Topic

CBDC

BRICS nations discuss linking payment systems and CBDCs, RBI chief says

Published 11 Aug, 2026 05:37pm

'Cross-border payments is an area of interest for all of us, including the BRICS, because we feel there is a lot of scope for reducing cost,' Malhotra says

From tariffs to tokens

Published 28 Aug, 2025 06:11am

With America’s obsession to gain revenue by restricting trade through customs and tariffs, a historical similarity...

Digital rupee set to transform Pakistan’s financial landscape

Published 17 Jul, 2025 03:32am

Pakistan is undergoing a profound digital transformation towards digital finance in the financial system with the...

New banknotes to be released by year-end: SBP governor

Published 28 Jan, 2025 06:45am

KARACHI: Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan, Jameel Ahmed, announced that the new design currency notes are...

IMF chief urges more proactive push for central bank digital currencies

Published 16 Nov, 2023 05:39am

LONDON: The head of the International Monetary Fund has urged countries to make a more proactive push to develop...

Raast platform: SBP set to launch ‘P2M’ payment system

Updated 27 Sep, 2023 10:40am

KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) is all set to launch the person-to-merchant (P2M) online payment system on...

BOJ to launch pilot programme in April for issuing digital yen

Published 17 Feb, 2023 10:07am

TOKYO: The Bank of Japan (BOJ) said on Friday it has decided to launch a pilot programme in April for issuing a...

Where you need trust, you need PKI

Published 07 Dec, 2022 06:30am

TEXT: Imran Ashraf is helping companies to leverage the power of PKI and blockchain. His area of intrest is CBDC,...

Digitisation of country’s financial landscape highlighted

Published 23 Nov, 2022 06:58am

KARACHI: In the 15th episode of State Bank of Pakistan’s Podcast series, Sohail Javaad, the executive director of...

China’s digital yuan stands out in cross-border pilot

Published 28 Oct, 2022 05:58am

HONG KONG/ SHANGHAI: China’s digital yuan took the centre stage in the world’s largest cross-border central bank...

SWIFT sets out blueprint for central bank digital currency network

Published 05 Oct, 2022 08:06pm

LONDON: Financial messaging system SWIFT has laid out its blueprint for a global central bank digital currency ...

20 applications received for licences of digital banks: Sima Kamil

Published 17 Jun, 2022 08:20am

KARACHI: As many as 20 entities (both local and foreign) have applied for the licenses of digital banks under the...

Govt seeks $21bn support from China

Updated 08 Mar, 2022 06:43pm

Requests rollover of existing loans of $ 10.735 billion and $ 10 billion as deposit fund

A digital dollar is years away as Fed kicks issue to Congress

Published 25 Jan, 2022 05:03am

While the Federal Reserve’s paper on potentially adopting a central bank digital currency (CBDC) will advance...

Fed says central bank digital dollar could offer benefits

Published 22 Jan, 2022 05:46am

WASHINGTON: An official US digital currency could offer potential benefits to American consumers and businesses, but...

Thai central bank to test retail digital currency later than planned

Published 24 Dec, 2021 02:30pm

BANGKOK: Thailand's central bank said on Friday it expects to test its retail central bank digital currency (CBDC)...

Japan keen to speed up digital yen launch as China adds geopolitical twist

Published 01 Dec, 2021 12:11pm

TOKYO: Japan's new political leadership is calling on the country's financial bureaucrats to ramp up efforts toward...

China will advance development of eCNY

Published 10 Nov, 2021 05:47am

BEIJING: China will continue to advance the development of its central bank digital currency and improve its design...

G7 finance leaders lay out guidelines for central bank digital currencies

Published 14 Oct, 2021 12:17pm

Group of Seven advanced economies said on Wednesday that any digital currency issued by a central bank must "support...

French and Swiss central banks to trial wholesale digital currencies

Published 10 Jun, 2021 05:58pm

The experiment will focus on the bank-to-bank 'wholesale' lending market rather than everyday public transactions but will be the first time a digital euro and Swiss franc have been fully tested.
The eurozone is adapting to a "strong trend" towards the digitalisation of payments," said Bank of France Deputy Governor Sylvie Goulard.

Bank Indonesia joins global push for digital currencies

Published 31 May, 2021 03:12am

JAKARTA: Indonesia’s central bank is planning to launch a digital rupiah currency and is assessing which platform...

Digital Dollar Project to launch five US central bank digital currency pilots

Published 03 May, 2021 04:58pm

A partnership between Accenture and the Digital Dollar Foundation, the Digital Dollar Project was created last year to promote research into a US central bank digital currency (CBDC).
CBDCs are the digital equivalent of banknotes and coins, giving holders a direct digital claim on the central bank and allowing them to make instant electronic payments.

'Britcoin' not bitcoin? UK considers new digital currency

Published 19 Apr, 2021 04:27pm

UK creates BoE-Treasury taskforce to look at 'digital pound'.
Sunak focused on boosting London's competitiveness after Brexit.
Britain will lift curbs on who can trade shares in London.
Britain will ease limit on off-exchange share trading.

BoJ sees scope to set common rules on CBDCs with major central banks

If necessary, the central bank will launch a pilot programme that involves payment service providers and end users, BOJ Executive Director Shinichi Uchida said last month.

