customers with free home deliveries and discounts of 10 per cent to 25 per cent. 

Sea fishers recently urged the government to ensure that imported fish undergo certain tests apart from those related to checking for the presence of health-hazardous chemicals, namely formalin.

Unilever Bangladesh launched the 13th edition of BizMaestros, one of the most awaited business case competitions among the country’s top graduates.

A mobile app and game testing lab was inaugurated at Bangladesh University of Business and Technology (BUBT) at Mirpur in a bid to make students more specialised in development of mobile and gaming apps.