Pulse iD, a leading Asia Pacific fintech, unveiled a strategic partnership agreement with Visa, the world’s leader in digital payments. The partnership will see Pulse iD leveraging its Catalyst platform to power Visa Offers Exchange (VOX), a marketplace of merchant offers that intelligently targets Visa cardholders based on their spend behavior. VOX is the latest offering in Visa’s […]

Building on the surge in digital commerce since the start of the pandemic, Visa, the world leader in digital payments, hosted the third edition of its eCommerce Summit for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Held virtually under the theme, “Thriving In The New Normal”, the event brought together government representatives from Dubai […]

Jazz, Pakistan’s number one 4G operator, and the largest internet and broadband service provider has joined hands with NayaPay, an emerging EMI. With this collaboration, customers can now instantly purchase a host of Jazz services through the NayaPay platform, including topping-up their mobile balance, subscribing to prepaid bundles, and recharging their Jazz broadband devices. As […]

Finja, Pakistan’s leading digital lending platform, announced today that it has closed $9 Million of a $10 Million Series A1 financing round. This latest round brings in new investor ICU Ventures, with all previous institutional investors participating again including BeeNext, Vostok Emerging Finance, Quona Capital, and Gray MacKenzie Engineering Services (a Descon company). Under the […]

The President of Pakistan, Dr. Arif Alvi, has appreciated the Governor State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), Dr.Reza Baqir, for leading the initiatives of SBP in the areas of women empowerment through financial inclusion and expanding the landscape of digital payments in the country. He was addressing an online meeting with Governor State Bank of Pakistan […]

Mashreq Bank and Mastercard have partnered to announce the launch of Tap On Phone, their new offering for Small and Medium Businesses (SMEs). The innovation, rolled out with the support of and enabled via Mastercard’s Payment Gateway Technology, is part of a wider omnichannel SME in a Box service launched earlier this year in the Middle East & […]

In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, where Pakistan experienced accelerated digital adoption, there was also a significant boost in the use of digital payments. In a recent dialogue held by the Institute for Policy Reforms, Irfan Wahab Khan, CEO of Telenor Pakistan, spoke about the significance and scope of digitizing the payment ecosystem through […]

MCB Islamic, in line with its vision to enable and promote cash-less and digital payments, has entered into an agreement with National Institutional Facilitation Technologies (NIFT), one of the largest payment processors in Pakistan for enabling digital commerce payments (Mobile/Electronic Commerce Payments) through NIFT’s DFS platform under the brand name “NIFT ePay”. The partnership would […]

Codebase Technologies has introduced a brand-new digital fintech offering – Digibanc™ Digital Roshan – to empower conventional and Islamic banks in Pakistan to manage seamless, consistent, and engaging customer journeys across multiple customer touch-points and drive their digital transformations. The comprehensive digital solution aims to help banks to support overseas Pakistani customers to open their […]

The e-commerce and digital payment industries in the Middle East & North Africa, Pakistan (MENAP) region are set for major growth in 2021, with nearly half of consumers likely to increase their online shopping over the next year, according to a report released today by Checkout.com, a leading global payment solution provider. The Connected Payments […]