Bangladesh's Summit Group looks to Singapore for its capital-raising needs
Its Singapore-based Summit Power International is widening its hunt for new projects and those beyond Bangladesh, even as it minds existing ones and the ESG arena
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MUHAMMED Aziz Khan, the boss of a privately-held company owning a string of power plants in Bangladesh, has definite ideas about the sort of commercial relationship Singapore should have with Bangladesh.
In a recent interview with The Business Times, he said: "Singapore should think of itself as a Manhattan, and Bangladesh as one of the states of the US. I think that is becoming the future role of cities like Singapore.
"Bangladesh, rather than try to raise another capital market, should take advantage of the Singapore capital market - debt as well as equity."
Mr Khan is the chairman and principal owner of the Singapore-based Summit Powe…
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