Industry Desk: The government has announced a six-point reform programme, including the enhancement of capital base for streamlining the country’s banking sector. Under the reform package in... Read more

Staff Correspondent: Bangladesh registered a record level growth in foreign direct investment while FDI flows to South Asia increased by a modest 3.5 percent in 2018, according to a UN repor... Read more

Staff Correspondent: Describing the sector wise allocations in proposed budget for the next fiscal as ‘unbalanced and inconsistent’, private think tank Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) said... Read more

Staff Correspondent: Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal in his budget speech today proposed to implement the Value Added Tax and Supplementary Duty Act, 2012 from July 1, 2019. “We are... Read more

Staff Correspondent: Country’s foreign exchange reserve has now stood at US$ 33 billion. Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal came up with the statistics while placing the national budge... Read more

Staff Correspondent: The government slashed its bank borrowing target by 26.46 per cent for the outgoing fiscal year (FY), mainly due to the lower implementation of the annual development pr... Read more

Govt discusses establishing Bank Commission for discipline in banking sector Staff Correspondent: Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has suggested a number of reforms to bring back disciplin... Read more