Mutaher Khan
It was with much fanfare that PM Imran unveiled the State Bank of Pakistan’s micro-payments gateway named Raast.
Updated 18 Jan, 2021 09:19am
Startups raised $66.24m of capital in 50 deals in 2020, up 57.3pc from a year ago.
Updated 14 Apr, 2022 01:02pm
Big rounds of financing are expected in 2021 as fintechs look to blitzscale by buying growth.
Updated 04 Jan, 2021 09:59am
‘We are not backing off in the bike taxi category. We can even outspend (Uber and Careem) on this,’ says Bykea CEO.
Updated 28 Dec, 2020 08:49am
The debate on technology in Pakistan has never been nuanced.
Updated 21 Dec, 2020 09:36am
Figures for mobile wallet transactions also include those done via the agent even if the customer actually did everything in cash.
Updated 14 Dec, 2020 10:18am
Each of the four components of mobile banking more than doubled in July-September.
Updated 07 Dec, 2020 10:07am
The volume of interbank fund transfers reached 70.77m in July-October, soaring by a staggering 309.6pc from just 17m a year ago
Published 23 Nov, 2020 07:19am
The central bank is now issuing instructions as to what online content platforms are kosher for Pakistanis
Published 16 Nov, 2020 07:08am
At the heart of it all is the Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB).
Updated 09 Nov, 2020 09:22am
TAG will be commencing pilot operations under the regulation of SBP over the next few months before its commercial launch.
Updated 03 Nov, 2020 02:24am
Occupancy rates have now returned to the pre-pandemic levels in co-working facilities
in the three major cities
Updated 26 Oct, 2020 12:45pm
Is the growth of PoS cannibalised by banks’ own competing product lines like mobile wallets, internet banking or QR?
Published 19 Oct, 2020 07:12am
The cloud industry is not too excited about the SBP’s latest announcement.
Updated 12 Oct, 2020 08:55am
The Brand Equity portal offers a bunch of social listening tools.
Updated 11 Oct, 2020 05:16pm
With the blurring of the line between home and office, many employees have complained about increased workload.
Updated 05 Oct, 2020 10:09am
It is obvious by now that investments in technology infrastructure and teams aren’t being complemented by security concerns.
Updated 04 Oct, 2020 10:15am
As the pandemic pushed remote work from the niches of a handful of hipster...
Updated 27 Sep, 2020 11:50am
The issue of vendor delivery services is at the centre of the restaurants’ fight with Foodpanda.
Updated 21 Sep, 2020 09:55am
Anthive.co has so far digitised 16 subjects — popular locally and spanning over 12 years.
Updated 20 Sep, 2020 10:02am
