Taher Ahmed Chowdhury, the Deputy Managing Director of Islami Bank, is a 30 years experienced personality in field of IT and is therefore also the Head of Information & Communication of this bank. He has also played the role of Executive Vice President & CIO of first security of Islami
Month: July 2017
INDUSTRY-ACADEMIA COLLABORATION NEEDS MORE FOCUS
Many of us probably know about the background of how Facebook was founded. In the year 2003, when Mark Zuckerberg was just a second year student at Harvard University, he started to create a program called ‘Facemash’ just as an in-campus initiative. Gradually but quickly, this became the most influential
BUSINESS REQUIRES IT WHEREAS IT REQUIRES BUSINESS ACQUAINTANCE
The Role of Information Technology in Business Success Innovation is the great way to success in this digital age. The path of innovation in business means doing something different, smarter or better that will make a positive difference in terms of value, quality or productivity by using emerging or proved technologies
BANKING IS BROKEN AND WE MUST START FROM SCRATCH
How technology will transform banking: Blockchain, digital challengers and IoT I think the time is now right to give consumers what they really want. Amazon has changed shopping, iTunes has changed music, but nobody has changed banking. It needs people who know about banking and are passionate about technology to change
From The Editor July 2017
The budget fever this year seems to go on; for obvious reasons though. While the Finance Minister AMA Muhit termed this year’s proposed budget as his ‘best one’ so far, a significantly good part of the population including the policymakers and the economists seem to differ. As per their opinions,
Read MoreSMART CARD ON THE WAY TO DHAKA FOR SMART COMMUTING
The thought of bringing out an integrated circuit (IC) card from the wallet and swipe or press it against a card scanner to get into a public transport seems like a far-fetched dream in a city like Dhaka. Especially, considering the current sorry state of crowd-filled, dilapidated public vehicles, the idea
FINTECH PARTNERSHIPS ARE TRANSFORMING BUSINESSES
Technology is something that is ever-changing, ever-helping and seeping into everything. The latest example of such an innovation is the Fintech industry. Incumbents are flocking towards these services that are and will help boost revenues of companies, which has seen an investment of over 19 billion USD worldwide in 2015
A FAR-SIGHTED BUDGET WITH EVERYONE UNDER THE TAX BASE, BUT FOREIGN INVESTORS NEED MORE ACCESS
In a post-budget analysis session, PwC, one of the global ‘big four’ auditors and professional service providers, communicated its analysis and observations on the national budget for the fiscal year 2017-18, which Finance Minister AMA Muhith placed before the parliament on June 1. The press event was attended by journalists from
YOU NEED TO HAVE MINDSET, MANPOWER AND THE CAPACITY OF INVESTMENT FOR DEVELOPING CBS
Mustafa Rafiqul Islam attained B. Sc. and M. Sc. in Computer Science from Purdue University, USA. He served GE Capital, California and Computerland, USA. Since 1997, Mustafa is running countries leading IT infrastructure and software companies Flora Telecom and Flora Systems. In Flora Systems, Mustafa developed renowned Core Banking Application
