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FinTech revolutionises Pakistan’s financial landscape

The global ascent of FinTech is heralding a transformative era in financial landscapes worldwide. Pioneering...

Published 27 Jan, 2024 06:20am

Business & Finance

Faysal Bank announces strategic collaboration with OPay

KARACHI: Faysal Bank Limited, a leading Islamic financial institution known for its commitment to technological...

Published 26 Jan, 2024 04:58am

Team reaches UAE to remove bottlenecks

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s key team comprising caretaker Minister for Commerce and Industries, Gohar Ijaz has reached...

Updated 05 Jan, 2024 09:17am

Business & Finance

BOP forges strategic alliance with PayNet

LAHORE: The Bank of Punjab (BOP), recognized as one of the nation’s premier commercial banks, has embarked on a...

Published 29 Sep, 2023 06:24am

Business & Finance

easypaisa, foodpanda partner for seamless payment

KARACHI: easypaisa and foodpanda have joined hands to introduce seamless payment options for customers. Users will...

Published 01 Sep, 2023 05:41am

Business & Finance

Payment innovation: SCB and Mastercard join hands

KARACHI: Standard Chartered Bank Pakistan Ltd and Mastercard have signed an exclusive strategic partnership to...

Published 19 May, 2023 06:17am

Business & Finance

HABIBMETRO, IDEMIA and VISA kick off tokenisation & digital card programme

KARACHI: In continuation of its innovation journey, HABIBMETRO, in collaboration with VISA, commenced its...

Published 17 Mar, 2023 06:15am

Business & Finance

Potential of digital payment ecosystem highlighted

ISLAMABAD: Executive Vice President of Global Business Development, Omar El Gammal said there is incredible ...

Published 26 Feb, 2023 03:27am

FY21-22: digital payments take a rising trajectory

KARACHI, The digital payment ecosystem of Pakistan continued to grow as the overall e-banking transactions witnessed...

Updated 24 Dec, 2022 10:06am

Business & Finance

Telemart, NIFT ePay team up to provide great digital payment experience

KARACHI: Telemart collaborates with NIFT ePay to provide a superior digital payment experience to its customers. ...

Published 07 Dec, 2022 05:54am

Markets

KE partners with Faysal Bank to provide bill installment facility

KARACHI: In furtherance to its efforts to maximise customer convenience, K-Electric has partnered with Faysal Bank...

Published 15 Sep, 2022 05:57am

Business & Finance

Credit, debit cards: Careem introduces digital payment visibility for ‘captains’

KARACHI: Careem has introduced visibility for credit/ debit card payments to all its ‘captains’ across Karachi,...

Published 14 Sep, 2022 04:45am

Senate body rejects key proposals of Finance Bill

ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Finance has rejected some key provisions of the Finance Supplementary...

Updated 11 Jan, 2022 09:34am

BR Research

M-wallets: Slowing down?

The rise in branchless banking (BB) segment mid-pandemic has been well-documented. However, the recent release of...

Published 04 Jan, 2022 08:04am

BR Research

Digitizing tax

The new income tax law for any company making cumulative annual payment of beyond Rs250,000 from any single account...

Updated 30 Nov, 2021 03:35pm

BR Research

Booming e-banking

Concentration of digital payments is improving in the banking system. In the first full fiscal year after the...

Published 27 Oct, 2021 07:40am

Business & Finance

After KTBA, FPCCI also criticises FBR's 'digital payments' measure

Writes letter to FBR chairman, says amendment made without taking business community on board

Updated 26 Oct, 2021 09:11pm

Business & Finance

KTBA calls FBR's digital payments measure 'anti-business, contradictory'

Writes letter to FBR chairman, argues provision of law is anti-business; sans due diligence and is incorporated without taking the stakeholders into confidence

Updated 25 Oct, 2021 08:58pm

Bank account attachment: Senate panel asks FBR to withdraw orders

ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Finance has recommended to the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to...

