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Despite a sharp fall in global trade in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic and lingering trade tensions, Asia and the Pacific is expected to perform relatively “less bad” than the rest of the world, the United Nations development arm in the region said on Tuesday.

The Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) has revised its Shariah Index on the basis of performance of the CSE listed companies.

The construction of key facilities at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Hi-Tech Park in the northern education city of Rajshahi is set to finish by next year.

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

Agriculture Minister Dr Muhammad Abdur Razzaque said, Bangladesh will appreciate if India removes export barrier of seeds.He made these call at a discussion titled ‘India Bangladesh Digital Conference on Agriculture Sector followed by B2B Session held virtually on Tuesday. The conference was jointly organized by Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of …

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

Steel prices jumped 17 per cent in the last one month as millers hiked the rates in the wake of spiralling scrap prices in the international market, which will make the implementation of public construction projects and home building costlier.

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

Finds study by pi STRATEGY The digital financial services (DFS) helped limit the spread of coronavirus to some extent by creating an avenue for digital payments that facilitated social distancing protocols, found a recent study by pi STRATEGY. The study entailed surveying more than 1,000 people across Bangladesh and interviewing …