Computer services have fueled ICT exports in recent years: SBP

The central bank said the country’s informal exports were higher than its formal exports and projections by industry experts put the total size of its ICT exports at $2.5 billion

Tania Aidrus’s big bet on creating a Digital Pakistan

It started, as things often do in Pakistan, with a WhatsApp forward. On Thursday, December 5, a group of Pakistanis living in...

Visa aims for 10-fold rise in Pakistani use of digital payments

Strategy involves transforming phones into payment instruments and accepting various forms of payment, including QR and card tap

Covid-19: 1LINK collaborates with Bookme to facilitate online ticketing

LAHORE: E-payment network 1LINK has partnered with online ticketing startup Bookme.pk for 1LINK – 1BILL aggregation services to simplify digital payments for...

Transactions through e-banking channels touched Rs47.4 trillion in FY18: SBP

The number of local e-commerce merchants registered with banks reached 1,094 and consumers carried out 3.4 million online e-commerce transactions valuing Rs 18.7 billion

Pakistan’s digital payments surge 35% in FY24, reports SBP

Total volume of digital transactions rise from Rs4.7 billion to Rs 6.4 billion while their value grows to Rs 547 trillion from Rs 403 trillion

Cashless Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Initiative launched to promote digital payments

Aims to implement mandatory digital payment system for businesses, strengthening economic growth, enhancing transparency, and reducing reliance on cash

SBP boosts transaction limits to promote digital payments in cattle markets before Eidul Adha

Collaboration with 22 banks aims to increase cashless transactions and reduce reliance on cash during the peak livestock trading season at 54 key cattle markets in 21 districts 

NayaPay, Alipay+ partner to boost global payments into Pakistan

The fintech platforms will use QR codes compatible with Raast and Alipay+ payment partners to enable cashless transactions and support SMEs

Govt shifts to Raast for employees’ salaries, vendor bills payments 

Over 90% of federal employees now paid through the State Bank's instant payment system as digital transactions surge

Banks asked to improve digital payment system

KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan on Monday directed the banking industry to improve acceptance of payment cards across the country. The directive...

SBP unveils PRISM+ system to upgrade National Digital Payments Infrastructure

PRISM+ aims to improve transparency, interoperability, and liquidity management in the payments ecosystem, launching on June 16

Pakistani freelancers to regain access to blocked funds on Payoneer cards today  

Preempting the positive decision, CEO Payoneer says company to ensure access to blocked funds regardless of outcome of scandal probe.

The promising life and tragic death of Inov8

Founders of Pakistan’s most valuable fintech, Bashir and Hasnain Sheikh squandered potential that they had for years, all the while trying to ‘fake it till you make it’. This is their story: a business tragedy in five parts, and the hamartia is hubris

Govt to introduce dual pricing for cash and digital transactions on fuel: report

Consumers making cash transactions at petrol stations will incur an additional cost of Rs2-3 per liter