BOJ must prepare 'thoroughly' on digital currency, says Kuroda

Published 16 Mar, 2021 12:03pm

While the BOJ currently has no plan to issue CBDC, central banks must not wait idly until the need to roll out its own digital currency arises, he told a seminar.

BR100
BR30
KSE100
KSE30
KMI30

1D 5D 3M 6M 1Y

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Sep 29	277.32
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Sep 29	277.12
USD to Japanese Yen / Sep 30	157.03
USD to Swiss Franc / Sep 30	0.83
Pound Sterling to USD / Sep 30	1.32
Euro to USD / Sep 30	1.13
SOFR % / Sep 28	3.90

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Sep 29	7,670.84
Nasdaq / Sep 29	26,797.54
Dow Jones / Sep 29	51,349.92
India Sensex / Sep 30	72,729.39
Tokyo Nikkei / Sep 30	66,728.56
Hang Seng / Sep 30	24,534.37
FTSE 100 / Sep 30	10,714.17
Germany DAX 30 / Sep 30	25,546.29
France CAC40 / Sep 30	8,055.71

Item	Value
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Sep 29	18,780
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Sep 29	374,945
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Sep 30	89.69
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Sep 30	4,309.98
Cotton US¢/pound / Sep 30	79.18
Petrol/Litre / Oct 1	387.54
Diesel/Litre / Oct 1	402.24

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Colony Tex.Mills Ltd / Sep 30 Colony Textile Mills Limited(CTM)	7.26 ▲ 1 (15.97%)
Kohinoor Spinning / Sep 30 Kohinoor Spinning Mills Limited(KOSM)	5.73 ▲ 0.77 (15.52%)
Lse Spac-I Ltd. / Sep 30 Lse Spac-I Limited(SPAC1)	20.41 ▲ 1.86 (10.03%)
Tri-Star Mutual / Sep 30 Tri-Star Mutual Fund Limited(TSMF)	16.57 ▲ 1.51 (10.03%)
Sindh Modaraba / Sep 30 Sindh Modaraba(SINDM)	33.28 ▲ 3.03 (10.02%)
Ghazi Fabrics / Sep 30 Ghazi Fabrics International Limited(GFIL)	26.38 ▲ 2.4 (10.01%)
Asim Textile / Sep 30 Asim Textile Mills Limited(ASTM)	113.96 ▲ 10.36 (10%)
Dadex Eternit / Sep 30 Dadex Eternit Limited(DADX)	150.32 ▲ 13.67 (10%)
First Punjab Modaraba / Sep 30 First Punjab Modaraba(FPJM)	29.04 ▲ 2.64 (10%)
Oilboy Energy / Sep 30 Oilboy Energy Limited(OBOY)	18.59 ▲ 1.69 (10%)

Stock	Price
Ashfaq Textile / Sep 30 Ashfaq Textile Mills Limited(ASHT)	50.57 ▼ -5.62 (-10%)
Ghani Chemworld Limited(PRS) / Sep 30 Ghani Chemworld Limited(PRS)(GCWLPRS)	118.83 ▼ -13.16 (-9.97%)
Burj Clean Energy Modaraba / Sep 30 Burj Clean Energy Modaraba(GEM)(GEMBCEM)	11.25 ▼ -1.15 (-9.27%)
The Thal Ind.Corp. / Sep 30 The Thal Industries Corporation Limited(TICL)	918.13 ▼ -92.07 (-9.11%)
Pakistan Services / Sep 30 Pakistan Services Limited(PSEL)	1,019.63 ▼ -99.15 (-8.86%)
Mandviwala / Sep 30 Mandviwala Mauser Plastic Industries(MWMP)	77.07 ▼ -7.14 (-8.48%)
S.G.Power / Sep 30 S.G. Power Limited(SGPL)	23.41 ▼ -1.84 (-7.29%)
D.M. Corporation / Sep 30 D.M. Corporation Limited(DMC)	165.33 ▼ -11.63 (-6.57%)
Cordoba Logistics / Sep 30 Cordoba Logistics & Ventures Limited(CLVL)	28.32 ▼ -1.94 (-6.41%)
EMCO Industries / Sep 30 Emco Industries Limited(EMCO)	32.10 ▼ -1.93 (-5.67%)

Stock	Volume
Pak Int.Bulk / Sep 30 Pakistan International Bulk Terminal(PIBTL)	73,446,994 ▲ 0.11
Kohinoor Spinning / Sep 30 Kohinoor Spinning Mills Limited(KOSM)	58,387,095 ▲ 0.77
Tasdeeq Info. Serv. / Sep 30 Tasdeeq Information Services Limited(TISL)	50,882,891 ▼ -0.09
Cnergyico PK / Sep 30 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	28,308,841 ▲ 0.03
D.S. Ind. Ltd. / Sep 30 D.S. Industries Limited(DSIL)	21,823,804 ▲ 1.27
Arif Habib Corp / Sep 30 Arif Habib Corporation Limited(AHCL)	17,873,579 ▲ 0.1
Pak Refinery / Sep 30 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	17,817,038 ▲ 0.45
WorldCall Telecom / Sep 30 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	17,431,935 ▼ -0.01
S.G.Power / Sep 30 S.G. Power Limited(SGPL)	16,575,953 ▼ -1.84
F. Nat.Equities / Sep 30 First National Equities Limited(FNEL)	14,238,200 ▲ 0

CBDC

Most Popular