The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) has filed a case against Banco Securities on discovering a shortfall of Tk 60 crore in its consolidated customers’ account.

IDLC Finance has recently witnessed the appointment of a new chief executive officer (CEO) and managing director (MD).

Recruiting agencies will have to pay higher advance income tax (AIT) on service charges or fees they earn from migrant workers going abroad, according to tax measures proposed by the National Board of Revenue (NBR) for the next fiscal year of 2021-22.

Bangladesh is hurtling to become an aged society, a worrying sign as it will pose challenges to its development aspiration since there will be more elderlies and the days of cheap workers will be over.

Abu Zafore Md Saleh, managing director of Islamic Finance and Investment, has resigned over allegations of breaching rules and regulations in recruiting employees and enjoying financial benefits.

As feared, default loans went up substantially in the first quarter of 2021 after the government partially withdrew the loan moratorium facility, which had prevented downgrading borrowers even if they failed to pay instalments regularly.

The Reserve Bank of India is unlikely to react yet to multi-month high retail prices as economic recovery remains its prime focus amid the deadly second wave of the pandemic, according to two senior sources aware of the central bank’s thinking.

Federal Reserve officials meet this week faced with ongoing tension between their two main goals, as inflation rises faster than expected even with millions of Americans still unemployed more than a year after the onset of the coronavirus pandemic.

India’s antitrust watchdog plans to expedite a restarted probe into allegations of anti-competitive behaviour at Amazon.com Inc and Walmart Inc’s Flipkart, as it intensifies scrutiny of big-tech firms, two people close to the matter said.

The garment makers' platform today urged Switzerland to extend duty-free access to Bangladeshi apparels for 10 years under the Everything but Arms scheme to ensure smooth transition of Bangladesh to a developing country

The country's stock market bounced back today, as investors came out from the profit booking tendency of the last two days.

A series of Covid-19 outbreaks in Thai factories is raising concerns that the export sector could be hit hard, threatening to further undermine an economy as it struggles to recover from the pandemic’s crippling blow to the crucial tourism industry.

The Bankers’ Book Evidence Bill 2021, defining digitally recorded documents as evidence, was placed in parliament yesterday.

A tendency to book profits prevailed among investors in the stock market yesterday, all the while the insurance sector had started soaring again.

Finance minister MHM Mustafa Kamal on June 3 placed his second consecutive national budget at the parliament for fiscal 2021-22, targeting 7.2 per cent annual GDP growth while revising last year’s current growth target to 6.1 per cent from the initial 8.2 per cent estimated amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

Imagine neat rows of vegetable saplings in the thousands growing in a temperature and humidity controlled environment fitted with drip irrigation and free from pests, capable of providing harvests 15 days in advance.

Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi yesterday asked the leaders of the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) to leave their traditional way of thinking and contribute more to trade by modernising the country’s apex trade body.

ACI stocks soared yesterday when news broke that its subsidiary ACI Motors is set to receive Tk 83.99 crore in foreign investment for the expansion of its vehicle manufacturing capacity.

The government should provide at least 80 per cent subsidy to farmers to bring agriculture machinery within their purchasing power.

Global shares held firm near record highs on Monday while US bond yields flirted with three-month lows as investors expect the Federal Reserve to stick to its dovish mantra later this week.