Jazz, Pakistan’s leading digital service provider, has partnered with Omnicomm, a global telemetry and fleet management solutions provider, to introduce ‘Jazz Biz Fuelmatic’, an Internet of Things (IoT) based fuel management solution allowing businesses to minimize their environmental impact by achieving energy efficiency.

Chairman Businessmen Group (BMG) & Former President Karachi Chamber of Commerce & Industry (KCCI) Siraj Kassam Teli has announced names of incoming Office Bearers of Karachi Chamber for the year 2020-21.

According to the announcement, BMG leadership has agreed to elect Shariq Vohra as President, Saqib Goodluck as Senior Vice President KCCI and Shamsul Islam as Vice President KCCI.

Bank Alfalah and TerraPay, a global payments infrastructure company, have announced a partnership for offering remittance payment services in Pakistan. Through this partnership, overseas Pakistanis will be able to use TerraPay’s partners’ network to instantly deposit money to any bank account in Pakistan.

The National Financial Literacy Program (NFLP) of the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) completed its third year at the end of FY20 with all the targets surpassing for the fiscal year, despite the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic since March 2020.

In order to address the challenge of financial exclusion, the Government of Pakistan adopted a National Financial Inclusion Strategy (NFIS) in 2015.

Standard Chartered Bank (Pakistan) Limited today confirmed that Rehan Shaikh has joined the bank in Pakistan as the new Chief Executive Officer. His appointment is being announced post receiving all regulatory approvals. Rehan has over 35 years of banking experience, whereby most recently he was the CEO Islamic Banking, based in Dubai, UAE.

Chairman Businessmen Group (BMG) & Former President Karachi Chamber of Commerce & Industry (KCCI) Siraj Kassam Teli, while warmly welcoming federal government’s resolve to cleanup Karachi, stated that the business & industrial community highly appreciates Prime Minister Imran Khan’s move to engage National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and Frontier Work Organization (FWO) in the cleanup operation in Karachi which would certainly yield positive results and provide some relief to the perturbed citizens of this city who face immense hardships whenever the city undergoes torrential rainfalls.

Sheikh Muhammad Tariq, Chairman Pakistan UK Business Council of the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) organized first meeting of its Business Council at Federation House Karachi via Zoom link. The meeting was attended by Sheikh Sultan Rehman, Vice President FPCCI, Amir Khawaja, Vice President UK Pakistan Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Directors & Members of the Business Council.

The new fiscal has started well for the cement sector as the cement despatches increased by a healthy 37.75 percent from 3.512 million tons in July 2019 to 4.838 million tons in July 2020 due to buoyancy in both exports and domestic market.

President of Korangi Association of Trade & Industry (KATI) Sheikh Umer Rehan has expressed solidarity with people of Indian Occupied Jammu& Kashmir.

In a statement release to mark a year of regressive and illegal lockdown imposed on the valley by the Indian government, he said that the struggle of Kashmiri people would meet to success soon, the Pakistani nation stands by their right of freedom.

Dawlance has donated another consignment of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for the safety of Doctors and paramedical staff, who are treating COVID-19 patients at major hospitals in Karachi. This initiative is a part of Dawlance’s broader commitment to provide free-of-cost equipment and appliances to build capacity for the nation’s battle against this pandemic.