The menace of trade-based money laundering

A recent survey by the Bangladesh Institute of Bank Management (BIBM) revealed that trade-based money laundering in Bangladesh is rising quite fast. The scope for use, or rather misuse, of this channel has reached menacing proportion in recent years in the wake of phenomenal growth of Bangladesh's external trade which...

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BRI advances an alternative vision of globalisation

Once upon a time, everyone assumed that there was a single phenomenon called globalisation, whereby cross-border flows of financial capital drove innovation, industrialisation, development, and trade. But Chinese President Xi Jinping's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) advances an alternative vision of globalisation, based on an integrated system of physical infrastructure....

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