...Bangladesh University of Professionals EMBA , Legal Environment of Business. Dr. Ridwanul Hoque: ridwancu@yahoo.com Regulation of business What is regulation?: t o say what to do and what not to do; to draw a periphery of corporate powers. And, is regulation anti-thesis to financial regulation thought to be generative of economic progression?: It is in no way a hindrance to economic performance by corporate entities. Absence of regulation leads to non-environment for business and the dilution of shareholders’ interests. Importance of regulation can be understood with a reference to the benefits of state control in the banking sector. One can take, for example, the case of the recent saga of Oriental Bank Ltd., in the morbid-situation of which the state intervened to protect the public’s money from being further lost. To note one author: “ Depositors entrust their savings to a bank, based on faith that thus money will be duly safeguarded and returned to them when they need it, The banks, in turn, lend their depositors money to borrowers … based on a trust that he borrowers will return the money ….”.[1] In order to protect the public interest and the business trust as depicted in the above paragraph, there needs to be legal protection in place. This is where state regulation comes into play in the marker arena. Two ways of regulating market are: legal regulation and corporate governance regime (which may be based on both private initiates...
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...1. ORIGIN OF THE REPORT This assignment is originated as the course requirement of FIN 335, which is termed to be a major course for the B.B.A program. As this assignment is based on Security Exchange Commission of Bangladesh, so we have to work with limited time. We were assigned the assignment on “Security Exchange Commission” around 30 days ago, and we went around looking for its source of existence and also searched the internet to get enough updated knowledge. 1. OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY ➢ To present an overview of Security Exchange Commission. ➢ The Function of Security Exchange Commission. ➢ The objective of this report is to make readers know about Security Exchange Commission of Bangladesh. 1.2SCOPES AND METHODOLOGY OF THE REPORT SCOPE: After being assigned the assignment, we found that the scope of the report was confined to various related websites. The report is solely based on terms and concepts related to Security Exchange Commission. METHODS: This assignment has been prepared on the basis of experience gathered during the period of FIN 335 course. For preparing this assignment, we have also got information from various websites and Security Exchange office at Motijheel ‘ Jibon Bima Bhaban ‘which may provide successful results considering this report. 1.3 LIMITATIONS ✓ Some websites had no direct reference. ✓ Unable to collect enough information from due to their official restrictions. ...
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...share holder value. For the retail and customer industry, globalization, which entails multinational operations, various financial reporting systems, and complex supply chain with wholesalers, distributors, and multiple types of retailers, not to mention multiple brand portfolios, and various types of outlets, provides significant rationales for management and boards to develop an effective GRC program. Successful corporate governance depends largely on trade-off among the various conflicting interest groups like government, society, inventors, creditors and employees of the organization. This study critically discusses the implementation practice of the corporate governance guidelines issued by Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in Bangladesh. Following the much reported collapses of companies such as Enron, World Com, HIH and One. Tel, corporate governance...
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...Code of Corporate Governance – A Critical Comparison between Bangladesh and Malaysia James Bakul Sarkar Assistant Professor in Accounting and MBA Coordinator Faculty of Business ASA University Bangladesh E-mail: jamssarkar@yahoo.com Mob: 0171-6599599 Dewan Muhammad Nur A Yazdani Lecturer in Marketing Faculty of Business ASA University Bangladesh E-mail: dewanm@hotmail.com Mob: 0172-7681817 Md. Abdul Mannan Assistant Professor Department of Business Administration Stamford University Bangladesh Mob:0171-6418892 Code of corporate governance – A critical comparison between Bangladesh and Malaysia Abstract: Corporate governance is the way in which the corporate entities are governed. The question is: Who will determine the way- the entity itself or the regulator. Different stakeholders with quite diversified interests have stakes (interests) in the operation of business. Consequently, the business entity should not be allowed to operate in every respect in the way it likes; the regulators should come forward to impose certain restrictions and principles on the corporate affairs to upkeep the best interests of stakeholders like investors, creditors and after all the capital market. Such restrictions and principles can be termed as Code...
