The Profit Digital Banking Roundtable: “Lessons from the frontline”
We’ve been to all the conferences, heard the keynotes, and have been fed the vision of digital banking for years now. But...
Good news: Bond market is signalling an economic recovery. But here’s why that just might be bad news
Ladies and gentlemen, if we can get your attention for a moment, the bond market of Pakistan would like to make an...
These 4 Pakistani companies have shown higher profits and yet their share prices have plunged. Is the stock market stupid?
It is 2019 and the Pakistani economy is a wreck. The stock market is in free fall with no signs yet of...
Can a MiniSo franchise make you a millionaire overnight?
Ask the scholars that spend decades obsessing over Japanese aesthetics and they will tell you tales of loft ideals and an ideology...
How one Pakistani techie helped build a $20 million US-focused startup
Many startups do not even pass the first or second year of their existence. And if they somehow do pass this phase,...
Shifa International looks to expand its footprint in Punjab
Shifa International Hospital Ltd, the country’s only publicly listed hospital company, is planning on building a brand new hospital in Faisalabad, the...
AkzoNobel in the mood to buy its way to growth in Pakistan
AkzoNobel Pakistan is stuck in a rut and may be looking to a combination of restructuring and acquisitions as a way to...
Pakistan’s auto industry shows little sign of improvement
Pakistan’s automobile sector is showing no signs of halting its continued decline. The auto industry experienced a 39% decline in car sales...
In Careem’s acquisition, will Uber create a monopoly?
In April this year, the ride-hailing firm Uber acquired the rival company Careem for $3.1 billion, with the deal between the two...
Nearly 48% of Pakistan’s electricity came from non-carbon-based sources in August 2019
It appears to be a contradiction, but it is true nonetheless: in August 2019, nearly half of Pakistan’s electricity came from sources...
Pakistan’s banks are better positioned to withstand the recession
It is the worst recession that Pakistan has experienced since the 1971 war, according to some measures, and one would typically expect...
When it comes to inflation, food companies absorb some of the blow
It is a slow time in the packaged food industry as the combined effects of a massive currency devaluation and rising inflation...
Marketing’s ideological war: The rise and demise of Ufone’s ‘funny’ advert
It isn’t easy being funny. For sure, the joke you told yesterday during dinner might have killed, but with enough context and...
ETDB: Where Pakistan sends a bureaucrat to do a banker’s job
Somewhere in Istanbul, Javed Aslam must be reflecting on his four-year stint as President of the ECO Trade and Development Bank (ETDB)....
The future of domestic help is a click away, and there are already two players vying to make it their own
Disaster has struck. Your boss is coming over, or maybe it is your in-laws, or even people from school you have not...