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Planning Minister MA Mannan yesterday urged the international community to find a permanent solution to the Rohingya crisis. He said the recent influx of more than one million Rohingyas from Myanmar was a considerable stress on Bangladesh’s development efforts. “I call upon the international community to come forward in support …

Growing demand by Asia’s rich for independent advisory services and access to a wide variety of investment products is spurring the surge of boutique wealth managers more associated with the established wealth hubs of Switzerland and London. The boutiques, or so-called external asset managers (EAMs), mainly tap small-and-mid-level business owners …

India’s slowing economic growth is of serious concern and the country needs to urgently cut tax and interest rates to revive the economy, a top industrial body said on Monday ahead of the inauguration of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s second term. The economy grew 6.6 percent in the three months …

Local e-commerce platform Sindabad.com has received $4.15 million from Aavishkaar Frontier Fund (AFF), a venture fund managed by Aavishkaar, a leading Asian impact investment company, in order to fine-tune and scale up its business. Sindabad, the country’s first business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce platform, is a concern of Zero Gravity Ventures Ltd …

The inflow of remittances amounted to $1350.57 million from May 1 to May 24, according to the Bangladesh Bank latest data The country received $1.35 billion in remittances in the first 24 days of the current month as Bangladeshi expatriates sent home a higher amount of money ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr. …