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...IPO Process in Bangladesh Submitted to: Md. Lutfur Rahman Assistant Professor, Department of Business Administration, East West University, Dhaka. Submitted by: Name | ID | Arafat Rauf | 2009-2-10-345 | FIN 335 Section: 3 Fall: 2011 Date of Submission: 15th December 2011 Executive Summary | This term paper gives us a practical experience while passing through the theoretical understanding. The report is the result of our understanding about what are IPO and IPO listing procedure in Bangladesh. In the introduction, we have briefly discussed about IPO. What it is. In the next we have also explained the methodology regarding this report. Secondary data and information have been used in preparing this report. Then comes the Analysis part, where we have explained the listing procedure. We have divide listing procedure in two Parts according to their behavior, one is work before Consent and another in work after consent. In the whole listing procedure, the works are separable like work before IPO consent and work after IPO consent. Like all study, this report has also certain limitations which were in some cases unavoidable. In the end we have concluded with a short discussion of overall analysis. Table of Content Content | Page Number | Introduction | 4 | Methodology of the Study | 4 | Analysis | 5 | Conclusion | 9 | Bibliography | 10 | Introduction | Initial public offering (IPO), also referred to simply as a "public offering"...
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...An Analysis On The Role of Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission Course Name : Financial Institution and Market Course Code: Fin-335 , Sec: 1 Prepared for Prof. Tanvir Ahmed Chowdhury Chairman, Department of Business Administration East West University Prepared by Holistic Heroes Submission Date: 25th March, 2014 Group Profile Department Of Business Administration Letter of Transmittal 25th March 2014 Prof. Tanvir Ahmed Chowdhury Chairman Department of Business Administration East West University Dear Sir, It gives us immense pleasure to present our term paper on the topic “ An Analysis on Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission, for the course Financial Institution and Market (FIN_335). By doing this paper we have learned a lot practical issues regarding BSEC , Capital Market, Stock Market, Bond Market etc and we think that will help us in our near future. We would like to thank you for your valuable guidance in every problem we had the precious time that you give us. We will be available for any further clarification required and requesting to accept our term paper. Thank you Sincerely All the Members of Holistic Heroes Syed Md. Fakruuddin Nahid Hasan Sayma Sultana Al Mumtahina Shuovy Asma Sultana Nusrat Sharmin Eva Table of content | Page no | Introduction | 6 | 1.0.0 Bangladesh Securities and Exchanges Commission | 7 | 1.2.0 Function of BSEC | 9 | 2.0.0 Capital...
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...Introduction: The stock market of Bangladesh is considered to be one of the emerging markets in the context of the global financial system. The market has immense potentials for country’s industrialization, development of infrastructure in particular and economic growth in general. The government and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have undertaken a good number of initiatives to meet Bangladesh's development financing requirements with a particular focus on developing long term infrastructure financing and strengthening financial stability through promotion of capital market. In this regard formulation of a Master Plan is of crucial importance. Stock markets or Stock exchanges play an important role in the modern capitalized economy by providing the strength to nation's economic infrastructure. Now the stock market is one of the most important sources for companies to raise capital. Stock market allows businesses to raise additional capital for expansion by transferring the ownership of the company. It provides individuals the opportunity to invest in corporations. The size of the world stock market was estimated at about $36.6 trillion at the beginning of October 2008. In Bangladesh, there are two stock exchanges, the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE), DSE was setup on April 28, 1954 that started formal trading in 1956. In 1995, CSE was setup. However, in its fifty-eight year’s history the stock market of Bangladesh crashed two times, first...
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...Quarterly Review January-March 2008 Securities and Exchange Commission Bangladesh SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Quarterly Review January - March 2008 A publication of the SEC Securities and Exchange Commission Jiban Bima Tower ( Floor 15, 16 & 20 ) 10, Dilkusha Commercial Area Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh Phone: 9568101-2, 9561525 Fax: (88)-02-9563721 Website: http//:www.secbd.org E-mail: secbd@bdmail.net Price: TK. 25.00 only SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Quarterly Review January - March 2008 TOPIC 1. Capital Market News 2. Corporate Finance 3. Capital Issue Department C O N T E N T S 4 7 8 11 13 14 20 22 23 24 25 4. Supervision and Regulation of Markets and Intermediaries 5. Central Depository System Department 6. Registration Department 7. SEC Surveillance Department 8. SEC Enforcement Actions 9. Legal Services Department 10. DSE and CSE Scenario 11. Bangladesh Capital Market Summary CAPITAL MARKET NEWS Establishment of Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) SEC was established in June 1993 through enactment of the Securities and Exchange Commission Act, 1993 as a regulator of capital market of Bangladesh. Missions of SEC ! Ensuring proper issuance of securities ! Protection of the interest of investors in securities; ! Development of the capital and securities markets; and ! Regulation of the capital and securities markets in Bangladesh. Market Performance Dhaka Stock Exchange: As on the end of January-March,...
