In the beginning of the last decade, banks in Bangladesh gradually started shifting from maintaining financial data in pages of manual ledgers to computer hard drives. The apparent ‘magic manager’ that helped them keeping together a mammoth and complex set of data amalgamation of banking ecosystem is the core banking
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Fintech or Techfin?
The banking industry is experiencing disruption at an increasing pace. Over the past few years, traditional financial institutions and non-traditional fintech firms have begun to understand that collaboration may be the best path to long-term growth. At the same time, big tech firms are offering financial services, creating techfin solutions. The
HAJJ GUIDE: DIGITAL AIDE FOR THE PILGRIMS
HOW CRYPTOCURRENCIES ARE USED IN RUSSIA WORLD CUP?
Every four years the global sporting community feasts on a festival of football at the World Cup, as the world’s most popular sport takes centre stage. Football, in its current form, was birthed around 1863 in England, but its origins stem from numerous games played throughout history, according to FIFA. Over
Budget 2018-19: high promises, unclear goals
Pre-election budget is about understanding the political economy and delivering a sharp messageFinance Minister AbulMaal Abdul Muhith apparently dipped into his party’s electoral playbook to design the Tk 4,64,573 crore national budget for FY2018-19. The 84-year-old minister who stood at the front row in Parliament on June 7 for a
What budgetary measures we have for “Digital Bangladesh” this year?
National budget in each year opens the book for the aspiring IT entrepreneurs and make them to calculate what they are going to get and lose. While these calculations become tricky sometimes because of some budgetary measures which at best can be termed as ‘vague’ and ‘counter-intuitive,’ it forces the
CYBER-CRIME AND THE VULNERABILITY OF THE FAIRER GENDER
What the cyber-bullies or the cyber-criminals bet on is shame: in a pre-dominantly Muslim conservative society, the horror of an intimate photo leaking, or rumors being spread, is enough to buy a teenage girl’s silence. Women, specially of young age are thus overwhelmingly the victims of an alarming rise in cybercrimes
GETTING EID SHOPPING DONE FROM YOUR COMFORT ZONE
The scorching sun, unbearable traffic clog and the hassle of gyrating your way amidst the large crowd-all while fasting- a daunting prospect indeed. Not for the eid shoppers though. For them the joy of haggling and shopping with friends and family supersedes all of those. This trend however is on the
Bangabandhu-1:Ushering into our ‘own space age’
On May 12, Bangladesh’s space age has dawned with the successful launch of Bangabandhu-1 satellite by SpaceX into orbit. An anticipated and arguably the most significant incident in the country’s ICT sector, the launching of BS-1 was earlier deterred on a number of occasions, fueling skepticism and speculation among common people. Getting
ACCOUNTING BPO: THE NEW FRONTIER
In the last few years, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) has become sort of a buzzword among the Bangladeshi IT entrepreneurs. Envision of grabbing a large chunk of global BPO pie has prompted a good number of IT houses to jump onto this latest entrepreneurship bandwagon. Many new entrants however get daunted
