About TREDX
Bangladesh Bank has conducted numerous industry association, and financier consultations over the last two years to explore ways to ease access to finance for MSME suppliers. Based on those consultations and internal deliberations, Bangladesh Bank has approved guidelines for setting up and operating a digital platform for facilitating the financing of trade receivables of MSMEs from corporate and other buyers, including Government Departments and Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs), through multiple financiers.TREDX is the brand name of this digital platform that is being setup by Think Big Solutions.
Following are the Salient Features of the guidelines:
Unified platform for Sellers, Buyers and Financiers
Competitive Discount Rates
Easy Access to Funds
Completely Digital
Seamless Data Flow to all participants
Single source of truth
Our Clients
Co-founders
Think Big Solutions was incorporated on 19th May 2019 as a limited company in Bangladesh.We are the first and only company in Bangladesh to have been provided a license by the Bangladesh Bank on 18th January 2022 to operate a Nationwide Digital Platform for Local Factoring/Receivable Finance.
Our Co-founders bring years of international banking and consulting experience and domestic expertise to solve the access to finance problem faced by MSMEs in Bangladesh.
A Kasem Khan
Abul Kasem Khan is an entrepreneur having over 25 years of business experience.
Served as President of Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) in 2010, 2017 & 2018.
Former Chairperson, Business Initiative Leading Development (BUILD). Co-chair of the Standing Committee on Logistics Infrastructure Development Committee Chaired by Secretary, Prime Minister’s Office. Shareholder Board Member of AK Khan & Co. Ltd.
Currently, also serving as Director, Federation of Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) and Director, Bangladesh Thai Chamber of Commerce & Industry (BTCCI). Member, Bangladesh Investment Climate Fund (BICF). Former Director Titas Gas Ltd, Dhaka WASA, BSCCL, DSE.
RAJA DEBNATH
Raja Debnath is a Supply Chain Finance and MSME technology and advisory professional turned entrepreneur
He is a former World Bank Group, IFC’s Senior Global Advisory for Supply Chain Finance and SME Banking and has advised over 25 FIs globally. He setup the Supply Chain Finance and SME Banking advisory practice team at IFC South Asia and launched Supply Chain Finance programs in multiple countries across Asia and Middle East
He is a Director, Investor, Advisor with multiple fintechs in the Supply Chain Finance and MSME financing space He continues working with Asian Development Bank through his advisory firm, Cogence Labs, advising FIs on setting up Supply Chain Finance businesses
He is working on the largest financial inclusion project in Asia, where he is bringing together 1500+ small cooperative banks under a single umbrella in India
Masrur Reaz
Dr. M. Masrur Reaz is an economist and entrepreneur specializing in private sector economy, and a former Senior Economist/Program Manager at the World Bank Group who worked in several countries in East Asia and Pacific, and South Asia regions.
He is currently the Chairman and CEO of Policy Exchange Bangladesh, a private sector advisory firm focusing on economic policy and investment advisory for private sector growth and creation of markets.
Dr. Reaz is a member of national-level public-private coordination and dialogue platform on Logistics Sector development, co-chaired by the Senior Secretary Prime Minister’s Office of Bangladesh and Chairperson of BUILD, and a member of Business and Human Rights Committee of Bangladesh National Human Rights Commission.