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...Stock market crash of Bangladesh in 2010-11: Reasons & roles of regulators Sangit Saha Degree Thesis Förnamn Efternamn International Business 2012 DEGREE THESIS Arcada Degree Programme: International Business Identification number: Author: Title: 11497 Sangit Saha Stock market crash of Bangladesh in 2010-11: Reasons & roles of regulators Andreas Stenius Supervisor (Arcada): Commissioned by: Abstract: The aim of the thesis is to determine reasons of the stock market crash in Bangladesh in 2010-11 and roles of the regulators and government since the crash took place. The theoretical background of the study includes brief introduction of Bangladesh stock market with its structure and different regulatory and intermediary organizations. It also describes one international stock market crash and stock market crash of Bangladesh in 1996. For the theoretical part investigation report of Khondkar Ibrahim Khaled is used as the main secondary resource. The report helps to get background of the crash with reasons and role of different regulatory and intermediary organizations. Self-administered questionnaire is used to obtain primary data for the study. The author sent 25 questionnaires to employees of broker houses and general investors but 18 replied. The result of the Self-administered questionnaire helped author to find some other reason behind the stock market crash in addition with reasons provided in the investigation report. Moreover...
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...Securities and Exchange Commission Bangladesh CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENT The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was established on June 8, 1993 under the Securities and Exchange Commission Act 1993 (Act 15 of 1993) as a capital market regulator with a view to ensuring proper issuance of securities, protection of the interest of investors in securities, development of the capital and securities markets, and regulation of the capital and securities markets in Bangladesh. The Commission consists of a chairman and four full time members who are employed by the government for a period of three years renewable for another similar term. The services of the chairman and members of the Commission are also determined by the government. The Chairman is the chief executive officer of the Commission. The country’s capital market witnessed a remarkable turn-around during the fiscal year 2008-2009. There were unmistakable signs of the resurgence of investor’s confidence which suffered a major jolt in the wake of the catastrophic crash of the stock market in 1996. Dhaka Stock Exchange’s (DSE) general index which was introduced on 27th November 2001 with a base of 818 points hardly moved in the following two years with the index increasing by merely five points to reach 823 on 30th June 2003. A significantly higher level was attained during the following year with the index rising to 1319 as of 30 June 2004. Parallely, Chittagong Stock Exchange’s index rose from 1841 as of 30th June 2003 to...
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...Stock market crash in Bangladesh in 2010-2011: * Introduction Stock market is one of the most important financial institutions of any economy as well as Bangladesh. It opens door for companies to raise huge amount of capital from a lot of individual investors inside & outside of a country. Investors participate voluntary to buy ownership of a company in the public market. It is said that stock market is an intermediary institution to adjust a gap between surplus units and deficit units of an economy. In these days for millions of middle class educated people in Bangladesh investing in stocks is more popular than investing in any other investment sectors. For an investor, stocks are more liquid than any other investment sources as it gives ability to sell and buy ownership anytime without any hassle. Since 2007 share prices of Bangladesh stock market have been increasing steadily over the past four years and it outperformed almost all the world´s markets (Amadeo, 2012). The financial year 2008-09 is known for the global financial and economic crisis. Many developed and developing countries fall into recession. However, it could not affect Bangladesh economy greatly. So, the stock market of the country did not see any significant changes or fall. As CPD (2011) reported, financial year 2008-09 was a volatile year but during this year Bangladesh economy benefited from low prices of import-able and was able to avoid negative pressure on its export of goods and services...
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... 1 First Page Previous Page Next Page / 37 Sections not available Zoom Out Zoom In Fullscreen Exit Fullscreen Select View Mode View Mode BookSlideshowScroll Readcast Add a Comment Embed & Share Reading should be social! Post a message on your social networks to let others know what you're reading. Select the sites below and start sharing. Readcast this DocumentTransparent Login to Add a Comment Share & Embed Add to Collections Download this Document for Free Auto-hide: on Quantcast 1. ORIGIN OF THE REPORT This assignment is originated as the course requirement of FIN 335, which is termed to be a major course for the B.B.A program. As this assignment is based on Security Exchange Commission of Bangladesh, so we have to work with limited time. We were assigned the assignment on “Security Exchange Commission” around 30 days ago, and we went around looking for its source of existence and also searched the internet to get enough updated knowledge. 1.1 OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY To present an overview of Security Exchange Commission. The Function...
