Banking IMF’s carrot; stick may follow The IMF’s first post programme monitoring was finally conducted earlier this week, and a press release was issued in the Published 09 Mar, 2018 06:50am
Banking Reserves and reservations The struggle to keep foreign reserves intact is getting difficult day by day. After a fall of $358 million in third week Published 08 Mar, 2018 06:27am
Banking The Chinese debt There is no surprise in the fact that China is the biggest lender to Pakistan, including both public and private debt. T Updated 09 Mar, 2018 08:30am
Banking The slide in SME finance The efforts to boost SME finance are clearly not yielding results. Analysis of central bank data reveals that loans to S Published 05 Mar, 2018 06:38am
Banking Pakistan’s ‘Nagori’ problem Few could deny noticing ‘Nagori’ milk shops scattered across big and small cities of this country; the billboards of mos Published 28 Feb, 2018 06:19am
Banking Allied Bank in CY17 Allied Bank Limited (ABL) saw its bottom line tank year-on-year in CY17. That was not a surprise. Recall that earning sp Published 23 Feb, 2018 07:50am
Banking The tale of twin deficit The current account deficit stood at $1.6 billion in Jan - third highest ever in the history of the country. No wonder t Updated 22 Feb, 2018 08:11am
Banking UBL expands asset base UBL continued with its rich dividend payout, doling out another Rs4/share in final cash dividend, taking the full year C Published 21 Feb, 2018 06:07am
Banking M-wallets: dormant much Apparently, there is no stopping the surge of mobile accounts in Pakistan. As per the latest statistics on the branchles Published 20 Feb, 2018 06:42am
Banking Living off the debt The external scorecard is getting red with every passing quarter; and now the weekly numbers are becoming crucial. The r Published 20 Feb, 2018 06:37am
Banking FDI key in breaking the export curse Sounds good but equally hard as the FDI coming into the country is not only short but also very specific in terms of sec Published 19 Feb, 2018 04:29am
Banking Bank AL Habib posts solid results Bank AL Habib Limited (BAHL) posted its full year CY17 financial results yesterday, posting a decent growth in bottom li Published 15 Feb, 2018 06:25am
Banking Remittances: how long will breather last By September 2017, remittance hearts were sinking. By January 2018, there has been some respite, a much-needed one. But Published 14 Feb, 2018 06:14am
Banking Is the IMF’s knock coming? The economic authorities are burning the ammunition fast to not let the reserves fall in an effort to prolong macroecono Updated 07 Mar, 2018 07:30am
Banking Consumer confidence drops further Amid rising per capita income and controlled inflation, isn’t it a bit odd that consumer confidence in Pakistan has been Updated 02 Feb, 2018 08:14am
Banking Is credit off-take tapering off? Until October 2017, private sector credit was only going to the textile sector (figuratively speaking). Two months onwar Published 01 Feb, 2018 05:48am
Banking Reaping fruits of currency adjustment The tightening cycle has already started without jacking up the interest rates. The rupee depreciated by 5 percent again Updated 27 Jan, 2018 08:52am
Banking The anatomy of SME finance Is SME finance beginning to take off in Pakistan? Consider this: net outstanding credit in the country rose by Rs110 bil Published 22 Jan, 2018 05:20am
Banking BoP: where is the LNG? The current account deficit stood at $7.4 billion (4.4% of GDP) in 1HFY18; up by 59 percent year-on-year. The growing CA Updated 23 Jan, 2018 05:19am
Banking FDI in 1HFY18 Foreign direct investment for the first six months of FY18 stands at $1,381.7 million, down by around 3 percent year-on- Published 18 Jan, 2018 09:56am
Banking SME clinics Yesterday’s piece on SME flagged the need for better understanding of demand side of SME finance – especially from motiv Published 17 Jan, 2018 06:11am
Banking SME finance: getting the basics right Pakistan needs to grow SME finance. That is the oft cited mantra at various public and private forums where they discuss Published 16 Jan, 2018 06:49am
Banking Good signs for remittances The slowdown in home remittances has been flagged as a concern too many times for a country that depends on these inflow Updated 16 Jan, 2018 07:08am
Banking To-do list for ADB Pakistan The ADB Pakistan office has lately been touring provincial capitals in the country to seek ideas on how it can support e Published 12 Jan, 2018 06:30am
Banking Currency turbulence in session The currency movement is the talk of the town! The rupee dollar parity fluctuated recently in the open market is jolting Published 11 Jan, 2018 07:26am
Banking The new dollar? This year is dawned with the possibility of use of Yuan for denominating foreign currency transactions in Pakistan. The Published 04 Jan, 2018 06:30am
Banking Stagnating deposits growth? The money supply growth is shrinking this fiscal year so far whilst the lion’s share of the tiny increase is taken by cu Updated 29 Dec, 2017 11:35am
Banking CAD: high time to curtail imports There is no respite to current account deficit. It stood at $1.4 billion in Nov-2017 to make the Jul-Nov deficit touch $ Published 22 Dec, 2017 08:04am
Banking Chinese FDI rise offsets fall in non-Sino inflows The story of foreign direct investments (FDI) in Pakistan in November 2017 is little changed from what happened in first Published 19 Dec, 2017 07:32am
Banking Banking sector in good health Banks are making lesser profits than they were last year. Yet, they are healthier than last year. The balance sheets hav Published 15 Dec, 2017 08:25am