This Week

Telecommunication companies and commercial banks have been converging for years. According to some sector experts, banks are witnessing greater competition from telecom operators, which are aggressively entering into financial services, especially in transactional lines of business. Therefore, there is a …

The world is confronting the challenges of sustainable economic development these days along with the challenges of sovereignty and security, sustaining national development, access to food and energy, management of natural resources, effects of climate change, and resilience in the …

Let’s talk about misuse of email as a means of communication in the workplace. Email is a one-way means of written messaging that has become a preferred “means of communication” by many in the corporate world. But here are the …

Silkbank Credit Cards are the most innovative next-generation Cards in the market. In a very short span of time, Silkbank has attained leadership position in the Credit Cards market, and is one of the fastest credit cards issuer in the …

The Pakistani banking industry is underway of digital transformation serving the financial inclusion, changing the customer’s expectations and their interactions to make the fulfilment easier, faster, transparent and secured. Though, Pakistani banks have been bit stalled in prescriptive regulatory compliance …

The WE Empower UN SDG Challenge – a global business challenge led in partnership by Vital Voices Global Partnership and Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory at ASU – announced the five social entrepreneurs selected, amongst them was Sehat Kahani’s …

The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has issued its flagship annual publication, the Financial Stability Review (FSR) for CY20. The Review presents performance and risk assessment of various stakeholders in the financial sector including banks, non-banking financial institutions, financial markets, …

Globally, fast rising trend of both external and domestic debt, emerging in 2008 and onwards due to economic recession has engulfed the entire financial world in a whirlpool of fiscal deficit both in developed and developing economies. Some of the …

To maintain a precise balance between demand and supply, electric utilities are obliged to keep sufficient generation capacity in their systems, called “resource adequacy”. It’s necessary to deal with three types of uncertainties: uncertainty in forecast demand, unexpected outages of …

As the data centre landscape continues to, the industry is expected to grow exponentially. With growing reliance on digital connectivity, evolve demand is likely to ramp up further due to the imminent rollout of 5G, IoT-linked devices, data localization and …

Cryptocurrencies are attaining mainstream acceptance, with Bitcoin’s price reaching record levels as investors, such as Elon Musk, are pouring funds into it. The Morgan Stanley, one of the biggest US bank, is offering its wealth management clients access to bitcoin …

Education has always been an influential activity in any society and it is considered as an indispensable instrument for bringing positive change in the social, political, economic and cultural life of people. The whole process is shaped by many important …