Corporate announcements on Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX)
The sales of petroleum products in Pakistan witnessed a sharp decline of 40% year-on-year (YoY) in May 2023, reaching 1.30 million tons, according to the latest data released by the Oil Companies Advisory Council (OCAC). The drop in petroleum sales…
Karachi, Pakistan: Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) has officially launched a new trading & surveillance system (NTS) that aims to upgrade and enhance its technological capacity and functionality. The NTS is a state-of-the-art, safe and highly advanced securities trading and surveillance…
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN: HBL Microfinance Bank (HBL MfB) has announced its partnership with Special Communications Organisation (SCO) to establish and operate the first-ever Software Technology Park (STP) in Skardu, Gilgit-Baltistan. HBL Microfinance Bank has extended its support of Rs. 15 million…
KARACHI, PAKISTAN: ABHI, a leading embedded finance platform in the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan (MENAP) region, has announced that it has issued Islamic bonds worth PKR 2 billion (US$7.1 million), making it the first Fintech in the region…
United Bank Limited (UBL), one of the largest banks in Pakistan with 11 million customers, has gone live with Corporate Lending on Temenos digital banking platform as part of a comprehensive digital transformation of the bank’s retail, SME, and corporate…
Karachi: Qistbazaar, a leading e-commerce start-up, has achieved the milestone of Rs. 1.0 billion in sales, in just 17 months since its establishment in November 2021. As a rapidly growing BNPL (Buy Now Pay Later) platform, and working as a…
According to a Gallup Pakistan Survey with business owners in the first quarter of 2023 for the Gallup Business Confidence Index report, pessimism about the conditions and prospects of their businesses had risen among owners. Political instability has carried over…
KARACHI: Economic and political issues affected Pakistan bourse in 1Q2023. As a result Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) benchmark KSE Index fell 1% in 1Q2023. With PKR falling 20% against USD, the Index was down 21% in USD terms which is…
KARACHI, PAKISTAN: Meezan Bank and PaySa, a fintech startup specializing in digital payments, have partnered to enable Point of Sale (POS) payment services to tap into the country’s booming digital payment ecosystem. According to this agreement, PaySa will deploy POS…
KARACHI: Meezan Bank, Pakistan’s leading Islamic Bank, has recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Fieldfisher Capital LLP (FFC) – a multi-disciplinary advisory service, under which both parties will collaborate to provide Shariah advisory services to international clients including,…
KARACHI: Board of Directors of Shell Pakistan Limited (SPL) announced the company’s financial results for the year ended December 31st, 2022. The company posted a loss after tax of PKR 72 million for 2022 compared to the profit of PKR…
KARACHI: Profit repatriation out of Pakistan has declined from average $135 million/month during FY22 to $30 million/month during 7MFY23 (July-January 2022-23) over efforts to contain SBP foreign exchange reserves. In January 2023 alone, repatriation declined to all-time low at $2.9…