The Bangladesh Bank has raised transaction limits for mobile financial service (MFS) providers such as bKash, Rocket, and Nagad ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr, a time when money flow in the economy typically increases.
bKash and Huawei have been awarded the GSMA GLOMO ‘Best FinTech Innovation’ Award at MWC Barcelona 2025 for their digital loan solution, ‘Pay Later’, which provides short-term microloans to unbanked users in Bangladesh.
The 16th edition of the Bangladesh Brand Forum's Best Brand Awards celebrated the achievements of 44 brands across distinct categories at a grand gala event held on 26 December 2024 at the Intercontinental Dhaka.
The campaign emphasizes how transitioning to cashless transactions can simplify daily life
bKash, the leading mobile financial service (MFS) provider in Bangladesh, has joined hands with Grameenphone and City Bank to make 4G and 5G enabled smartphones more affordable for their clients.
Mobile financial service provider bKash logged a profit of Tk 103.9 crore in 2023, up by a massive 504 percent year-on-year
bKash has reportedly retrieved mistakenly sent BDT 50 coupons from users, as detailed in posts circulating on Facebook. Several users shared screenshots from 'bKashNotice', alleging that bKash had erroneously distributed BDT 50 coupons, only to retract them subsequently.
Subject to eligibility, customers can instantly borrow Tk 500 to Tk 30,000 to directly buy a product or service. No interest will be imposed if the loan is repaid within seven days.
City Bank and bKash today jointly launched the new service “Pay-Later”, a special collateral-free digital nano loan that facilitates payments with interest-free funds through the bKash app
After years of support for La Albiceleste from countries like Bangladesh, India, and China, the AFA has devised diverse brand expansion programmes. This partnership is the expression of that trajectory and greater scope.
The MFS provider made a profit for the first time in four years
Once a customer binds bKash as the preferred payment method, he/she will no longer need to put in OTP/PIN every time
Leading mobile financial service provider bKash has once again been ranked as the number one ‘Employer of Choice’ across all sectors for the third consecutive year, according to the results of the ‘Campus Track Survey B-school: 2022’ conducted by NielsenIQ.
The Directorate of Primary Education has proposed that stipends for school students be disbursed only through Nagad, a mobile-banking service.
The Bangladeshi startup ecosystem has seen remarkable growth in the past few years with approximately 1,200 active startups across sectors, including fintech, logistics, healthcare, tourism, agriculture and education. In fact, startups like ShopUp, bKash, Pathao, Chaldal, Maya, Shajgoj, and iFarmer have innovated new products and processes to transform the market and have attracted millions of dollars in foreign investments for Bangladesh along with creating thousands of new jobs.
Leading mobile financial service provider bKash has been honoured by the National Board of Revenue (NBR) as the highest value-added tax (VAT) payer in the services sector at the national level for fiscal year 2020-21.
Mohammad Azmal Huda, chief product and technology officer of bKash, won the “Chief Technology Officer of the Year” award for his significant contribution in enabling people with digital transactions through fintech innovations at the “Bangladesh C-Suite Awards 2022” in Dhaka recently.
Users of a mobile financial service (MFS) provider can now transfer money to their counterparts registered with other operators and banks as interoperability among the financial service providers comes into a reality today.
Kamal Quadir founded bKash in 2010, as a subsidiary of Brac Bank, with just 37 employees. Under his leadership, bKash has now grown to be one of the top fintech companies in Bangladesh with a workforce of more than 1,700 employees and 300,000 agents.
