Dhaka, June 21 -- A study gets going to find ways of developing a robust securitisation market in Bangladesh to enable lenders and financing companies to raise capital and enhance liquidity, officials said.

The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private-sector arm of the World Bank Group, is conducting the study with hired foreign consultancies as securitisation activity in Bangladesh has remained stymied.

Securitisation is a form of off-balance-sheet financing that involves pooling financial assets and issuing securities that are repaid using the cash flows generated by those assets. Securitisation enables lenders and financing companies to raise capital and enhance liquidity.

The IFC study seeks to list out barriers, gaps, ...