Dear readers, We are ready with another new issue, as another month in the Gregorian calendar has rolled into the next. Even though this is the dominant calendar, we still celebrate the start of the Bengali new year in our own calendar, which is at the middle of this month. New year
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From The Editor March 2018
Dear readers, With the International Women's Day in mind, we have designed an issue that takes a look at the prominent women innovators and entrepreneurs in the ICT, fintech and banking sector. That is not to say their work and influence do not surpass the confines of these fields, neither to suggest
Read MoreFrom The Editor February, 2018
Dear readers, As the editor of a magazine that goes by the masthead: Fintech, penning an anniversary editorial gives birth to a mixed set of feelings for me. But first and foremost, our readers—a big thanks to you. Without you, we are just pasted ink on dried papers; you give meanings
Read MoreFrom The Editor January 2018
Dear readers, A lot has happened over the past year. Immense initiatives have been announced and taken in the development sector, including the ICT sector, which is particularly relevant to us. The year ended with the biggest ICT event 'Digital World 2017'. We take you in the thick of it in
Read MoreFrom The Editor December 2017
Dear readers, Winter is coming, and so is 4G. People yearning for a little bit more of the soothing weather will watch out how high the temperature rises, and people keeping up with the news of 4G will be watching how high the bids rise. Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission is expected
Read MoreFrom The Editor November 2017
With the global fintech giant PayPal officially ushered into Bangladesh, the door to cross border Internet payment has now been pushed ajar. There are restraints still, but this is a much awaited and needed start of the payment gateway. However, the state minister for the ICT Division Junaid Ahmed Palak
Read MoreFrom The Editor October 2017
The impending necessity of preserving all data in the digital form, both for public record as well as for business needs, gave rise to mass data storage. Ultimately, managing data is going to be one of the key technological aspects that determines how any organisation runs. Fittingly, data centre is
Read MoreFrom The Editor September 2017
In the past few years ‘big data’ has become-‘bigger’-both in literal and metaphorical senses and the leaders in every sector will have to grapple with the implications of big data, not just a few data-oriented managers. The problem here in Bangladesh is-even though we take ‘big data’ as a buzzword-we
Read MoreFrom The Editor August 2017
To a Dhakait with a smartphone, the pre and post Uber-era is not the same. We are not assuming that all the smartphone users of the capital are indulging in pressing some virtual keys in their touch screened phones and availing a car service with a chauffeur at their doorsteps,
Read MoreFrom 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,
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