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HSBC Bangladesh’s profit falls 23% in 2025 due to higher loan-loss provisions

HSBC Bangladesh’s profit falls 23% in 2025 due to higher loan-loss provisions

The decline in profit was largely driven by a sharp increase in provisions

Illustration: TBS

Financial account surplus jumps to $3.81b in Jul-Mar

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Bangladesh pays $1.51b ACU bill for March-April, reserves set to dip

Sanem Executive Director and University of Dhaka Professor Selim Raihan. Sketch: TBS

Inflation above 9%: A growing strain on rural and urban lives

Postal insurance premiums can now be paid thru Nagad

Postal insurance premiums can now be paid thru Nagad

Illustration: Ashrafun Naher Ananna/TBS

Inflation rises to 9.04% in April amid Iran war fallout

Shariah-based banks‘ depositors stage a protest in front of Bangladesh Bank branch in Chattogram on Wednesday, 6 May. Photo: TBS

Shariah-based bank depositors protest BB officials' remarks, warn of 'suicide programme'

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Orange economy jobs grow 237% in a decade, yet it lacks policy

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Net FDI rises 39.36% in 2025 as intra-company loans increase: BB report

The logo of Islami Bank PLC. Photo: Collected

How one clause in Islami Bank's HR policy allowed hiring of thousands without open competition

NBR Office in Dhaka. File Photo: Collected

VAT goes to village: NBR eyes bringing small businesses under coverage

The factory – set up by Turkey’s TAM Hangers and local conglomerate Meghna Group – was formally launched at Mirzapur in Tangail today (4 May), with top executives from both sides in attendance. Photo: Courtesy

TAM-Meghna venture kicks off, eyes half of Bangladesh's $400m hanger market

People look at stock market data. File Photo: TBS

State-owned oil firms see gains; gas, industries among losers in Q3