Dhaka stock exchange is going to starting a special campaign to attack Non-resident Bangladeshi’s investment in stock market. As Part of this campaign a delegation of DSE will visit UK next month.

A large number of Bangladeshis are living abroad. But NRB investment in country’s share market is very poor. Many of them are paying millions in unproductive sector like building and market.

Many of Non-resident Bangladeshis are investing in London, New York or Mumbai stock exchange. But there is great opportunity to invest in own country’s stock market. Investment of NRB’s will grow the strength of Bangladeshi share market.

Maximum NRB think that capital market of Bangladesh is not so strong. Investing opportunity to Fundamental company is very limited. But the situation has been changed. Capital market of the country has expanded. Daily trading of the Dhaka stock exchange has crossed Tk.1000 core. Current market capital of DSE is Tk.1237, 959,242,085. So the market has strong capacity to have a large number of NRB investments.

About 100 thousands NRB operating their investment activities into DSE through ‘Non-Resident investment Taka (NITA)..

How to start

To starting investment in Bangladeshi share markets you must needs an agreement with a brokerage house along with an authorized Dealer of Foreign Exchange or a custodian bank or a merchant bank. Any NRB can open an BO account through DHAKA BANK, STANDERD CHERTERD BANK AND HSBC. Each of those banks also open BO account in brokerage houses in fever of NRB investor. List of Brokers, company profile, daily news of companies, trading update and other informations of the market would be available at the website of Dhaka stock Exchange DSE) www.dsebd.org and Chittagong stock Exchange (CSE) www.csebd.com. Others necessary information with all investment rule and regulations are also available at the website of Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) www.secbd.org.

Facilities for NRB

Non-resident Bangladeshi investors enjoy facilities similar to foreign investors. They are allowed to buy newly issued shares/debentures of Bangladeshi companies. 10 percent reserved quota for non-resident Bangladeshis in primary shares (IPO). They can operate foreign currency deposits in the Non-resident Foreign Currency (NFCD) account.