HBL and the Pakistan Post Office Department (PPOD) have entered into a 20-year strategic alliance to further financial inclusion by leveraging digital technology. Under this agreement, HBL will provide investments in the form of technology, infrastructure, and capacity enhancement to the PPOD with the objective of enabling, technology-based and regulatory compliant digital, financial services in […]

Finastra has appointed Margaret Franco as Chief Marketing Officer. Joining from Dell Technologies, she is based at Finastra’s London headquarters and takes responsibility for leadership of the global marketing organization, including corporate communications, brand, digital, solutions and field and partner marketing. Margaret brings a wealth of marketing and product management expertise from her career in the technology industry. […]

While people around the planet continue to grapple with the pandemic, there’s also a call to pause and reflect on another cause – Time for Nature, the theme of the UN’s World Environment Day on 5 June. Emirates, acutely aware of its role in the planet’s natural ecosystem, has continued to make progress in the […]

In a bid to disrupt the digital financial services ecosystem, Dubai Islamic Bank Pakistan Limited (DIBP) has signed a partnership agreement to onboard Bookme.pk as its newest digital alliance partner on the bank’s digital platform. This arrangement will allow Digital Ticketing to offer ‘Digital Ticketing’ services to all DIBP Mobile App, Internet Banking, and Digital […]

After becoming Pakistan’s first fintech to win an E-Money Institution (EMI) license pilot green light from State Bank of Pakistan, Finja has now also been added to the bank’s list for Interbank Fund Transfers from any bank or ATM in Pakistan. This marks the first time a non-bank has been allowed this access and will […]

Nordic challenger bank Lunar has launched accounts and cards designed to help teenagers between 15 to 17 years old to offer to help them teach about money management. So they can manage their allowances, salary, and money on their own account. Teenagers will be able to sign up for an account themselves. The new service […]

Emirates will resume 14 weekly scheduled flights to Dubai, including a daily from Karachi, five from Lahore, and two from Islamabad. From Pakistan, the airline will fly UAE residents as well as cargo to Dubai. On the flights from Dubai to Pakistan, the airline will only carry cargo. Emirates will serve Pakistan with its modern […]

  HomesShopping.pk, one of the leading e-commerce players in Pakistan, has entered into a strategic partnership to enable overseas Pakistanis to buy goods in Pakistan by making payments in installments in their country of residence. This is a first of its kind globally – Buy Now, Pay Later propositions have to date only been available […]

AGBL Group, the region’s largest biomedical distribution group in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, has appointed Mr. Yasir Saleem as Country Manager for its Pakistan operation, Mr. Saleem; a native of Pakistan has been with the group for many years and has been chosen to lead the group’s operation in Pakistan, he is expected […]

      NetGuardians, renowned for its AI risk platform that combats banking fraud, announced a new partnership with leading cloud banking platform Mambu. The new partnership focuses on digital payment fraud, meaning that NetGuardians’ state-of-the-art fraud-mitigation software will be available to Mambu’s customers for seamless integration into the core banking platform. Mambu currently has more […]