Arazi Ventures has been nominated for the prestigious National Innovation Award 2017. NEST by Arazi Ventures is one of the five products nominated for the ‘Fintech Innovation’ category. Other nominees include HBL, Finja, Inov8 and CreditFix. The winner will be announced on 7 December 2017. NEST aims to bring down the minimum ticket size required […]

NSPIRE, a business incubator launched under NETSOL Technologies Pvt Limited welcomed its participants in the second round earlier in December. After well thought out considerations, evaluations, and profiling the following four teams made it to the second cohort: 1)Shopdesk – A cloud-based ERP solution, designed for tier 2 and 3 retail outlets 2)Qanoon.com.pk – An […]

Fintech covers digital innovations and technology-enabled business model innovations in the financial sector. Such innovations can disrupt existing industry structures and blur industry boundaries, facilitate strategic design- termediation, revolutionize how existing firms create and deliver products and services, provide new gateways for entrepreneurship, democratize access to financial services, but also create significant privacy, regulatory and […]

Pakistan’s startup industry has come a long way from a series of ranges and came to a point where it l anded itself at FinTech’s first Disrupt Challenge in Pakistan hosted collectively by Kar andaaz and LUMS Center for Entrepreneurship. The Fintech Space in Pakistan FinTech has had incredible success globally reaching to $5.2 billion […]

KARANDAAZ PAKISTAN promotes access to finance for small businesses through a commercially directed investment platform, and financial inclusion for individuals by employing technology enabled digital solutions. The Company has financial and institutional support from leading international development finance institutions; principally the United Kingdom Department for International Development (UKAid) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. […]

FinTech is creating a lot of buzz all over the world. Pakistan is not alien to this concept as we too have budding businesses that are revolutionizing the conventional banking and payments system in Pakistan. FinTech is an amalgamation of two words, Finance and Technology. This concept is not new as banking institutions and some […]