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Prime Bank’s bet on own model pays off

2025-01-20 00:00:00

AGENT BANKING-2025

Question (Q) : Agent banking is now being considered as a cost-effective banking approach, particularly in the least developed areas. Could you please explain the...

How banking innovation upends disparate male-female equations

2025-01-20 00:00:00

AGENT BANKING-2025

Villagers used to depend on usurers and thereafter on NGOs for small moneys. Gonna are the days of those moneylenders. Agent banking makes inroads and...

‘Bank Asia progressing with a goal in sight’

2025-01-20 00:00:00

AGENT BANKING-2025

Question (Q): Agent banking is now being considered as a cost-effective banking approach particularly in the least developed areas. Could you please explain the journey...

‘Agent banking path strewn with challenges’

2025-01-20 00:00:00

AGENT BANKING-2025

Question (Q): Agent banking is now being considered as a cost-effective banking approach, particularly in the least developed areas. Could you please explain the journey...

Agent banking augurs well as a rural game-changer

2025-01-20 00:00:00

AGENT BANKING-2025

Even during the 1980s, many relatives of Bangladeshi expatriates had to travel to Dhaka to withdraw remittances from Sonali Bank's foreign-exchange branch in Dilkusha. Imagine...

Jubilant people celebrate Hasina's ouster as PM

2024-12-31 00:00:00

2024 THE YEAR IN RETROSPECT

The curtain draws on yet another Gregorian calendar year-2024 at the midnight today (Tuesday). That the year has been an eventful one for Bangladesh and...

Those we lost in 2024

2024-12-31 00:00:00

2024 THE YEAR IN RETROSPECT

Veteran journalist Sayed Kamaluddin, editor of the weekly Holiday, passed away at a city hospital on March 5. He was 85.Kamaluddin joined Holiday in 2005....

A Year of Global Shifts and Turmoil

2024-12-31 00:00:00

2024 THE YEAR IN RETROSPECT

Trump makes a strong comebackAfter surviving two assassination attempts, Donald Trump made a comeback in the 2024 election, regaining the US presidency. Having defeated his...

Country's bond market deserves priority attention

2024-12-24 12:00:00

THE EVOLUTION OF BOND MARKET IN BANGLADESH

PANELISTS Mr. Shamsul Huq ZahidEditor and CEOThe Financial ExpressEvent ChairMs. Farzana LalarukhCommissionerBangladesh Securities Exchange CommissionChief GuestDr. Najmus SaydatJt SecretaryFinancial Institution DivisionMinistry of FinanceMr. Istequemal HussainDirector,...

'Hajar bochhor pore abar eshechhi phire'

2024-12-16 00:00:00

VICTORY DAY 2024

This morning we celebrate the year 1971. The middle-aged citizen of today is no more the youth of yesterday. The freedom we enjoy in these...

Resistance at Feni during the Liberation War

2024-12-16 00:00:00

VICTORY DAY 2024

The present-day Feni district was a subdivision under Noakhali district during the liberation war. It had a huge strategic importance during the war, as both...

Mega Concerns of Megaprojects

2024-12-03 00:00:00

White Paper on State of the Bangladesh Economy

There is no doubt that public infrastructure system that includes transport links, power and energy, telecommunications, digital networks, water and sanitation, and social services, such...

Power and Energy Sector – A System Designed for Corruption

2024-12-03 00:00:00

White Paper on State of the Bangladesh Economy

Bangladesh is a Low-Emitting Energy Poor (LEEP) country, with a per capita energy consumption of just 465 kWh (Kilowatt hour) per year, compared to the...

Public Investment: The Roots of Corruption

2024-12-03 00:00:00

White Paper on State of the Bangladesh Economy

In countries like Bangladesh ensuring the availability and quality of public goods is vital for sustainable economic growth. Essential services such as infrastructure, education, healthcare,...

The Malignancy of Illicit Financial Outflows-

2024-12-02 12:00:00

White Paper on State of the Bangladesh Economy

Rationale of the Exercise and Magnitude of ConcernOver the recent past years, illicit financial outflows have emerged as an alarmingly growing phenomenon in Bangladesh, a...

A fresh channel of feeding into depleting forex purse

2024-08-04 00:00:00

OFFSHORE BANKING

A refurbished framework of offshore banking raises hope for repleting Bangladesh's depleting foreign-exchange reserves as commercial banks started enjoying good response, especially from the countries...