DSE launches market app
The country's premier stockmarket yesterday launched a mobile app to disseminate market data to investors and other members of the financial community.
State Minister for ICT Junaid Ahmed Palak inaugurated the Dhaka Stock Exchange's application -- DSE Info -- which operates on android devices and will be upgraded for iOS and other platforms later. The app is available on Google Play Store and offers features to help users track the indices and get market and company information.
The app's features include market and trading statistics in real time, company information, portfolio information and company news.
The ICT Division and the DSE developed the app jointly.
Addressing the function at the DSE, Palak said the ICT Division is interested to develop another app that will allow investors to trade through their mobile devices from anywhere.
Palak said Bangladesh's ICT exports stand at $300 million a year, from just $26 million six years ago. Bangladesh aims to take ICT exports to $1 billion by 2018 and $3 billion by 2021.
Palak urged the DSE to take initiatives so that start-ups and small and medium-scale companies can raise funds from the stockmarket.
Helal Uddin Nizami, a commissioner of Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission, and Swapan Kumar Bala, managing director of the DSE, also spoke.
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