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Dhaka | Dhaka City | Bangladeshi News
According to Bangladesh Bank data, the income of salarymen for the year 2023 was $21.9 billion, which is about 3 percent higher than the $21.3 billion received in 2022. In 2021, expatriate income was $22.07 billion, compared to $21.73. billion in 2020 and $18.33 billion in 2019. This means that the recently ended year saw […]
At present banks are not opening LC for import of commercial food items without advance dollar arrangement. As a result, imports of these goods have fallen. Also, along with commercial banks, the central bank is providing dollars from reserves for the import of essential goods. Imports of essential goods are thus being kept at normal […]
When the Islamic bank, which brought in the largest volume of remittances, changed ownership and was accused of various frauds in providing loans, customers lost confidence in the bank and increasingly turned to the informal money transfer system of hundi. Did. This accelerated the pace of decline in foreign exchange reserves. Dollars have to be […]
Instructions for purchasing remittances at fixed price During a meeting last Wednesday, the Bangladesh Foreign Exchange Dealers Association (BFEDA) and the Association of Bankers, Bangladesh (ABB) decided to maintain buying of the dollar at Tk110.5 for remittances and export earnings, as practiced earlier. I went. With 5 per cent incentive, the maximum dollar price would […]
Central bank officials say that this includes fake export bills of Hallmark, Bismillah and Crescent Group. Besides, money is also stuck with many procurement agencies that went bankrupt during the coronavirus pandemic. Cases are going on in foreign countries on these issues. Therefore, it will take time to bring the entire amount back to the […]
Why is Hundi so popular? Is the hundi rising because migrants want to receive a higher rate for the dollar than those offered by banking channels when sending money home, or because it has become necessary to buy and sell dollars informally within the country? The bottom line is demand. Hundi has increased because demand […]
According to Bangladesh Bank data, the top 10 sources of remittance income are the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom, the United States, Oman, Malaysia, Kuwait, Italy, Qatar and Bahrain. Together, these 10 countries account for 88 percent of total remittance income. However, remittances increased from three countries – UAE, UK and […]
Bangladesh’s reserves have now become a matter of concern for everyone and according to indications from the IMF and other international agencies, it is feared that the reserves will fall to $20 billion by the end of the year. There has also been a decline in economic growth, resulting in a decline in bank deposits. […]
According to central bank records, remittances worth Tk 13.09 billion (Tk 1,309 crore) came into the country in the first seven months of this year. This is slightly more than the remittances that came into the country in the first seven months of last year. In the same period last year, remittances worth Tk 12.89 […]
Russia launched its attack on Ukraine on 24 February 2022. Just as the impact of Covid-19 was subsiding and the economy was gaining momentum, Russia attacked Ukraine. This led to a global economic crisis and most countries took all kinds of measures, including cutting monetary transactions. But Bangladesh took the opposite route. Most of the […]
