Cyber-attacks are on the rise in Bangladesh, highlighting the need for robust security.
Climate change has emerged as a significant risk to sovereign debt sustainability, impacting fiscal stability and growth prospects.
Asia forms the backbone of the world economy, powering vital supply chains from electronics hubs in Taiwan and South Korea to garment factories in Bangladesh.
When two related entities enter a cross-border transaction, the price at which they undertake the transaction is the “transfer price.” Due to the special relationship between related entities, the transfer price may be different than the price that would have been agreed upon by unrelated parties. The price between unrelated parties in an uncontrolled condition is known as the “arm’s length price” (ALP).
As the world faces pressing environmental and social issues while the business world continues to evolve, sustainability management has become an essential concept in modern business strategies.
Despite various challenges, the financial sector in Bangladesh is undergoing a rapid digital transformation, driven by economic development and the increasing adoption of new technologies.
This year’s Nobel Prize in economics has been awarded to British-Americans Simon Johnson and James Robinson and Turkish-American Daron Acemoglu, whose work and research in economics have been to explain how some countries manage to stay ahead of the curve while others fail to do so.
The banking industry as a business is inherently risky.
Among perennial issues such as geopolitical, economic, climate and health, one of the biggest challenges for countries today is cybersecurity.
Bangladesh has seen a significant rise in consumer banking or retail offering by banks or a few non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) in recent days. During the coronavirus pandemic,
I received a short message on my phone just before noon on July 1 but could not notice it properly due to office work.
Despite a lot of loud discussions regarding financial inclusion, a large number of people in Bangladesh are far from being granted access to basic financial services, making financial inclusion development an essential project in the country.
As Bangladesh has covered considerable ground into achieving the coveted middle-income country status, a robust insurance sector will be vital in consolidating the growth story.
A few weeks back, I attended a financial sector specialist meet at New York. Apart from rapid technology transformation issues, a major discussion took place about transitioning from LIBOR to a new order, popularly termed as IBOR or Inter-bank Offered Rate, to shift the power from traders to finance or independent units for rate fixation.
Aadhaar is a one-time identity card issued by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) free of cost for all residents of India, making it the world’s largest biometric identification programme.
It is being discussed in the corridors that the accounting or finance profession is going to be most impacted in the era of artificial intelligence and machine learning. We also know that the global job markets are likely to take a 360 degree shift with the advent of data driven economy.
Today, much of the developed world’s central banks are built after the “Bundesbank model.”
Banking as a sector has always been an attractive target of fraud and embezzlement due to the abundance of cash resources it