Updated 22 Oct, 2021 09:57am

Opinion

Benefits of digitizing documents

The puzzle of documentation is not getting solved. The cash (or more broadly the informal) economy is growing ...

Published 07 Feb, 2021 04:07am

Perspectives

What is Raast? An Explainer

Lately there has been a lot of chatter regarding launch of a payment interface by the Central Bank, which has aptly been branded as ‘Raast’, and is being heralded as the ultimate solution to all payment related problems.
If built, and leveraged well, ‘Raast’ can truly catalyse a paradigm shift regarding how transactions are executed in the country, enabling hefty economic dividends in the process.

Updated 13 Jan, 2021 11:40am

BR Research

Raast: Paving the way for economic prosperity

The Prime Minister in a ceremony held at the PM House launched Raast, a payment interface being developed by the ...

Published 12 Jan, 2021 07:30am

Technology

Pakistani Fintech SadaPay earns pilot launch approval from SBP

The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has finally granted approval to SadaPay, a Pakistani fintech startup, to officially begin its pilot operations in 2021.

Updated 16 Dec, 2020 10:31am

Technology

KP to Launch Digital Payment System by June 2021: Zia Ullah Bangash

KP Government plans on launching the Digital Payment System by June 2021, according to Zia Ullah Bangash.

Updated 05 Dec, 2020 02:36pm

Business & Finance

SBP blocks payment for subscribing to India’s Zee5

The SBP says the ban was imposed at the behest of the federal government.

Published 13 Nov, 2020 11:28am

Business & Finance

Ecommerce & Digital Payment industries set for major growth in Pakistan: Survey

The report draws insights from a regional survey, which polled more than 5,000 consumers in September 2020 in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Pakistan.

Published 11 Nov, 2020 11:59am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Jul 26	278.40
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Jul 26	278.20
USD to Japanese Yen / Jul 26	153.77
USD to Swiss Franc / Jul 26	0.88
Pound Sterling to USD / Jul 26	1.29
Euro to USD / Jul 26	1.09

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Jul 25	5,399.22
Nasdaq / Jul 25	17,181.72
Dow Jones / Jul 25	39,935.07
India Sensex / Jul 26	80,709.64
Tokyo Nikkei / Jul 26	37,865.35
Hang Seng / Jul 26	17,058.55
FTSE 100 / Jul 26	8,255.78
Germany DAX 30 / Jul 26	18,346.62

Item	Value
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Jul 26	78.38
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Jul 26	17,035
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Jul 26	215,621
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Jul 26	2,374.19
Cotton US¢/pound / Jul 26	68.62
Petrol/Litre / Jul 27	275.60

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Jul 27 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Jul 27 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Jul 27 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Jul 27 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Jul 27 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Jul 27 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Jul 27 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Jul 27 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Jul 27 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Jul 27 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Jul 27 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Jul 27 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Jul 27 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Jul 27 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Jul 27 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Jul 27 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Jul 27 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Jul 27 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Volume
P.I.A.C.(A) / Jul 27 Pakistan International Airlines Corp(PIAA)	47,200,500 ▲ 0.00
Cnergyico PK / Jul 27 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	29,719,327 ▲ 0.00
Pak Petroleum / Jul 27 Pakistan Petroleum Limited(PPL)	21,170,581 ▲ 0.00
Pak Refinery / Jul 27 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	16,965,134 ▲ 0.00
The Searle Co. / Jul 27 The Searle Company Limited(SEARL)	15,793,227 ▲ 0.00
P.T.C.L. / Jul 27 Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd(PTC)	15,054,641 ▲ 0.00
K-Electric Ltd. / Jul 27 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	14,145,556 ▲ 0.00
WorldCall Telecom / Jul 27 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	13,158,668 ▲ 0.00
Telecard Limited / Jul 27 Telecard Limited(TELE)	12,358,668 ▲ 0.00

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