The Financial Express was established in 1993 under International Publications Limited.
Moazzem Hossain was the founding editor of The Financial Express. It has syndication agreement with
Financial Times and
Project Syndicate, based in Prague.
The Financial Express with
Standard Chartered Bank has an annual award program for best
corporate social responsibility in Bangladesh. In August 2018,
AHM Moazzem Hossain, founding editor of the paper, died in
Square Hospital, Dhaka.
The Financial Express news editor, Abdullah M Hasan, died on 17 July 2020 from COVID-19. In May 2021, the executive editor of
The Financial Express, Shahiduzzaman Khan, died from COVID-19. == Awards ==