Panda Retail Company held its first annual event for suppliers: “PACE” (Panda Annual Collaborative Event), at The Venue Jeddah Corniche Hotel. PACE focused on empowering people to live a better life, discussing the local and international impacts of inflation, and finding solutions to ensure consumers are protected from the worst inflationary effects. PACE was attended […]

Anthony McKew was announced as the new Chief Technology Officer for Sandstone Technology. Prior to joining Sandstone Technology, Mr McKew has amassed over 35 years of both local and global experience within banking and retail technology having worked for the likes of Linkly, Premier Technologies and SecurePay. Having led teams on countless projects, developing solutions […]

Future Tech Event is Sultanate of Oman’s foremost B2B and B2G bespoke Technology Event, taking place in November 2023, at the Oman Convention and Exhibition Centre. It is a definitive meeting place facilitating multi-stakeholder dialogue with power packed networking opportunities among C-Level executives, leading industry experts, decision makers, policy makers and government officials from across the value chain […]

Continuing to upgrade its customers’ world, Ooredoo has added Oman Air’s frequent flyer programme, Sindbad, to its list of Nojoom partners. Nojoom members with Shahry postpaid or Home Internet plans can now convert their loyalty points to Sindbad Miles, which can be spent on a host of Oman Air’s products and services including flight tickets, […]

Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), held a two-day technology event in collaboration with Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers bracket (IEEE) Society, titled CodinGuru 5.0. in partnership with S&P Global Pakistan. This competition aimed to improve the tech quotient of the students and encourage ambitious and skilled coders to enhance their abilities. Senior Director […]

The 4th Financial Crime Summit will be held this week on January 14, 2023 in Karachi, with the theme ‘Post-FATF Financial Crime Action Plan – Continuing the National Anti-Financial Crime Agenda’. The Summit is being organized by Dellsons Conferences under the banner of Dellsons Associates, together with its Knowledge Partner, A. F. Ferguson & Co., […]

Building on the success of their #ExamReady campaign launched last year, TikTok and edtech startup Edkasa have announced a scholarship programme that will reward online study grants to 18,000 deserving students from across Pakistan, as they look to expand access to quality education. In September, TikTok partnered with Edkasa and LUMS for a first-of-its-kind year-long […]

Dawlance is Pakistan’s leading manufacturer of home appliances, which has now signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Habib-Metro Bank Limited (HMBL) to enable the suppliers and contractors of Dawlance, to undertake Supply Chain Finance (SCF) transactions with ease. The objective of this collaboration is to provide the Dawlance vendors with the option to avail invoice […]

Kuwait Telecommunications Company – stc, a world-class digital leader providing innovative services and platforms to customers, enabling the digital transformation in Kuwait, inked an agreement through the ‘Weyak’ initiative – season 2 with COFE App, the region’s premiere online coffee marketplace. The official signing ceremony of the partnership was attended by executives from stc and […]

Finalis, a rapidly growing investment-banking-as-a-service platform for dealmakers, recently launched its state-of-the-art platform, Finalis Marketplace. The platform allows investment bankers, placement agents and M&A advisors to offer, find and promote deal collaboration with other dealmakers in real-time without the risk of revealing their clients’ identity. Finalis provides a unified white-labeled broker dealer platform that ensures […]