Global financial markets are fixated on a single question this week: will the US-Iran ceasefire hold? The answer carries outsized consequences for oil prices, inflation expectations,...
Fintech giant Fiserv has moved quickly to install new leadership, naming Takis Georgakopoulos as its chief executive officer with immediate effect. Georgakopoulos, who spent more than...
Islamabad’s revenue machine is grinding, and the gears are stripping. The Finance Bill 2026 arrived with a headline FBR target near Rs15.3 trillion for the new...
When riot police lined up outside a Southport mosque in August 2024, the violence on the street had already been rehearsed online for hours. Britain’s Big...
A ribbon-cutting in Karachi this week did more than open a branch. It marked the moment BankIslami Pakistan Limited, the country’s second-oldest full-fledged Islamic bank, formally...
Karachi’s fintech corridor produced another paper trail this week. ABHI Microfinance Bank has signed a memorandum of understanding with NADRA Technologies Limited (NTL), the commercial arm...
Karachi’s trading floor went quiet for a half-second on June 15, 2026, then erupted. The State Bank of Pakistan had just held its policy rate at...
By March 2026, the architecture of domestic capital in South Asia has fundamentally shifted. Shariah-compliant deposits now capture over 26.5% of the total banking industry, an...
In early 2026, Arthur & Hayes, a mid-sized London accounting firm, quietly fired its bottom quintile of junior analysts. They replaced them not with offshore labour...
Washington no longer treats artificial intelligence as a Silicon Valley curiosity. By mid-2026, AI infrastructure has become the organizing principle of US economic and foreign policy,...