The country’s apex trade body yesterday demanded the removal of complexities businesses face while obtaining and renewing licences with a view to reducing the cost of doing business and making them competitive.

Broad smiles have finally returned to the faces of millions of Bangladesh’s retailers as shoppers have flocked to markets to complete their Eid shopping since the beginning of Ramadan.

Brac Bank signed a memorandum of understanding with mobile operator Robi Axiata to provide digitalised solutions to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to develop their businesses.

The Bangladesh Bank today asked banks to monitor agent banking programme closely by appointing dedicated officials in order to ensure transparency of the operation.

Digital payments can boost Bangladesh’s gross domestic product by 1.7 per cent a year, an addition of $6.2 billion annually to the economy, according to a new report.

The Bangladesh Bank has barred wilful defaulters from enjoying loan waiver facility from banks.

The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) has urged the country's investment development authority to ease the process for obtaining and renewing licences in order to reduce the cost of doing business.

Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) requested the authorities of Sonali, Rupali, Janata and Agrani banks to increase investment in the stock market.

Stocks in Dhaka bourse continued to rise for the third consecutive day today as general investors think that the participation of institutional investors may rise in the market.

Home appliance maker and marketer Singer Bangladesh Ltd saw its profits fall by half in the first quarter of the ongoing calendar year as it had to pay an increased amount of taxes during the period.

bKash is providing essential information and services such as the schedules of iftar and sahri, zakat calculator, payment option for donating zakat to authorised charities, and health tips through its ‘Romjane Protidin’ icon on its app during the fasting month.

Bangladesh Bank will impose special conditions on the import of luxury items, such as high-end cosmetics, apparels and electronics, to discourage these purchases during times of global economic uncertainty, according to Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal.

While salt production has been growing steadily over the years, the farmers in the coastal districts of Chattogram and Cox’s Bazar are apprehensive over whether their meagre profits would get any better.

Removing irregularities from safety net schemes aimed at alleviating poverty could help pull 1.07 crore people out of hardship without spending any additional cost, according to speakers at a webinar.

A Singapore-bound container vessel has remained stranded in the Bay of Bengal for the last seven days on sustaining damage in a collision with an oil tanker, leading to uncertainties over shipment of its cargo.

Bangladesh Bank yesterday asked banks to track shipments of goods which are exported with a view to tackling trade-based money laundering.

Despite offering the scope to legalise black money without asking any questions, the National Board of Revenue (NBR) received very poor responses from taxpayers in the current fiscal year of 2021-22, official figures showed.

When the stock market goes through a bearish trend, the regulator usually prods institutional investors, mostly unofficially, to pour money to revive it and some of them respond positively.  

Coats Bangladesh Ltd recently promoted its manufacturing director to the post of managing director (MD).

Both the DS30, the blue-chip index, and DSES, the Shariah-based index, went up 27 points and 10 points respectively.