Dhaka, July 10 -- The stock market regulator is set to suspend trading in shares of non-operational companies as part of a broader market reform aimed at protecting investors and improving market integrity, said its new chief.

"There is no other market in the world where shares of closed companies continue to be traded," said Masud Khan, chairman of the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC), as the chief guest at the CMJF Talk, organised by the Capital Market Journalists' Forum (CMJF) at the CMJF Auditorium in the capital on Thursday.

"In many countries, [share] trading is automatically halted if a company's production remains suspended for three consecutive months." In Bangladesh, many companies have remained non-operati...