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The study was motivated by the need to highlight the roles played by social media marketing on consumers' purchase intention during the COVID-19 pandemic. Since it was a quantitative study, hypotheses were tested to generate findings. We used IBM SPSS 25.0 software to analyze using reliability statistics, descriptive statistics, and IBM SPSS Amos 26.0 software was used to do confirmatory factor analysis for the purpose of developing hypothesis, and SEM used for trying to fit the model. The primary data was mustered by personal interview in an online survey method through a structured questionnaire with five-point Likert scales from 240 Bangladeshi online consumers. These findings publicized that social media marketing (Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube) a significant stimulus on consumers purchase intention during COVID-19, and all factors except discount or coupon offer and brand awareness had an epoch-making and constructive connection with consumers’ purchase intention during the coronavirus malady (COVID-19) epidemic in Bangladesh.

Islamic banking is based on profit and loss mechanism where the use of interest is prohibited.  Unlike conventional banks, these banks do not charge a specific rate of interest, rather provides financing in exchange for profit sharing.  However, there are studies claiming that, in practice, Islamic banking is same as conventional banking with regard to the use of interest. It is also claimed that, Islamic deposits are not interest-free, but are closely attached to conventional deposits.  On this background, the objective of this study is to examine the relationship between pricing in Islamic banks vis-à-vis conventional banks by taking the case of Bangladesh. We have used monthly data during the period of 2009-2013. The findings of the study showed that, there is no statistically significant difference between the monthly average lending rates of Islamic banks and conventional banks. However, there is significant difference between deposit rates. The existence of causal relationship was inconclusive, and requires further analysis.