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The prize bond scheme was launched with a Prize Bond of Rs 100. The scheme has been expanded over time. Today we can find around six Prize Bonds including Rs 100, 200, 750, 1500, 25000 and Rs 40000.
Originally bonds could be purchased as in units of five Irish pounds, with a minimum purchase of £10. Today the unit price is 6.25 Euros (equivalent to IR£4.92 at the final fixed exchange rate) and a minimum purchase of €25 is required. In September 2009 the Prize Bond fund exceeded €1bn for the first time. [3]
Bangladesh Saving Certificates- This five year saving scheme provides return of around 12.2% at maturity with varying degree of returns for premature withdrawal depending on the duration of investment. Maximum allowable investment in this scheme is capped to Tk 30,00,000/- for individual investors and Tk 60,00,000/- for joint investors.
Toffee (Bengali: টফি) is an over-the-top streaming service available in Bangladesh, owned by Banglalink. [1] It offers a library of films, foreign tv shows, live sports and live tv channels. It also has video sharing feature and content creators can earn by monetizing their channel.
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All prizes are tax free and, with approximately 84 billion bonds issued, the chances of any one bond winning a prize for a given month are approximately 24500 to 1. However, if a bond wins a prize, that bond is not redeemed but remains 'in the pool' for all forthcoming draws (at least until the bond-holder decides to redeem it.).
By the mid-1990s, the bank started to get most of its funding from the central bank of Bangladesh. [23] More recently, Grameen has started bond sales as a source of finance. [23] The bonds are implicitly subsidised, as they are guaranteed by the Government of Bangladesh, and still they are sold above the bank rate. [23]
The bonds are entered in a monthly prize draw and the government promises to buy them back, on request, for their original price. The government pays interest into the bond fund (4.15% per annum in December 2024 but decreasing to 4% in January 2025) [ 1 ] from which a monthly lottery distributes tax-free prizes to bondholders whose numbers are ...