Senior officials of the Bangladesh Securities Exchange and Commission on Sunday held a meeting with a section of investors who have been protesting at continued plunges in share prices.
BSEC executive director and spokesperson Mohammad Rezaul Karim said that the commission listened to their demands and suggestions.
The commission will take them into account in executing reforms, he said.
BSEC officials said that the investors in the meeting said that the commission should give priority to bringing back investors鈥� confidence in the market.
They said that the investors also demanded actions against irregularities.
However, after the meeting the investors continued their protests for the third day and formed a human chain in front of the BSEC building at Agargaon in the capital Dhaka.
They demanded that BSEC chairman Khondoker Rashed Maqsood resign.
They sought the chief adviser鈥檚 intervention in this regard.
Police and army personnel were deployed in front of the BSEC to keep the situation under control.
Another section of investors held a protest rally at Motijheel in the capital at the continued decline in share prices.
October 2, protesters said that the Bangladesh Securities Exchange and Commission should bring back the investors鈥� confidence in the market on a priority basis.
They said that other financial sectors were taking visible steps about reforms in the respective sectors, but the stock market regulator body was yet to announce any such steps.
After the fall of Awami Legue government on August 5 amid a student-led mass uprising, stock prices on the Dhaka Stock Exchange witnessed a significant rise amid the investors鈥� optimism.
However, the indices started going down after a few sessions and have continued the negative trend since then.
DSEX, the key index of the DSE, decreased by 83.80 points after inching up by 8.58 points in the previous day.