Editor’s Note: The relevance of financial journalism
At Profit, we see it as our role to ensure that those rays of optimism that one may feel from the generally...
Editor’s Note: Immovable, like set cement
A cat might have nine lives but Dewan Group’s Dewan Yousuf seems to have thirteen. And counting.
The banks, to whom he owes...
Editor’s Note: The state of the State Bank
If the KASB Bank’s own valuation was correct, then it actually was sold for a song by SBP. If the auditors’ valuation was correct, then was SBP sleeping on the job when it let things get so bad at KASB?
Editor’s Note: SBP’s Hotel California
It doesn’t make sense. Just doesn’t.
Here are three banks that are clearly up for sale. Three solid banks, with great fundamentals, not...
Editors Note: Rich, yes, but how rich?
“If you can count your money, you don’t have a billion dollars.” J.Paul Getty
Forbes Magazine has an obsession with the world’s billionaires....
Editors Note: Passing the baton
She’s going to be the fourth Tapal to run the tea empire. The odds are against Mehvish Tapal. At least statistically speaking....
Editors Note: Dalda goes public
With our financial capital markets as nascent as they are, any discussion of a major company going public is going to be...
Editor’s Note: Of a lack of imagination and unsold shirts
Pakistan’s retail market. Sound out anyone, not just within the country, but also abroad, you’ll hear the same optimism about it. “135...
Editor’s Note: Freedom of the business press
It has been one full year of ‘Profit’. At the risk of sounding too full of ourselves, I think we can go...
Editor’s Note: The silver bullet
‘The government should drop the ancient practice of doling out plots as end-of-career economic security to its elite cadre of civil and...
Editor’s note: Clicks but not without bricks
Yes, digital is the future in all sectors, including banking. Yes, Standard Chartered has a bit of a first movers advantage within...
Editor’s Note: An all-or-nothing bet
Those that the gods want to destroy, they first make promising. And promising is what Warid was when it entered the Pakistani...
Editorial–Incentivising consumers for desired behaviour
The promise of digital banking is alluring. The realization so far has been elusive. Though the field might not exactly be dormant,...
The 13th idea
In the run up to the federal budget, there are many points of view in the market of ideas for the government...
Seth-ification ahoy!
Received wisdom told us that, given enough time, sophistication and exposure to best modern practices, family-run firms would transform into professionally run...