1LINK (Pvt.) Limited and Decagon Pakistan (Pvt.) Limited (Golootlo) have entered a strategic partnership for the PayPak Loyalty Program allowing all new and existing PayPak customers of participating banks/issuers to avail year-round exclusive Golootlo deals and discounts at over 15,500 merchants in 130 cities nationwide. The launch of this program highlights the commitment of Pakistan’s […]

Asim Bashir, Country Head – Digital Banking at Askari Bank Limited shares the journey of adapting the “New Normal” in order to cope with COVID-19 and its impact. Mr. Bashir said, “In the future, I see that a branch will not be considered a primary channel for banking rather it will become right channel for […]

RapidCompute, Pakistan’s largest enterprise-class cloud computing platform, has partnered with CodeGirls, providing their graduates with paid internships leading to a potential full-term employment opportunity to work on the major cloud platform in the country. These talented young women will be part of the software team working to develop the company’s cutting edge local stack and […]

Shabahat Ali Shah, Chief Executive Officer at National Information Technology Board shares the development strategies in public departments and explains the significance of technology in making the system more efficient and the crucial role it played in tackling this recent pandemic of COVID-19. CEO of NITB, Shabahat Ali Shah says, “Our main focus was a […]

Al Salam Bank-Bahrain has marked marked the beginning digitization with the launch of its new mobile banking app. The app offers customers a full suite of digital banking services including digital onboarding. The new app is focused on giving customers a choice of innovative Shari’a-compliant banking solutions. It follows on from the launch of several new […]

Lloyds Banking Group (Lloyds) has announced a strategic partnership with Form3, a cloud-native payments technology fintech, to accelerate its transformation and enhance the digital experience for customers.  The collaboration is expected to enable Lloyds to investigate and develop a cloud-native Payments-as-a-Service platform to significantly payment processes, making them more efficient. The partnership with Form3 will […]

Telecommunications leaders and experts from Pakistan and across the region recently gathered at the SAMENA Telecommunication Council Leaders’ Summit to review plans for unleashing the potential of 5G networks to boost economies and societies in a post-COVID-19 environment. Held virtually for the first time due to social-distancing requirements, the Summit was hosted by Huawei for […]

QNB Group, the largest financial institution in the Middle East and Africa, becomes the first bank in Sudan to have successfully performed an international payment card transaction in partnership with Mastercard, a global technology company in the payments industry. The transaction was performed using a Mastercard virtual prepaid card product. QNB is also the first […]

Sberbank, one of Russia’s largest state-owned banks, has partnered with Visa and Russian supermarket, Azbuka Vkusa to open a cashier-less store where customers simply take items from shelves and are automatically charged. To use the all-new service, customers need to download the Take&Go mobile app by Sberbank, sign up, and associate a bank card with […]

“It is evident that customer behavior is going to change forever, customers would prefer having minimal interactions with the branch and would much rather be serviced in the convenience of their home through their mobiles or devices of their choice”, said Kashif Amin Thakkur, Head of Consumer Banking at Ajman Bank – UAE, during an […]