Pakistan’s first fashion billionaire?
The year 2017 is the first time the Pakistani clothing market hit Rs1 trillion in consumer spending (according to an analysis conducted...
Robin Hood of the Fintech world
In 2001, in Karachi, he forecast on the cell phone penetration in the country: by 2010 a hundred million people in Pakistan...
What happened at Habib Bank in New York?
The Grand Central Terminal in New York is, by some measures, the largest train station in the world, covering 48 acres in...
Inov8, Flying below the radar
PAKISTAN'S LARGEST FINTECH IS POISED TO CHANGE THE PAYMENT LANDSCAPE OF PAKISTAN
Founder and Co-CEO of Inov8 Limited, Hasnain Sheikh, is a man of...
Jazz going in for the kill
It is 6:30 on a Sunday (August 20) evening, a roadside vendor, using open cry method, lures half a dozen men to...
A touch of modernity reaps much higher returns
Nestle, MRI collaboration on Chaunsa Project already a huge success
Frustrated with persistent decrease in the yield and productivity of his mango orchards,...
Pakistan, a strategic hub for Nokia
Twitteratti went haywire on June 20, 2017. It wasn’t about JIT probing the premier and his family for tax evasion nor was...
No quick fixes
The rupee declined sharply against the US dollar during intraday trading on July 5 and neither the central bank nor the federal...
Is Qmobile’s iron grip beginning to slip away?
When it comes to hardware technology, one hardly finds a local brand as big as Qmobile. Regardless of which side of the...
Cut out the middlemen, increase profits
Pakistan’s textile exports have been falling at 3.5 per cent per year since fiscal 2013. Yet Feroze1888 Mills Limited has increased its...
A major cyber attack soon to hit Pakistani banks + 4 other unsettling predictions about digital banking
“Pakistan’s first Unicorn will be a fintech, which will provide a platform play as opposed to a single app,” Planet...
The Turnaround King
The career of a banker typically starts from an entry level position and consists of many shifts that include working at a...
Business vs Ethics: The colour of corruption
This is the story of dodgy payments and shady business practices involving some of the largest, most powerful companies in Pakistan. At...
FINCA: Leading the way towards increased financial inclusion
Microfinance model was introduced four decades ago with the hopes of revolutionizing lending. There were high hopes of uplifting the not-haves of...
“Newspapers are in trouble, Journalism is not”
Chapel Hill/Austin/Karachi
When digital disruption hit newspaper businesses in the United States, most publications rushed to launch their Internet versions, some even tried...