BankIslami Launches Pakistan’s First Shariah-Compliant Raast QR Payment Gateway
Pakistan’s first digital Islamic banking platform, ‘aik’ by BankIslami, has launched aikPay— Pakistan’s first Shariah-compliant Raast-enabled QR Payment Gateway. Built on the State Bank of Pakistan’s Raast infrastructure, aikPay enables real-time online payments through dynamic QR codes, allowing customers to pay instantly from their bank accounts and enabling merchants to receive payments securely through a smooth checkout experience.
Mehfooz
Aik by Bank Islami and PTCL Strengthen Pakistan’s Digital Banking Ecosystem with Cloud-Based Solutions
Aik, Pakistan’s first Islamic digital banking platform, has entered into a strategic partnership with Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) to bolster its infrastructure with secure and reliable services using PTCL Smart Cloud.
Editor
PSX marks listing of Bank Islami Pakistan’s Ehad Sukuk II with a Gong ceremony
Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) held a gong ceremony at the Exchange to mark the listing of BankIslami Pakistan Limited’s Islamic financial instrument of Ehad Sukuk II, a fully paid up, rated, perpetual, unsecured, subordinated, non-cumulative and contingent convertible Mudaraba Sukuk. The issue size was of PKR 1,000 million, out of which Sukuks of PKR 850 million (85% of issue size) were issued to the pre-IPO investors and Sukuks of PKR 150 million (15% of issue size) were offered to the general public by way of Initial Public Offering. The issue price or par value of each Sukuk is PKR 5,000, with an expected profit rate of 1 month KIBOR + 2.5% per annum to be paid out monthly. The instrument has a perpetual tenor. The purpose of the Issue was to raise capital towards the issuer’s Additional Tier I for Capital Adequacy Ratio as per guidelines set by the State Bank of Pakistan.
SBP sets agriculture credit disbursement target of Rs1.8 trillion for FY23
State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has assigned annual agriculture credit disbursement target of Rs1,800 billion to the financial institutions for FY23 to cater to the agriculture credit demand in the country. Moreover, in line with the national food security requirements and need for mechanization of farms to enhance agriculture productivity, specific targets of Rs140 billion…
Adil Aziz