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  BB extends application submission deadline for software export subsidy

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:00am on November 12, 2018

  Bangladesh Bank has extended time to apply for getting subsidy on export of software, ITES and hardware in the fiscal year 2017-2018 by 30 days.The...

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  Public-pvt coop required to achieve growth target: seminar

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:00am on November 12, 2018

  Loan and grant projects of Asian Development Bank have created huge business opportunity in the country and now it is the time for the private...

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  SME loan not adequate for 56pc women entrepreneurs: BIDS study

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:00am on November 12, 2018

  Majority of the female small and medium entrepreneurs have reported that the current loan limit for the SME sectors is inadequate considering the financial need...

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  Dhaka Bank re-appoints Mahbubur as MD

  Business Desk | Updated at 12:00am on November 11, 2018

  Syed Mahbubur Rahman has been renewed as the managing director and CEO of Dhaka Bank, said a press release. Prior to his joining DBL, he...

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  Setting bank interest rates by govt to disrupt competition: experts

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:00am on November 09, 2018

  Experts on Thursday said that setting interest rates by the government in a free market economy like Bangladesh was a wrong decision and it would...

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  SME should get more priority, businessmen in a seminar

  Staff Correspondent . Chattogram | Updated at 11:57pm on November 07, 2018

  Businessmen on Wednesday in a seminar urged the government to give more priority on the country’s SME sector as it can play a pivotal role...

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  EU says SWIFT decision on Iran banks regrettable

  Reuters . Brussels | Updated at 12:00am on November 08, 2018

  The European Commission said on Wednesday it found regrettable the decision by the Belgium-based SWIFT financial messaging service to suspend some unspecified Iranian banks’ access...

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  Russia seeks to dump dollar as new US sanctions loom

  Agence France-Presse . Moscow | Updated at 12:00am on November 08, 2018

  Moscow is intensifying efforts to wean its economy off the dollar as Washington considers tough new sanctions that could deny Russia access to foreign debt...

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  India cenbank governor could resign amid tussle with govt: report

  Reuters . New Delhi | Updated at 12:00am on November 08, 2018

  Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Urjit Patel could resign at the central bank’s next board meeting on November 19, online financial publication Moneylife reported...

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  Poor governance, regulatory grip keep hurting banking sector

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:00am on November 08, 2018

  The overall situation in the country’s banking sector has not improved much due to lack of monitoring, poor internal governance and inadequate data assessment system,...