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...Overview of Financial system of Bangladesh The financial system of Bangladesh is comprised of three broad fragmented sectors: Formal Sector, Semi-Formal Sector, Informal Sector. The sectors have been categorized in accordance with their degree of regulation. The formal sector includes all regulated institutions like Banks, Non-Bank Financial Institutions (FIs), Insurance Companies, Capital Market Intermediaries like Brokerage Houses, Merchant Banks etc.; Micro Finance Institutions (MFIs). The semi formal sector includes those institutions which are regulated otherwise but do not fall under the jurisdiction of Central Bank, Insurance Authority, Securities and Exchange Commission or any other enacted financial regulator. This sector is mainly represented by Specialized Financial Institutions like House Building Finance Corporation (HBFC), Palli Karma Sahayak Foundation (PKSF), Samabay Bank, Grameen Bank etc., Non Governmental Organizations (NGOsand discrete government programs. The informal sector includes private intermediaries which are completely unregulated. [pic] The financial market in Bangladesh is mainly of following types: Money Market: The primary money market is comprised of banks, FIs and primary dealers as intermediaries and savings & lending instruments, treasury bills as instruments. There are currently 15 primary dealers (12 banks and 3 FIs) in Bangladesh. The only active secondary market is overnight call money market which is participated...
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...RECENT TRENDS IN CAPITAL MARKET OF BANGLADESH: CRITICAL EVALUATION OF REGULATION by Syed Golam Shahjarul Alam A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Professional Master in Banking and Finance Examination Committee: Dr. Sundar Venkatesh (Chairperson) Dr. Winai Wongsurawat Dr. Yuosre Badir Nationality: Previous Degree: Bangladeshi Master of Business Administration University of Dhaka Dhaka, Bangladesh Bangladesh Bank (Central Bank of Bangladesh) Scholarship Donor: Asian Institute of Technology School of Management Thailand May2012 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS My greatest Gratitude is given to Dr. Sundar Venkatesh, my project advisor, for his deep insight in capital market, which helped me to accomplish the project paper. His dedication towards teaching, motivating and supervising influenced me greatly, leading to do my project work carefully and seriously. I wish to express my deepest gratitude and appreciation to Bangladesh Bank, My office, for granting me a scholarship, to pursue my Masters in banking and finance. I express my gratitude and deepest appreciation to my friend Ms. Senjuti binte rafiq, My Colleagues in Bangladesh Bank and DSE Library staffs who helped me by providing valuable suggestions and necessary data for my analysis. I am very much thankful to Dr. Winai Wongsurawat and Dr. Juthathip Jongwanich for their valuable suggestions regarding my project. I express my gratitude and deepest appreciation to Ms...
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...RECENT TRENDS IN CAPITAL MARKET OF BANGLADESH: CRITICAL EVALUATION OF REGULATION by Syed Golam Shahjarul Alam A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Professional Master in Banking and Finance Examination Committee: Dr. Sundar Venkatesh (Chairperson) Dr. Winai Wongsurawat Dr. Yuosre Badir Nationality: Previous Degree: Bangladeshi Master of Business Administration University of Dhaka Dhaka, Bangladesh Bangladesh Bank (Central Bank of Bangladesh) Scholarship Donor: Asian Institute of Technology School of Management Thailand May2012 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS My greatest Gratitude is given to Dr. Sundar Venkatesh, my project advisor, for his deep insight in capital market, which helped me to accomplish the project paper. His dedication towards teaching, motivating and supervising influenced me greatly, leading to do my project work carefully and seriously. I wish to express my deepest gratitude and appreciation to Bangladesh Bank, My office, for granting me a scholarship, to pursue my Masters in banking and finance. I express my gratitude and deepest appreciation to my friend Ms. Senjuti binte rafiq, My Colleagues in Bangladesh Bank and DSE Library staffs who helped me by providing valuable suggestions and necessary data for my analysis. I am very much thankful to Dr. Winai Wongsurawat and Dr. Juthathip Jongwanich for their valuable suggestions regarding my project. I express my gratitude and deepest appreciation to Ms...
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