Business

Bank Asia makes outstanding contribution to financial inclusion: Arfan Ali

“Looking back at the 22 year journey of Bank Asia, the Bank’s biggest contribution would be the financial inclusion of deprived people and paving a way with financial leadership”, Md Arfan Ali, President and Managing Director of Bank Asia told Bangladesh Post in a n interview.He sa...

Business

Ctg Travel Mart-22 linking travel fans, service providers

The ongoing three day Chittagong Travel Mart- 2022, organized with objective to provide a platform for direct communication between travel enthusiasts and travel service providers, has been able successfully to attract a wide range of travel loving visitor. The fair gathered multi-sectoral stak...

Business

Classified loan ratio to be reduced to single digit by end of 2022: Ataur Rahman Prodhan

Sonali Bank Limited, country’s largest state-owned commercial bank, made a record operating profit of Tk 2,205 crore in year 2021. The bank earned a operating profit of Taka 2,153 crore in year 2020. According to the data of the bank, the classified loan of the bank also came down to 14.1...

National,Front Page

Economists, bankers expect positive growth in 2022

Country's leading economists, bankers and analysts expressed their reactions about economic situation in the New Year. They hoped that the country would achieve the economic growth in the New Year 2022. They expressed the opinions that there have some challenges like managing inflation, health r...

Special Supplement

Bangladesh makes significant progress in RH, challenges still there: Qazi Suraiya Sultana

Bangladesh has significantly improved on providing family planning (FP) services by reducing the gaps of many unmet needs of reproductive health. Such achievement happened through joint collaboration and cooperation of the government, NGO and private service providers across the country, said Q...

Business

Algeria plays regional role which naturally belongs to both at the Arab and African levels: Rabah LARBI

“Algeria plays the regional role which naturally belongs to both at the Arab and African levels. Everyone praises its role where it intervenes. In the past as now it had contributed to the resolution to several conflicts which sometimes go beyond its geographical sphere", said Algerian Am...

Business

Special zone for emerging jewelry industry is very essential

""It is necessary to establish a special zone for the country's highly potential and emerging jewellery industry and to develop it with the assurance of providing highest level of security as also to ensure easy bank loans for the jewellery sector investors for reaching the expected go...

Business

'Infobip set to revolutionize the global business communications landscape in Bangladesh'

Harsha Solanki, Managing Director of Infobip (India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal) in an exclusive interview with Bangladesh Post, elaborately discussed on how the digital driven market is changing the landscape in business communications in Bangladesh.The excerpts of the interview is as bellow:B...

Bank & Insurance

Branding is a promise – not merely a communication

Branding is a not merely a communication rather it is a promise. What branding means? It is something like promising the customers that some better services are offered for them so the customers can rely on that.As per a recent study – among all local, international and specialised banks opera...

Bank & Insurance

BRAC Bank Call Center A world-class banking with all services

BRAC Bank Limited, a leading private sector commercial bank, has been established as the largest-ever center in the country’s banking sector targeting to offer all-time facilities to customers through providing fastest possible services.The BRAC Bank Call Center, equipped with world-class faci...

Bank & Insurance

Banks playing big role in development activities

Commercial banks have now been involved in many development projects of the government, especially infrastructure development projects. This has helped the banks a lot in achieving higher business growth. Some banks are now going for long-term financing and contractor financing.There are a good numb...

Business

DCC proposed central complaints management system

The Digital Commerce Cell (DCC) has handed over a set of recommendation to the cabinet division on Wednesday proposing to issue a unique business identification number and introducing a central complaints management system alongside a central logistic tracking platform to streamline the e-commerce s...

Special Supplement

CMAs’ role important globally for their problem-solving skills, financial expertise: Mozammel

Bangladesh Post: Can you say something about the role of Accountant in any organization and what are the basic things to be followed as a Senior Executive, the role of Accountants in Investment Functions?Mozammel Hoque: Accountants are always in the front line for solving business problems and ...

Business

Bancassurance helps increase insurance penetration: Sheikh Danial

"The low penetration of Insurance is a real challenge for a growing economy and in the case of many other economies at the same stage as Bangladesh, Bancassurance has provided the necessary coverage to increase the penetration to a sustainable level", said Sheikh Mohammed Danial, Director,...

Business

Sonali Life to meet diverse demands of customers: Rashed Aman

"The contribution of insurance industry is massive to the GDP. The present government has given much attention to the insurance sector. However, I think the insurance industry still needs even more attention and utmost priority in next year's budget." said Mir Rashed Bin Aman, Chief Ex...

Business

Public confidence in insurance rises for policy support

The people’s confidence on insurance has increased significantly with the expansion of the sector through policy support from the government over the last ten years, a top executive of insurance sector has said.In an interview, Meghna Insurance Company Limited (MICL) managing director and chie...

Business

BCB aims to make huge impact on banking sector growth

Bengal Commercial Bank (BCB) cherishes the vision of making a profound impact in the growth of banking industry and stand out as the most preferred, unique and contemporary financial service provider of the country, said Managing Director and CEO of Bengal Commercial Bank (BCB), Tarik Morshed in an ...

National,Front Page

Budget to stimulate Covid recovery, say analysts

Expressing reaction over the proposed budget for the FY 2021-22, country's leading economic analysts underlined the need for strict implementation of the budget to ensure employment of people and food supply for them. Executive Director of Policy Research Institute (PRI), Ahsan H. Mansur sa...

Business

Digitisation must for sustainable growth in banking sector in post-Covid era

Digitization in banking will give this sector resilience against the current Covid-19 situation and ensure sustainable growth in post Covid era. Future bank in the new normal will be more data driven, more in the cloud and modernized IT infrastructure, said Humaira Azam Managing Director & CEO, ...

Business

Female leaders paving way for future generation: Mubina Asaf

"The contribution of women to the economy is testament to what an inclusive mindset can lead to but there is still a long way to go. Everywhere I look, I see inspirational female leaders – be it at large corporates or as successful entrepreneurs – breaking gender stereotypes and pav...