Dhaka January 22, 2026, 4:30 am
Mr Islam was talking to the media at his office in the capital on Tuesday, the last day of his tenure in the government agency.
Money sent home by expatriate Bangladeshis amounted to over US$3.0 billion in the two months to August, boosted by increased flow on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha.
The government will restrict foreign currency purchases following a sharp drop in the peso.
"We want to bring it (bank loan interest rate) down to single digit. In the meantime, we've taken appropriate measurers so that investment becomes easier," she said while handing over the prestigious National Export Trophy in
They said any policy change made through wrong analysis could hamper government's revenue mobilisation while creating unfavourable business climate.
India’s economy grew at its weakest pace since 2013 between April and June as consumer demand and government spending slowed amid global trade frictions, raising chances of the central bank cutting interest rates further at i
Finance minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said on Wednesday the compound interest rate of bank loans is not feasible in modern times.
Profitability of the country's banks has declined by around 17 per cent over the last 10 years, mainly due to growth in the volume of bad loans.
India's central goverment has offered the country's federal government a payout of 24.5 billion US dollars that include $17.1 billion of surplus and $7.4 billion of excess contingency provision lying in books of the central b
The government will not refinance the state-owned commercial banks -- Sonali Bank Ltd, Rupali Bank Ltd, Agrani Bank Ltd and Janata Bank Ltd -- anymore to address their capital crunch.
US President Donald Trump on Friday lashed back at a new round of Chinese tariffs by heaping an additional 5.0 per cent duty on some $550 billion in targeted Chinese goods in the latest tit-for-tat trade war escalation by the
The Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) has launched an innovative campaign across the country to bring out potential entrepreneurs for fostering investments and generating jobs
The first month of the current fiscal year 2019-20, July registered 1.84 percent implementation of the Annual Development Programme (ADP).
A US$500 million fund is likely to be created with contributions from the government, bourses, banks and financial institutions to invest in various infrastructures, officials said.
The country's merchandise trade deficit with the rest of the world narrowed in the past fiscal year (FY'19), despite slight rise in imports, the central bank said on Monday.
A number of U.S. business economists appear sufficiently concerned about the risks of some of President Donald Trump's economic policies that they expect a recession in the U.S. by the end of 2021.
Korea has shown interest to invest in 10 public-private partnership (PPP) projects in the aviation, rail and power sectors under government-to-government arrangements.
All the 59 commercial banks are likely to be allowed to handle "challan" that serves as the biggest instrument of submitting money to the public exchequer.
The government has targeted $45.50-billion earnings from merchandise exports in fiscal year (FY) 2019-20, projecting 12.25 per cent growth over that of the last fiscal.
The Planning Commission (PC) is going to be tough on the public agencies which revise their development projects repeatedly.
