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Visa, the world’s leader in digital payments, has launched its ‘Where You Shop Matters’ (WYSM) initiative in Pakistan with Daraz, the country’s leading online marketplace. The campaign aims to empower and support small businesses adversely affected by COVID-19 pandemic and is part of a larger Visa effort spanning the Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East […]
Life has slowed down, but people still need to sell their cars or buy used ones. Recognizing this necessity and supporting customers’ efforts to maintain social distancing, VavaCars has once again set out to completely revolutionize the car selling process by offering their services at people’s doorsteps via their new, ground-breaking mobile purchasing units. Reopening […]
OPPO is days away from launching Find X2 Pro – the latest 4G all-around smartphone with one of the best high-quality screens in the industry. Previously launched in March in Malaysia and soon to be launched in India, the most anticipated smartphone OPPO Find X2 Pro is set to hit the Pakistani smartphone market on […]
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 […]
Launched to facilitate secure, cheap, and rapid remittances by overseas Pakistani’s, the Pakistan Remittance Initiative (PRI) is a joint initiative of the State Bank of Pakistan, Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis, and Ministry of Finance. Remittances play a crucial role in Pakistan’s economy, providing a much-needed inflow of dollars to boost foreign exchange reserves. Ranking amongst […]
Master Group of Industries (1963), one of Pakistan’s leading corporate and consumer-focused industrial groups, is proud to announce the launch of its #DontLetThemSleepHungry initiative. The campaign will aim to raise funds to provide rations for 30,000 people severely affected by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The Group has partnered with Saylani Welfare Trust, which will perform […]
Since its launch of Refinance Scheme to Support Employment and Prevent Layoff of Workers, called Rozgar Scheme in common parlance, State Bank has been constantly receiving feedback from various stakeholders, making the scheme more facilitative for businesses and creating incentives to prevent the layoff of employees under current COVID Pandemic scenario. Many of the changes […]
Karandaaz Pakistan, with financial support from the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), is helping the Securities Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) digitalize its key operations. In the first phase of this process, a digital Secured Transactions Registry (STR), governed by The Financial Institutions (Secured Transactions) Act, 2016 has been launched. The STR is an […]
Adviser to Prime Minister on Finance and Revenue Dr. Abdul Hafeez Shaikh launched the Secured Transactions Registry (STR) or registration of security interests/charges created by entities other than companies on their movable assets. The launching ceremony was chaired by Dr. Abdul Hafeez Shaikh and was attended by Governor of State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), Reza […]
Starting today, Google’s own video conferencing app is now going free for all users globally, the search engine giant announced. The meet was initially launched as a premium app for paid users, but looking at the surging demand for video call services across the globe owing to the lockdowns imposed by several governments in order […]