বিদেশি বিনিয়োগ আকর্ষণে ব্যবসায়িদের প্রাতিষ্ঠানিক ও আইনি সংস্কারের দাবি
নিজস্ব প্রতিবেদক: দেশে বিদেশি বিনিয়োগকে আকৃষ্ট করতে ব্যবসার পরিবেশ আরও ত্বরান্বিত করতে হবে। তাই বিদেশি বিনিয়োগকে আকর্ষনীয় করে তুলতে সময়োপযোগী প্রাতিষ্ঠানিক ও আইনি সংস্কারের দাবি জানিয়েছে ঢাকা চেম্বার অব কমার্স অ্যান্ড ইন্ডাস্ট্রির (ডিসিসিআই) সভাপতি ব্যারিস্টার মো. সামীর সাত্তার। মঙ্গলবার (১৭ জানুয়ারি) বিডা কার্যালয়ের বাংলাদেশ বিনিয়োগ উন্নয়ন কর্তৃপক্ষ (বিডা)- এর চেয়ারম্যান লোকমান হোসেন মিয়ার সঙ্গে ডিসিসিআই পরিচালনা পর্ষদের সাক্ষাৎকালে তিন...বিস্তারিতি এমন দাবি
Liquidity crunch limits banks' investment in stocks
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BSEC forms Shariah Advisory Council for stock market
Great exodus from stock market
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DSE daily turnover scales over Tk 9b-mark on buying spree
Stocks rallied on Tuesday with turnover scaling Tk 9 billion-mark as investors were in a buying spree with the hope that the macroeconomic pressure would ease in the coming days. Investors went for buying oversold stocks, influenced by the news...
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BSEC establishes Shariah advisory council
The scope for issuing Shariah-based securities in the capital market will now widen
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Economy
Bangladesh needs structural reforms to attract investment: IMF DMD
January 17, 2023
· Past reforms have placed Bangladesh today in a better position in macroeconomic management than many low and middle income countries, but further reforms are needed to attract more private investment to sustain higher levels of growth, says a visiting senior IMF executive.
· She hoped the IMF board would accept on 30 January the loan program, which is geared to help Bangladesh maintain macroeconomic stability and support green growth in the long term as well as overcome balance of payment pressure from imports.
· Bangladesh would be the first country in Asia to benefit from the IMF's new concessional lending scheme – resilience and sustainability fund – with a longer maturity period.
Unemployment rate stood at 6.91% in Nov, 2022
January 17, 2023
· Bangladesh's unemployment rate hit an all-time high of 6.91% in November.
· The rate of unemployment hit 6.47% in June, the last month of the fiscal 2021-22, and it accelerated to this new high in November.
· The rise comes after comparatively tamer ranges of 4.2% to 4.5% in the previous two decades.
· In 2000, the rate was 4.3% and had not exceeded 4.5% in the last couple of decades.
From: https://www.tbsnews.net/economy/unemployment-hits-all-time-high-691-nov-569674
Pvt sector credit growth declines to 12.8% in December
January 18, 2023
· According to Bangladesh Bank data, the private sector credit growth dropped to 12.8% in December, the sixth month of the current financial year 2022-23, from 13.97% in November.
· Bank sector experts said that the private sector credit growth declined in December due to a liquidity shortage in the country’s banking sector.
From: https://www.newagebd.net/article/191939/pvt-sector-credit-growth-dips-to-128pc-in-dec
Banking
Village digital booths to ensure banking services in 90,000 villages
January 17, 2023
· Aspire to Innovate's (A2i) payment processing platform Ekpay and Zaytoon Business Solutions will be introducing village digital booths in about 90,000 villages of the country to bring marginalised people under banking and financial services.
· People concerned said people in the villages will get services, including opening bank accounts, conducting transactions, stock market payments, etc, through these booths.
· Besides, these booths will provide various facilities, including remittance withdrawal, card transactions, bill payments of various services and deposit-withdrawal of Mobile Financial Services (MFS) such as Bkash, and Rocket.
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