Dhakabiz.com is the first real-time financial information service of Bangladesh. With its ground breaking
software and multi-featured links, Dhakabiz.com presents live and real-time market data, update business
news and online trading platforms to all buyers and sellers involved in businesses in Bangladesh. Former
Governor of Bangladesh Bank Dr. Salehuddin Ahmed inaugurated this world-class Bangladeshi information
service on October 30, 2008.
(BangladeshBank Governor Dr Salehuddin Ahmed inaugurated Dhakabiz.com in a city hotel on Thursday, October 30,2009. Mr. Syed Abu Naser Bukhtear Ahmed, Chairman of Bangladesh Foreign Exchange
Dealers’ Association(BAFEDA),Mr. Syed Ashraf Ali, Chairman of Board of Advisors of Dhakabiz.com (right)
and Mr. Faruk Ahmed, the creator of Dhakabiz.com are also seen in the picture.)
Dhakabiz.com has a team comprising of highly experienced professionals and a world-class Board of Advisors with
deep industry insight. The professionals are guided by the members of the Board of Advisors who are experts in
their fields and committed to protect the rights of consumers and small investors of Bangladesh.
The present Board was formed on January 12, 2008 with the following personalities for a two-year tenure:
(1) Chairman –
Mr. Syed Ashraf Ali
Former Executive Director, Bangladesh Bank
(2) Member Secretary:
Mr. Faruk Ahmed
President, Bangladesh Journalists’ Forum for Consumers and Investors (BJFCI)
(3) Advisors :
(i) Mr. Kha Ma Haroon
Deputy Director General Progrm, Bangladesh Television
(ii) Mr Shahiduzzaman Khan
Executive Editor,The Financial Express.
(iii) Mr. Neaz Rahim,
President, Bangladesh Superstore Owners’ Association.
(iv) Mrs. Shamim Ara,
Managing Editor,BID
(v) Mr. Enamul Haque,
Secretary General, BJFCI
Dhakabiz.com is the brain child of Mr. Faruk Ahmed, a senior financial journalist and President of Bangladesh
Journalists Forum for Consumers and Investors (BJFCI) who founded Bazaar Information & Development (BID)
, the country’s first financial news media in 2000. Mr. Ahmed started his career as a full-time journalist in
1990 with United News of Bangladesh (UNB) and currently working in the national news agency Bangladesh Sangbad
Sangtha (BSS) as a Senior Staff Reporter. He also worked in The Financial Express, The Bangladesh Observer and
The News Today in different capacities.
During his professional career both in press and electronics media, Mr. Faruk Ahmed introduced some new
dimensions in reporting on stock market, call money market and foreign exchange market of Bangladesh. His
outstanding performance is the Bank Rating on the country's 22 commercial banks in 1999- first of its kind in
Bangladesh. The rating was appreciated by the then central bank governor Dr. Mohammed Farashuddin and covered
by national dailies.
In Tv media, Mr. Ahmed in 1993 launched Taka Ana Kori, a weekly business program of BTV. Later he also
presented another three exclusive weekly business programs in reputed Tv channels- Shilpa Banijja Artha in BTV, Bazaar Shamacher in BTV, muktabazar in channel-i, Bazaar Update in R-tv.
Syed Ashraf Ali, the chairman of the Board of Advisors worked in the Bangladesh Bank for a long time. He is a
reputed expert in foreign exchange market and has written many books, articles particularly for the development of foreign exchange and money market of Bangladesh.
OUR TEAM
Dhakabiz.com is a product of
Bazaar Information & Development(BID), the country’s first financial news
media. Associated with national dailies and global Tv networks, BID has been disseminating various market
information through national dailies and TV networks and organizing seminars, meetings, discussions, to
guide sellers-buyers, consumers and investors since its inception in 2000.
BID has two arms. It acts as a financial news agency for both print and electronics media and
also as a research-based social organization to act as a market watch-dog for the interests of consumers and investors.
BID has a team comprising of highly experienced professionals and a world-class board of advisors with
deep industry insight into the business and media. Since its inception, BID gathered some dedicated
professionals of different organisations to work as researchers, reporters, communicators and organizers. It
has built its team around a commitment to deliver top quality results thanks to part-time
involvements of efficient experienced journalists, producers and other technical persons at very high
honorariums.
Mrs. Shamim Ara Ahmed, the former Executive Editor of Bangladesh Express is the Managing Editor and CEO
of BID.She leads the BID team as per guidelines of the Board of Advisors. Mr. Faruk Ahmed acts as
honorary secretary general of the organisation.
BID published Special Business Supplements and regular business pages in reputed English dailies,
broadcasted Business Programs in popular TV channels such as Market Scene in The Financial
Express, Market Observer in The Bangladesh Observer, Bazar Today in The News Today, Bazar
Shamacher in BTV and Muktabazar in Channel i and Bazar Update in R-tv. The key areas of BID
is financial markets and real estate sector.
In Real Estate sector, BID has been playing a vital role to promote developers and create buyers both home and
abroad since 2002. It broadcast news, interviews and investigative stories on real estate sector in its Tv
programmes-Bazar Shamacher of BTV, Moktabazar of Channel-i and Bazar Update of R
-tv. It also focused this potential sector in The Bangladesh Observer, The News Today and The
Financial Express.
In collaboration with BJFCI, BID organized seminar titled "The Real Problems of the Real Estate Sector"
with the National Press Club and published 3 colorful full-page supplements in the Prothom Alo, the daily
Jugantor and the daily Iftafaq in 2008, that influenced policy makers to remove a number of harmful
clauses in the policy for real estate management.
BID is planning to broadcast business news in popular TV channels daily basis very soon.
PACKAGE SERVICES
Based on a ground breaking software, Dhakabiz.com has developed some unique devices that provide local
banks, FIs and both institutional and individual market players real-time global market data, facilitate
online trading facilities to buy/sell money, currencies, plots, flats etc and update financial news.
Currently Dhakabiz.com offers the following package services:
For banks and financial institutions, Dhakabiz.com offers Banking Package that has
two separate services- DhakaBanking and DhakaMoney-2009. The DhakaBanking provides Live FX rates, real-time commodity prices, news and market analyses while the DhakaMoney-2009 is a dealing system that
supports money dealers to buy/sell call money, repo, treasury bills, bonds etc online. The package has been
developed with the support of Bangladesh Bank and the active support and guidelines of Bangladesh Foreign
Exchange Dealers Association (BAFEDA), Primary Dealers Association Bangladesh Limited (PDBL) and Bangladesh
Money Dealers Association (BAMDA).
For real estate sector, Dhakabiz.com offers RealBazar, a digital market for Bangladesh real estate products.
The RealBazar displays only genuine plots and flats of all developer companies in a single location. Besides,
it has a live Trading Platform equipped with a Dealing Room where any buyer can quote prices to attract
expected buyers/developers and can make deal directly free of cost. To establish transparency in real estate
and attract global buyers, this service is being implemented in association with Real Estate and Housing
Association of Bangladesh (REHAB).
A watch-dog body comprising of journalists and developers will monitor the trading through the RealBazar to
protect the rights of real estate buyers and investors.
Dhakabiz.com is going to launch another exclusive service named as DhakaBusiness to provide update prices of
commodities and market guidelines specially designed for importers, exporters and new business people of
Bangladesh.
