Banking & Commodity

Bangladesh Bank (BB) will soon announce another stimulus package of Tk 100 billion to help revive the cottage, micro, small and medium enterprises (CMSMEs) affected by the coronavirus pandemic.

Bangladesh Bank will issue a sukuk next week, the first of its kind in Bangladesh, to raise Tk 8,000 crore for the implementation of a safe water supply project.

The state-run bank did not create loans against the import bills paid in the name of the 11 client between July 2017 and July 30 this year

Bangladesh Bank has purged 36 audit firms from the list of those eligible to audit listed and non-listed banks and financial institutions.

Between July and September, industrial loan disbursement was about 12.9 per cent lower than a year earlier

With the arrival of new batches, onions prices are cooling down in Khulna, thinning the previously seen long queues of people in front of Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) trucks to buy the commodity.

Companies and well-off households are parking funds at banks in the form of deposits despite no return in real terms primarily because of lower investment and consumption caused by the pandemic-induced uncertainties.

In October, all statistics of the banking window hit an all-time high

The people are heaving a sigh of relief as the price of onion has fallen as the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) is offering the item at Tk 23 per kg through e-commerce companies.

As Bangladesh looks forward to graduating out of the least developed country (LDC) status in 2024, it’s increasingly emphasizing on bilateral preferential trade agreement (PTA) and free trade agreement (FTA) to boost its export earnings in the next three to six years.While an FTA stipulates free trade between countries, a …