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Institutions
Bank Watch: scheduled banks tracked on stability metrics.
Parliament Watch: members and their activity.
University Watch: the higher-education system, tracked.
NGO Watch: civil society and development NGOs, tracked.
Development Partner Watch: the donors, tracked.
Industry Association Watch: the apex chambers, tracked.
Early warning
The Crisis Orb: a live, level-anchored hazard board.
The LDC 2029 graduation monitor.
The national early-warning board across hazards.
Early warning for the haor flood basin.
The multi-hazard exposure atlas, by district.
Where hazards compound across the same places.
A priority index ranking places by combined risk.
Cropland exposed to flood, heat, and salinity.
The bank distress watch: stress signals across banks.
The disaster ledger: events and losses over time.
Government Watch
regulatory
The BSEC is focused on restoring investor confidence and market liquidity by dismantling legacy regulatory hurdles and floor-price regimes while navigating legal challenges regarding mutual fund reforms.
Masud Khan appointed as BSEC Chairman alongside three new commissioners.
BSEC withdrew floor price restrictions on Beximco Limited and Islami Bank Bangladesh PLC.
BSEC issued a directive for the conversion or liquidation of closed-end mutual funds trading at a 25% discount to NAV.
BSEC met with DSE officials to mandate strengthened real-time market surveillance.
BSEC restored authority to stock exchanges to independently set circuit breakers and trading parameters.
Chairman Masud Khan announced a reform roadmap focusing on digitization and reduced compliance burdens.
BSEC issued an amendment to facilitate separate Omnibus BPIDs for government securities investors.
BSEC was established on 8 June 1993 under the Securities and Exchange Commission Act 1993 (Act XV of 1993) and is a statutory body attached to the Finance Division (not directly to the Ministry of Finance). It regulates the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE), merchant banks, stockbrokers, mutual funds, and credit rating agencies. The current chairman Khondoker Rashed Maqsood -- a former MD of Standard Bank and IFC strategy adviser -- was appointed August 18, 2024 on a four-year term, replacing M Masrur Reaz who was initially named on August 13 but declined to serve; both appointments followed the August 5, 2024 political transition. As of May 17, 2026, his replacement has not been formally gazetted; the Daily Sun (May 15, 2026) reported Masud Khan (Unilever Consumer Care Bangladesh Chairman) as frontrunner but this is unconfirmed. DSEX: April 2026 closing ~5,287, early May ~5,220-5,245 (Trading Economics / DSE data); year-on-year gain ~46% from a low base. BO account figure (16.39 lakh as of December 25, 2025) from CDBL investor statistics page; 2.21 lakh net BO closures December 2022 to December 2025. The zero-IPO period reflects absence of merchant banker applications following the August 2024 political change, not BSEC process failure per se. The BSEC Amendment Bill passed April 30, 2026 alongside a similar IDRA amendment; both bills faced opposition objections but passed by voice vote. All figures verified against 2+ primary sources. [2026-06-08 audit correction] Chairman updated: Khondoker Rashed Maqsood resigned 4 Jun 2026; Masud Khan appointed 4 Jun 2026 (Daily Star/TBS/Dhaka Tribune).