Banking & Commodity

The prices of soya bean oil have increased up to Tk 130 a litre on the kitchen markets as the prices of the edible oil rose up to Tk 20 a litre in the last one month.

The falling prices of onion amid continuous import of the cooking ingredient in the local harvesting season have frustrated farmers.

The government is likely to allocate Tk 148 billion for new stimulus packages in 2021-22 fiscal to fend off the impact of coronavirus pandemic.

The government is eager to allow the import of environment-friendly plastic scrap items which do not put any adverse impacts on the domestic industry and the environment.

Sale of winter clothes is gearing up in the capital city’s markets and elsewhere in the country as the mercury has started falling at the advent of winter.

The pandemic simply exacerbated the sector’s woes, leaving it tottering now

2020 was the year in which the country’s central bank displayed its nous

The number of active accounts with mobile financial service providers dropped by almost 19 per cent in just one month despite the huge popularity of mobile financial services.

If extended, the industry, as well as the economy, could strongly recover from the pandemic’s fallout, said the letter dated December 22 from BCMA to BB

The Microcredit Regulatory Authority (MRA) asked the microfinance institutions (MFIs) to provision one per cent fund on total loan loss.