Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC)

Directors of 10 firms to face fine for missing dividend payment deadline: BSEC

Nine companies are given December 15 deadline and one November 30

Anti-Money Laundering / US secret service to train Bangladeshi agencies

60 officials of BFIU, Bangladesh Police, NBR, ACC, BSEC and the Department of Narcotics Control will receive the training

Enquiry panel to find reasons for stock market downtrend

The four-member committee will submit a report in 10 workdays

Sk Trims completes paying all due dividends

The company’s managing director says today

BSEC forms taskforce to reform stock market

The five-member panel starts working today

14 companies asked to explain failure to pay dividends

The companies declared dividends last year, but failed to hand over those

Panel formed to investigate share discrepancy in Rahima Food Corporation

The three-member panel formed by the BSEC was asked to submit report in 15 days

Shakib Al Hasan will no longer be BSEC’s brand ambassador

The regulator found Shakib and his company Monarch Holdings involved in several stock market manipulation

M Masrur Reaz, new BSEC chairman

He will be in the post for the next four years

May 23, 2024
May 23, 2024

BSEC honours 8 stock market intermediaries

They were awarded with the Independence Golden Jubilee Award 2023

May 8, 2024
May 8, 2024

BSEC gets two new commissioners

The government yesterday appointed two commissioners at the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) for a four-year term while extending the tenure of an existing commissioner by another term.

April 30, 2024
April 30, 2024

Will BSEC ever learn from its missteps?

Analysts say the regulator’s intervention is denting investors’ confidence and it comes at a time when they are still smarting from the wounds caused by the 18-month-long floor price, a period when most of the stocks were untradeable.

April 23, 2024
April 23, 2024

Sustainability disclosure standards needed to access external financing

Banks and financial institutions need to embrace global sustainability disclosure standards to access international financing and promote private sector development, said Mizanur Rahman, a commissioner of the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC).

March 17, 2024
March 17, 2024

'Bearish market resulted from floor price'

The long-term imposition of the floor price has had a negative impact on the stock market, leading to the current bearish trend, according to Md Ashequr Rahman, managing director of Midway Securities.

October 16, 2023
October 16, 2023

IMF wants to know why stock turnover fell

An IMF team meets BSEC officials today

September 14, 2023
September 14, 2023

BB-BSEC discord clouds NBFI governance

Non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) have remained comparatively less regulated owing to a major gap between the Bangladesh Bank and the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) on some provisions relating to corporate governance, according to analysts.

September 5, 2023
September 5, 2023

Everything that's wrong with our stock market right now

Only two years ago, Bangladesh's stock market was termed 'hidden gem.'

July 30, 2023
July 30, 2023

Rules relaxed for Best Holdings’ IPO on three conditions

Best Holdings is the owning entity of Le Méridien Dhaka

July 27, 2023
July 27, 2023

First Finance’s board restructured

The company’s accumulated loss now stands at Tk 325 crore