Women-led businesses in Pakistan primarily face funding, digitization, and advisory challenges according to Visa’s Women SMB Digitization Index survey. In order to address these challenges, Visa, a world leader in digital payments is launching its global She’s Next grant program in Pakistan for the first time in partnership with HBL, Pakistan’s largest private bank, which […]

Daraz, Pakistan’s leading e-commerce platform, has entered into a strategic long-term partnership with Meezan Bank, a pioneer in Islamic banking and a powerhouse in the banking industry. This collaboration is designed to promote e–commerce and digital payments among Meezan Bank and Daraz customers. As part of this collaboration, Daraz will integrate Meezan Bank’s payment gateway […]

Westpac launched its first third-party Android terminal app, Presto, as part of new cloud-based integrated payments solutions for merchant customers to help make it faster and easier to run their business. Developed in collaboration with payments fintech mx51, the Presto app is available on Westpac’s fleet of Android-based EFTPOS Now terminals and allows for key […]

easypaisa, Pakistan’s leading digital financial services platform has launched easypaisa Karobar powered by Dukan, a platform designed specifically to address unmet banking needs of two million retail merchants across the country. Being Pakistan’s first digital banking app for retailers, easypaisa Karobar enables merchants to manage their financing needs digitally, reduce operational complexities, and become part […]

Deluxe, a Trusted Payments and Data company, and fintech Aliaswire, Inc. have announced a new partnership that will introduce Aliaswire’s DirectBiller bill payment technology across the extensive Deluxe network of banks, partners, and direct clients. This collaboration highlights the significant opportunity to digitize more business payments. “Our goal is to facilitate our clients’ transition to […]

ANZ Worldline Payment Solutions – a joint venture between ANZ and global payments leader Worldline – has announced that from today, it enables businesses to accept payments through Alipay+ from at least six digital wallets including Alipay, AlipayHK (Hong Kong SAR China), Kakao Pay (South Korea), Touch ‘n Go eWallet (Malaysia), TrueMoney (Thailand) and GCash […]

Visa Inc. announced a partnership agreement with ABHI, a leading fintech company, and YellowPepper to introduce Account-to-Account (A2A) payments in the UAE. This collaboration aims to revolutionize the financial landscape by driving innovation, promoting financial inclusion, and accelerating the adoption of new payment solutions in the CEMEA region. Shahebaz Khan, SVP and Head of Commercial […]

As part of its ongoing initiatives aimed to positively impact the environment at a global level, branded payments provider Blackhawk Network (BHN) is working alongside Visa to transition its network of branded prepaid products distributed by third-party retail networks from plastic to paper-based materials. The initiative will roll out in the US, Canada, and Australia later this year. […]

foodpanda and easypaisa have joined hands to introduce seamless payment options for customers. Users will now be able to pay for their orders directly through their easypaisa wallet. This partnership empowers millions of easypaisa customers to conveniently order meals from the foodpanda app and make payments directly from their mobile wallets. The integration of this […]

Visa, the world’s leader in digital payments has launched the Visa Ready To Launch (VRTL) program, giving fintech and non-banking entities a seamless experience in issuing payment products. NymCard is the first BaaS player in the Middle East and Pakistan region to join the Visa Ready to Launch program and transform payment credentials issuance capabilities […]