CHIEF OF NEW BANGLADESH FINANCIAL REPORTING REGULATOR RELISHES NEW ROLE

  THE CHIEF of an incoming regulator charged with ensuring quality financial reporting and corporate governance in Bangladesh’s major companies is looking forward to the challenge. CQK Mustaq Ahmed is chairman of the three-year-old Financial Reporting Council (FRC), an agency still being built and should start effective operations by September 30. (2019) The FRC was established in April 2016 under the Financial Reporting Act (FRA) 2015 as a watchdog for major Bangladesh companies, the vast majority being unlisted and hence not regulated by the ...


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