BRAC Bank’s Corporate Digital Solution - CORPnet, the leading corporate internet banking platform, processed BDT 227,321 crore in 80 lakh digital transactions in 2025. The platform recorded 43% year-on-year growth…
On 1 March 2026, for the first time in modern commercial shipping history, zero vessels transited the Strait of Hormuz. Not a reduction. Not a slowdown. Zero. The day before,…
Trader Joe's has no app. No delivery service. No partnership with Instacart, DoorDash, or any third-party platform. In 2025, despite this stubborn refusal to participate in the convenience economy, its…
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY When the United States and Israel launched military strikes on Iran in late February 2026, the shockwaves reached Dhaka within hours. Crude oil surged past $114 per barrel,…
For millions of Bangladeshi families today, the monthly budget is no longer a calculation, it is an anxiety. The price of rice, oil, vegetables, and lentils has risen faster than…
The Consensus Is Broken For thirty years, the big idea in global business was integration. Build where it's cheapest. Sell where demand is highest. Let the market sort out the…
Introduction: Market Access at a Price For Bangladesh’s ready-made garment (RMG) sector, access to the United States has never been cheap, but it has now become explicitly conditional. The US–Bangladesh…
Over the last few years, data and predictive systems have become more and more integral to marketing. Digital twin technology, which was previously used in the engineering and manufacturing sectors,…
As global debt reaches a staggering $348 trillion — the fastest annual build-up since the pandemic — the world stands at a fiscal crossroads. From Japan's bond market tremors to…
In November 2022, OpenAI released ChatGPT and quietly ignited the most concentrated burst of corporate capital spending in modern history. What followed was not merely a technology trend but a…
It is 7:42 in the morning in Dhaka. A 26-year-old graphic designer opens her phone before she opens her eyes. She checks her bKash balance, splits last night's dinner bill…
Bangladesh has again returned to a question it thought it had already answered: should it graduate from the UN’s Least Developed Country (LDC) category in 2026, or should it ask…
THE MONTH THAT MOVES MARKETS On the evening of February 17, 2026, the crescent moon rose over Dhaka and Ramadan began. Within hours, the city had already transformed. The streets…
The global economy stands at a point where the inclusion of women in leadership positions is no longer merely a matter of equity but rather represents a fundamental economic imperative.…
The United States fundamentally reshaped the geopolitics of the Western Hemisphere on January 3, 2026, when Delta Force operators seized Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in a predawn raid on Caracas.…