JUBAIR HASAN 2023-02-21 08:21:43
Agent banking continues changing rural socioeconomic landscape with formal credit inflow, deposit netting and injection of inward remittance marking a remarkable increase in the heretofore backwoods...
-- 2023-02-20 17:34:13
With a little over a month to go for peak shopping season during Ramadan, the head of Pakistan's retail industry body is shuttling between meetings, pressing officials to relax orders that forced mall...
Iftekharul Islam 2023-02-20 15:20:45
Flying can be a scary experience, with many people experiencing anxiety regarding air travel. Ukrainian aviation engineer, Vladimir Tatarenko, has spent over three years designing a new safety system...
FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-20 10:30:26
Meta Platforms on Sunday announced that it is testing a monthly subscription service, called Meta Verified, which will let users verify their accounts using a government ID and get a blue badge,...
FE REPORT 2023-02-20 08:37:59
Business leaders have demanded removing the existing bottlenecks in the business environment related to customs and tax, in order to help boost both domestic and foreign investment in the country. Th...
FE Report 2023-02-20 08:27:22
Investors in the government's post office savings certificates will not be able to deposit in general accounts under the manual system from July 1, 2023. However, they will get the deposit yield of...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON AND JUBAIR HASAN 2023-02-20 08:01:40
Non-performing loans (NPL) in Bangladesh's banking sector decreased by 1.20 percentage points to over Tk 1.20 trillion at the end of last December, following a special classification that economists s...
Ahnaf Tahmid Fahid 2023-02-19 17:08:58
In the world of e-commerce, Jeff Bezos is a living legend. Bezos developed an online empire that redefined how we shop and changed the face of retail as the founder and former CEO of Amazon. Bu...
Rassiq Aziz Kabir 2023-02-19 15:06:38
Until recently, if someone couldn’t find proper directions while going to some place, they would have to ask the passersby nearby to know the appropriate location. However, this now seems to be...
FE REPORT 2023-02-19 09:17:42
Bangladesh Consulate General in Dubai has given awards to 52 expatriates and 39 commercially important persons (CIPs) this year for contributing to the country's economy by sending remittance through...
FE Report 2023-02-19 09:16:10
Access to finance for the country's businesses was still remaining a "big issue", said Principal Secretary to Prime Minister M. Tofazzel Hossain Miah on Saturday. "We have achieved milestones in acce...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON 2023-02-19 08:55:16
Two unusual financial developments helped the government put aside a budget surplus of Tk 31.38 billion in the first four months of the current fiscal year, which economists, however, believe is trans...
Reuters 2023-02-18 13:10:03
Microsoft said on Friday it will limit chat sessions on its new Bing search engine powered by generative artificial intelligence (AI) to five questions per session and 50 questions per day. "As we me...
FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-18 10:16:06
Twitter said on Friday it will allow only paid subscribers to use text messages as a two-factor authentication (2FA) method to secure their accounts, reports Reuters. After March 20, "only Twitter Bl...
FE REPORT 2023-02-18 09:05:55
The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) has urged the government to protect intellectual property to boost up the country's economic growth and raise revenue collection...
-- 2023-02-17 19:13:23
Twitter Inc has closed two of its three offices in India, a global media reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. The social media company shut down offices in New Delhi and Mumbai...
-- 2023-02-17 16:28:45
Chinese social media company TikTok plans to open two more data centres in Europe, a senior executive said on Friday, a move that could mitigate concerns over the security of users' data and ease regu...
-- 2023-02-17 15:54:44
Alphabet Inc's Google, Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc, Twitter and Apple face stricter EU online content rules, based on monthly user numbers published by the companies, which exceeded an EU thres...
FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-17 10:45:11
The United States is concerned about debt owed to China by Pakistan and other countries, US State Department Counselor Derek Chollet said on Thursday during a visit to Islamabad as the country dealt w...
FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-17 10:32:42
YouTube Chief Executive and one of the first Google employees, Susan Wojcicki, is stepping down from her role at the tech giant that started in her garage nearly 25 years ago, she said in a personal u...
FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-17 10:06:06
OpenAI, the startup behind ChatGPT, on Thursday said it is developing an upgrade to its viral chatbot that users can customise, as it works to address concerns about bias in artificial intelligence....
JUBAIR HASAN 2023-02-17 08:52:19
Bangladesh Bank (BB) is planning to introduce a credit guarantee scheme (CGS) for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and agriculture sectors to boost agriculture production through facilitating farme...
FE REPORT 2023-02-17 08:36:04
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) on Thursday said the banks and financial institutions (FIs) can now sanction term loans to the cottage, micro, small, and medium enterprises (CMSMEs) from the Asian Infrastruc...
-- 2023-02-16 18:51:23
The 1320 MW Rampal power plant has resumed its partial production, but officials still worry about its uninterrupted operation due to dollar crisis that may again disrupt the import of coal, the plant...
-- 2023-02-16 18:27:52
Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi has said that French businessmen would be benefited more if they invest in Bangladesh capitalizing on the excellent business-friendly environment in the country. Tipu al...
FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-16 12:56:51
The potential economic effects of the earthquake in Turkey could result in a loss of up to 1 per cent of the country's gross domestic product this year, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Develo...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2023-02-15 21:26:09
Special Envoy of the President of the Republic of Korea JANG Sung Min has said that problems faced by the Korean company YoungOne for the Korean EPZ in Chittagong are serious and such problems need to...
-- 2023-02-15 21:03:45
Newly appointed Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh, Kiminori Iwama, has said that he will encourage Japanese companies to expand their business in Bangladesh to help the country achieve expected econom...
-- 2023-02-15 18:19:51
Bangladesh Bank (BB) is going to issue new banknotes of Taka 1,000 denomination signed by its governor, Abdur Rouf Talukder, from Thursday. It will initially be issued from the Motijheel office of th...
Reuters 2023-02-15 14:01:44
Twitter Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Wednesday that towards the end of 2023 would be "good timing" to find someone else to run Twitter, when he expects the social media platform to be stable. "I...
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