The Institute of Bankers, Bangladesh (IBB)

1. Analytical Quality

The article should discuss the selected issue clearly and should use relevant statistical tools or analytical methods to justify the findings properly.

2. Data and References

Both primary and secondary data should be properly presented and supported by appropriate references.

3. Length of Article

Articles should remain within the page limit prescribed by the Journal and should ideally be presented in a concise and well-structured format.

4. Word Limit

The main text should not exceed 4,500 words, excluding the Abstract, Methods, References, and figure legends.

5. Title

The title should be brief, scientifically accurate, and should clearly reflect the main message of the article. It should avoid unnecessary wording, puns, or idiomatic expressions.

6. Abstract

The article should include a concise abstract within the word limit prescribed by the Journal.

Financial System, Policy and Regulation

• Structure and regulation of the financial system
• Role and pricing of financial market instruments
• International monetary reform and new economic order
• Money and business cycles, inflation, interest rates, monetary policy, and debt management
• Interest rates: behavior, risk, and term structure
• Financial sector reforms, interest rate liberalization, provisioning, and Basel-based capital adequacy
• Financial development, economic growth, and financial crisis
• Central bank supervision, monitoring, and independence

Banking, Financial Institutions and Governance

• Financial intermediaries and their importance to economic development and securities markets
• Current issues in international banking
• Islamic finance and banking, including equity-based Islamic finance
• Credit markets and credit analysis, transaction costs, asymmetric information, ICRRS, and political economy of default
• Loan monitoring and recovery techniques
• Management of financial institutions, including asset-liability management, credit risk, interest rate risk, off-balance-sheet activities, and financial innovation
• Banking industry structure, competition, product diversity, cost and scale efficiency, consolidation, prudential regulation, supervision, and governance issues
• Human resource management for banking governance, including planning, training, stress management, creativity, IT in HRM, service regulations, and governance problems and suggestions
• Development financial institutions in Bangladesh: role and problems
• Non-bank financial institutions, leasing companies, savings mobilization, merchant banks, and their prospects and challenges
• Disclosure, financial reporting, sustainability reporting, and corporate governance of banks and financial institutions
• Corporate risk management, equity management risk, and portfolio insurance

Foreign Exchange, Trade and Global Integration

• Foreign exchange markets, currency regimes, convertibility, exchange rate behavior, volatility, Bangladesh’s balance of payments, and exchange risk management
• Globalization and trade liberalization, challenges and threats, export thrust sectors, market identification, product development, tariff structure, and value addition
• Financial market integration in developing countries, regional integration, cross-border integration, and policy implications
• Regionalization, customs union, free trade, SAARC, and SAPTA

Capital Market, Investment and Securities

• Capital market development, bank-based financing versus security-based financing, liquidity, transparency, volatility, and market efficiency
• Regulation of securities markets, over-reaction, bubbles, and stock market crash
• Opportunity for DFI and foreign portfolio investment in emerging capital markets, including risk, return, and investor role
• Reaction of security prices to earnings announcements, dividend, capital structure changes, and other event studies
• Initial public offerings (IPOs), pricing, long-run under-performance, hot issue phenomenon, operating performance, and earnings management
• Mutual funds, growth, performance, timing ability, and selectivity
• Growth, dividend, capital structure, and ownership structure of listed companies in different industries
• Bond market topics including perpetual bonds, subordinated bonds, green bonds, blue bonds, Shariah-compliant Sukuk, Green-Sukuk Al Ijara, and Al Istisnah

Technology, Digital Finance and Innovation

• E-business and e-banking, automation, and electronic data processing in Bangladesh
• Mobile financial services, cashless society, and financial inclusion
• Fintech, blockchain, big data analysis, machine learning, artificial intelligence in banking, and cryptocurrency
• Cyber security
• Crowd funding and P2P lending

Insurance, Microfinance and Development

• Insurance industry structure, conduct, performance, growth, investment portfolio, policies, risk coverage, and actuarial pricing
• Microcredit and MFIs, poverty alleviation, outreach, service delivery models, impact evaluation, sustainability, standardization of accounts, regulation, and governance
• Productivity trends in Bangladesh with special reference to industry and agriculture
• Development of agriculture in Bangladesh and the role of credit

Marketing and Strategy

• Effective bank marketing and financial product development in Bangladesh
• Marketing and corporate strategy for financial institutions
• Market structure, competitive environment, marketing decisions, service design, market research, marketing information systems, and issues in bank marketing