The stock market regulator formulated a large number of policies, rules and regulations and passed orders in the last 15 years citing the best interests of investors.
The way that the stock market has been run over the past 15 years under the Sheikh Hasina-led government can be best summarised as facilitative to the manipulation of stock prices.
Over the past 15 years, investors have fled the market, initial public offerings (IPOs) have been scarce and capital market growth has fallen short of expectations. Despite this dry market, the number of stock intermediaries entering the market increased steadily.
The stock market regulator approved 127 firms for listing in the past 14 years, allowing their transition from private to public companies. However, the subsequent outcomes are disheartening as most of these companies showed declined performance rather than growth.
Per capita foreign debt of Bangladesh more than doubled in the last eight years, according to official data, as economists attribute the hike to unplanned foreign-funded projects and corruption, ultimately ballooning the liability on low-income people, including the extremely poor.
United Commercial Bank (UCB) PLC is on the verge of incurring losses of around Tk 75 crore as one-third of its total share market investment has been on a lone stock that has undergone price manipulation.
What does it take to manage undistributed money of stock investors and hand it over to rightful recipients? You appear to be wrong if the answer is simply sincere effort.
City Bank PLC is investigating how and why it spent about Tk 86 crore, or roughly one-third of its total market exposure, on purchasing shares of Sea Pearl Beach Resort and Spa Ltd in 2023, according to bank officials.
The stock market regulator formulated a large number of policies, rules and regulations and passed orders in the last 15 years citing the best interests of investors.
The way that the stock market has been run over the past 15 years under the Sheikh Hasina-led government can be best summarised as facilitative to the manipulation of stock prices.
Over the past 15 years, investors have fled the market, initial public offerings (IPOs) have been scarce and capital market growth has fallen short of expectations. Despite this dry market, the number of stock intermediaries entering the market increased steadily.
The stock market regulator approved 127 firms for listing in the past 14 years, allowing their transition from private to public companies. However, the subsequent outcomes are disheartening as most of these companies showed declined performance rather than growth.
United Commercial Bank (UCB) PLC is on the verge of incurring losses of around Tk 75 crore as one-third of its total share market investment has been on a lone stock that has undergone price manipulation.
Per capita foreign debt of Bangladesh more than doubled in the last eight years, according to official data, as economists attribute the hike to unplanned foreign-funded projects and corruption, ultimately ballooning the liability on low-income people, including the extremely poor.
What does it take to manage undistributed money of stock investors and hand it over to rightful recipients? You appear to be wrong if the answer is simply sincere effort.
City Bank PLC is investigating how and why it spent about Tk 86 crore, or roughly one-third of its total market exposure, on purchasing shares of Sea Pearl Beach Resort and Spa Ltd in 2023, according to bank officials.
The government has requested China to lower the interest rates on existing Chinese loans to 1 percent and extend the repayment period to 30 years.
The newly appointed board of National Bank PLC (NBL) will scrutinise all waived and written-off loans and interests, regardless of whether they were justified or not.