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Who should be a bank CEO?

Future CEOs should combine financial prudence with tech and data

How to choose a good bank

A good bank ensures quality of loans (assets) by selecting the right borrowers, sanctioning loans to various sectors in different sizes, and keeping collateral.

Key reforms needed to salvage the banking sector

The banking industry as a business is inherently risky.

Banks’ surging investments in bills, bonds shrink loanable funds

Banks in Bangladesh are increasing their investments in Treasury bills and bonds to net higher profits from the rising interest rate, a development that has squeezed the availability of loans for borrowers.

DBBL, Bank Asia advance despite market fall in early trade 

Shares of most companies fell in the morning trade on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), extending a losing streak for the fourth day.

MJL to double stakes in Prime Bank

MJL Bangladesh, one of the nation’s leading lubricants companies, is going to buy 2.20 crore shares of Prime Bank in order to increase its stake in the lender.

Bancassurance: a win-win solution for Bangladesh

With a gross domestic product growth rate of nearly 5.8 percent in 2023, Bangladesh is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. Driving Bangladesh’s prospects is our extremely active domestic consumer market, which accounts for nearly 70 percent of GDP and is rapidly expanding on the back of a growing middle and affluent class. Fuelling this growth is a digital economy that is also expanding rapidly.

Bancassurance can change how we do insurance

The system of selling insurance services to bank customers will ultimately expand financial inclusion.

The Bangladeshi model of dealing with bank crises

The growth of bad loans is mainly due to the business-politics nexus, lack of corporate governance, and weak judicial system

March 19, 2024
March 19, 2024

Bancassurance: a win-win solution for Bangladesh

With a gross domestic product growth rate of nearly 5.8 percent in 2023, Bangladesh is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. Driving Bangladesh’s prospects is our extremely active domestic consumer market, which accounts for nearly 70 percent of GDP and is rapidly expanding on the back of a growing middle and affluent class. Fuelling this growth is a digital economy that is also expanding rapidly.

January 2, 2024
January 2, 2024

Bancassurance can change how we do insurance

The system of selling insurance services to bank customers will ultimately expand financial inclusion.

October 3, 2023
October 3, 2023

The Bangladeshi model of dealing with bank crises

The growth of bad loans is mainly due to the business-politics nexus, lack of corporate governance, and weak judicial system

October 1, 2023
October 1, 2023

Banks’ CSR spending falls 9%

During the first half of this year, profits of 35 listed banks in Bangladesh dropped 9 percent year-on-year to Tk 4,160 crore.

February 23, 2023
February 23, 2023

Spike in funding costs to hurt banks’ profitability

Weak banks in Bangladesh with small holdings of government securities, which are used to mobilise funds either from the central bank or peers, may become more vulnerable in the days to come, Moody’s Investors Service warned yesterday.  

January 18, 2019
January 18, 2019

Centralised Decision-Making: Bank services slow down

Faruk Hussain was waiting for about an hour at the branch office of a private bank in the capital's Karwan Bazar to encash his boss' savings scheme.

January 2, 2017
January 2, 2017

Nat'l handball gets underway

Exim Bank 26th National Men's Handball Championship got underway yesterday at the Shaheed Mansur Ali National Stadium in Paltan with 33 teams participating.

November 8, 2016
November 8, 2016

Cricket: India threaten to cancel England Test in funds row

India's cricket board threatened Tuesday to cancel the first Test against England, less than 24 hours before it was due to begin, unless judges end a freeze on its bank accounts.

May 28, 2016
May 28, 2016

Nasir propels Prime DSC

In the rain-curtailed match at Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Protisthan No. 3 ground at Savar, Prime Doleshwar Sporting Club posts 191 for 7 in 28 overs against Abahani Limited today.

May 20, 2016
May 20, 2016

Mohammedan win again

Mohammedan SC record their second victory in the Green Delta Insurance Premier Division Hockey League with a 3-1 win over Sonali Bank.