Before the pandemic hit the country, Bangladesh's economy maintained a steady 6%+ growth rate during FY10-FY15 and 7.0%+ growth rate during FY16-FY18, and 8.15% in FY19. Bangladesh’s foreign exchange reserve reached USD 43bn landmark in December, 202...

The CNY has appreciated 9.5% since its most recent trough on 29 May 2020. Recent CNY strength versus US$ has been driven by the factors listed below, most of which likely persist. Portfolio inflows to China (driven by 3.3% local currency 10-year bond...

Bangladesh Bank (BB), the central bank of Bangladesh, has cut the loan loss provisioning requirement against unclassified consumer loans (except Housing Finance and Loans to Professionals as it were already low) by 300bps. After the implementation of...

The downtrend in Bangladesh’s private sector credit growth started from the very beginning of FY19. Moreover, the anticipation of impending single digit lending rate cap further weakened the private sector credit growth rate at the beginning of CY20....

If remittances drop 20% who is exposed in emerging and frontier markets?

Bangladesh Bank (BB), the central bank has announced the Monetary Policy Statement (MPS) for the full fiscal year 2021 with a reduction in policy rates. The Repo rate has been reduced by 50bps and reverse repo by 75bps. Besides, after 17 years the ba...