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-- 2017-11-08 12:00:00
Banks in the country are gradually expanding agent banking activities across the country as the number of accounts has already crossed 1.0 millon. According to the Bangladesh Bank (BB) quarterly data...
FE Online Desk 2017-11-08 11:33:56
A meeting between bankers and SME entrepreneurs was held at Amrit Lal Dey conference center in Barisal recently. Islami Bank Bangladesh Ltd (IBBL) arranged the event, supervised by Bangladesh Bank, sa...
-- 2017-11-08 11:04:19
The government has honoured 84 families from 64 districts for paying highest amount of taxes in fiscal 2016-17. The families have got the ‘Kor Bahadur’ title for their contributions to na...
Munima Sultana 2017-11-08 09:48:04
More than a year after the Chinese president laid the foundation stone, the construction work of the country's first tunnel under the Karnaphuli river is yet to start as Chinese Exim Bank has not yet...
-- 2017-11-08 02:18:33
China’s trade surplus with the United States fell in October to $26.62 billion from $28.08 billion in September, according to data from China’s customs administration on Wednesday. The su...
BBC 2017-11-07 12:00:00
The world's most profitable firm has a secretive new structure that would enable it to continue avoiding billions in taxes, the Paradise Papers show. They reveal how Apple sidestepped a 2013 crackdow...
-- 2017-11-07 11:01:05
The Law Minister-led investigation committee could not yet submit report although about 15 months have elapsed since its formation to look into whether there was any irregularity in the tender process...
FE Online Report 2017-11-07 10:46:05
The central bank has circulated a ‘Code of Conduct’ for all banks and non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) of the country with effect from January 1. All banks and financial institutio...
-- 2017-11-07 04:34:11
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) on Tuesday approved the 'Smaller water resources development (2nd phase)' project, aiming to boost agricultural production and thus inc...
BBC 2017-11-06 12:00:00
A huge new leak of financial documents has revealed how the powerful and ultra-wealthy, including the Queen's private estate, secretly invest vast amounts of cash in offshore tax havens. Donald Trump...
FE Online Desk 2017-11-06 12:00:00
Capital market investors can now buy and sell government securities through the Dhaka Stock Exchange in a development that is expected to make the country's bond market active. The decision came at...
FE Online Report 2017-11-06 12:00:00
During the first half of the current calendar year, some 163 Bangladeshi citizens availed the long-term residency in Malaysia under the Malaysia My Second Home (MM2H) programme. Statistics released b...
FE Online Report 2017-11-06 12:00:00
Economic growth measures the performance of an economy. But to what extent do the available data on commercial activities genuinely represent a nation's performance? Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is...
-- 2017-11-06 12:00:00
The central bank has asked the mobile banking customers not to keep more than Tk 300,000 in their accounts with effect from January next year. The Bangladesh Bank fixed the ceiling on Monday with an...
Rezaul Karim 2017-11-06 10:26:24
Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) moves to borrow US$ 700 million from International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) to import fuel oils for the calendar year 2018, officials said. The...
'The nat’l carrier earns $30-35m a year from ground handling' 2017-11-06 06:37:34
Biman Bangladesh Airlines' move to have a partner for ground handling activities at the country's airports is yet to see any tangible progress although nearly two years have already elapsed. When ask...
-- 2017-11-06 06:30:38
Investment proposals rose by 140 per cent during July-September period this year, according to the latest data of the Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA). During that period, BIDA rece...
-- 2017-11-06 03:24:32
German industrial orders rose unexpectedly in September, driven by strong demand for machines, cars and other capital goods, data showed on Monday. The data from the Economy Ministry also suggesting...
-- 2017-11-06 03:16:06
Growth in Italy’s service sector slowed for a third straight month in October, a survey showed on Monday, a sign a recent flurry in economic activity may be petering out. The Markit/ADACI Busin...
-- 2017-11-06 01:53:56
US President Donald Trump has lashed out at Japan over trade and said he would push for a fairer economic relationship between the two countries. Speaking to business leaders in Tokyo on Monday he sa...
FE Online Report 2017-11-05 12:00:00
Country’s merchandise trade gap with the rest of the world surged to $3.65 billion in the first quarter (Q1) of the current fiscal year (FY18). Statistics released by the central bank on Sunday...
-- 2017-11-05 12:00:00
China sees a good prospect in electricity sharing by Bangladesh and Myanmar in the future through grid interconnection transmitting clean hydropower from China's Yunnan Province. A senior official of...
-- 2017-11-05 12:00:00
Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Rashed Khan Menon Sunday urged the private sector to invest in the tourism sector of the country. Menon told the private sector to consider building resorts and m...
FE Online Desk 2017-11-05 10:21:21
The Danish company Novozymes, the world leader in biological solutions for wet processing, awarded textile manufacturers contributing to sustainable production in Bangladesh, said a statement....
-- 2017-11-05 06:31:12
The government has taken an initiative to send nearly 100,000 drivers abroad in the next five years for their increased demands in different countries across the globe. Expatriates' Welfa...
FE Report 2017-11-04 12:25:28
The Income Tax Fair 2017 in the capital drew a huge number of visitors on Friday, the third day of the weeklong event, as it was a public holiday. Most of the people visiting the fair on the day we...
Reuters 2017-11-04 12:00:00
Following are five big themes likely to dominate thinking of investors and traders in the coming week and the Reuters stories related to them. 1/TRUMP ON TOUR US President Donald Trump embarks on hi...
-- 2017-11-04 12:00:00
Bangladesh Fisheries Research Institute (BFRI) has been carrying out intensive research to breed Hilsha in the hatchery using artificial methods. The methods, which include producing larvae fro...
-- 2017-11-04 11:56:58
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has given Venezuela six months to improve the flow of economic data saying it had violated IMF rules on the timely provision of some statistics. The Fund said...
FHM Humayan Kabir 2017-11-04 10:06:55
The much-cherished softest lending by Japan is all over as the donor has hiked the interest rate to 1.0 per cent from 0.01 per cent for Bangladesh, officials said. The Asian economic powerhouse has a...
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