IFRS 9 adoption to challenge banks amid high NPLs: experts
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19 September 2026 Business
Tighten anti-money laundering rules for capital market: BFIU
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15 September 2026 Business
BSEC launches new official website
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6 September 2026 Business
Stocks fall sharply as DSE index sheds 103 points in a single day
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6 September 2026 Business
Aamra Networks shares fall after it announces one paisa dividend
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6 September 2026 Business
RAK Ceramics Bangladesh’s managing director to sell 885,000 shares
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25 August 2026 Business
BSEC sends 17 officials into compulsory retirement
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20 August 2026 Business
BSEC seeks DSE explanation on Monarch Holdings licence renewal
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28 July 2026 Business
BSEC, IMF discuss green bond market development
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22 July 2026 Business
BSEC eyes direct listing for big firms: commission chairman
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18 July 2026 Business

Administrator appointed for Swadesh Islami Life Insurance

Sk Md Rezaul Islam, former additional secretary, will be the new administrator with immediate effect
21 May 2024

BSEC changes Z category listing rules

The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) issued a directive yesterday repealing one criterion and adding a new one for companies to be listed as junk.
21 May 2024

Stocks fall for sixth straight day

Shares on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) fell for the sixth consecutive day yesterday thanks mainly to the price erosion of several large-cap scrips.
20 May 2024

Stocks fall for sixth consecutive day

Large-cap shares continue to see price erosions
20 May 2024

Stocks plunge to 3-year low

Stocks in Bangladesh dropped for a fifth consecutive day yesterday for a selling spree of some large investors, sending the major index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) to a three-year low.
19 May 2024

DSE index hits three-year low

The DSEX ended today at 5,431.28 points
19 May 2024

Why are investors leaving the stock market?

Stock investors in Bangladesh are leaving the share market as they are losing their hard-earned money because of the persisting fall of the indices driven by the prolonged economic crisis, the worsening health of the banking industry, and rising interest and exchange rates.
19 May 2024

SS Steel sees profit shrivel as it expands footprint

SS Steel Ltd has registered higher turnover thanks to increased sales ever since the steelmaker started acquiring several companies in 2020, but its overall profit has dropped.
18 May 2024

5 banks to seek offshore banking deposits at NY campaign

The leading banks will arrange a dinner for expatriate Bangladeshis at New York LaGuardia Airport Marriott
18 May 2024

Dhaka Bank’s Q1 profit highest in 4 years

The bank's profit rose 26% year-on-year to Tk 60.39 crore in Jan-Mar period of 2024
16 May 2024

Stocks drop for three straight days

The stock market continued to plunge for a third consecutive day yesterday as risk-averse investors sold shares apprehending that the economy would turn for the worse in the coming days.
15 May 2024

BATB's profit drops as for high inflation deters smokers

British American Tobacco Bangladesh (BATB) saw a drop in its profits and sales in the January-March period of 2024, reasoning that people had cut back on smoking cigarettes amidst high inflationary pressure.
14 May 2024

LafargeHolcim’s profit drops for first time since 2022's Q1

The cement maker’s turnover fell 3%, profit 15% in Jan-Mar
13 May 2024

Russell T Ahmed reelected as BASIS president

Russell T Ahmed has been reelected as the president of the Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) for a two-year term..M Rashidul Hasan was elected as senior vice president of the apex tread body of Bangladesh's ICT industry..It elected two other vice pre
11 May 2024

bKash's profit surged in 2023

Mobile financial service provider bKash logged a massive 504 percent year-on-year rise in profit in 2023.
9 May 2024

PM instructs inclusion of public companies in capital market

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today directed the Finance Division to take effective steps to enlist state-owned companies in the country's share market
9 May 2024

‘Bangladesh economy showing resilience’

The first-ever Purchasing Managers' Index shows slower expansion at 62.2 in April
9 May 2024

Stocks fall amid profit booking

The prime index of the DSE decreased 0.6% before closing the day at 5,690.78
8 May 2024

DSE seeks knowledge from Nasdaq, Swedish stock exchange

Cooperation is sought for product development, technology upgradation, monitoring and financial literacy
8 May 2024

Shipping Corporation's profit down 27% in July-March

State-owned Bangladesh Shipping Corporation (BSC) has witnessed a year-on-year drop in both revenue, generated from renting out its seven vessels, and associated profit in the first nine months of this fiscal year of 2023-24.
7 May 2024