The Pak Banker - 2024-03-28

• The perennial economic woes
• PIA Board approves privatisat­ion plan amid IMF talks
• Rupee keeps going up amid IMF inflow hopes
• FBR to launch Tajir Dost Scheme for small traders, shopkeeper­s
• National saving schemes: profit rates raised
• Risk mitigation policies of banks ‘lack transparen­cy’
• Record high: KSE-100 settles above 66,500 with 642-point gain
• Pakistan ‘well positioned’ to leverage $949b global carbon market but challenges aplenty
• Army chief vows to eliminate every terrorist
• Engro Fertilizer­s to extend Rs5b intercompa­ny loan to EPCL
• Pakistan, Afghanista­n vow to resolve trade, transit issues
• Pak-China Business Council delegation visits CBD Punjab
• CJP calls full court meeting over alleged interferen­ce of spy agencies in judiciary
• EU shares muted ahead of economic data; H&M shines
• Zinc falls on weak steel demand, strong dollar
• UK’s FTSE 100 lacklustre at open as energy stocks fall
• England’s Southgate ponders tough choices as Euro 2024 looms
• Djokovic splits from Ivanisevic with bitter sweet message
• Oil falls 1pc as US crude inventorie­s surge
• Targeting militant sanctuarie­s
• The Bhutto wound
• Russian roulette
• Ceasefire, finally
• Rift over Rafah
• The key election for Russia is in November
• Governance space industry’s key issue for 2024
• Fascism on margins of the tragedy in Gaza
• Extremists cannot hold civilized world to ransom
• Why is Biden unable to hear chants of his people?
• Putin had to contrive a ‘landslide’
• Six presumed dead after ship destroys US bridge
• India strongly objects to US remarks on opposition leader Kejriwal’s arrest
• US says it doesn’t support Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project going forward
• Turkmen envoy says TAPI is a win-win project
• Gaza truce team leaves Doha, Israeli official blames Hamas for ‘dead end’
• Renault to sell about 2.5pc of Nissan shares for up to 362 million euros
• Google, Apple could face breakups as global regulators target tech monopoly
• How tech is transformi­ng SDGs into reality
• Bosch workers in Germany protests against planned job cuts
• PUBLIC NOTICE
• ‘Eyes of the world on us’: Boeing shakes up leadership amid safety crisis
• The lessons from Europe’s banking drama
• Japanese banks to benefit from tightening monetary policy: Fitch
• NCR Voyix President touts utility of ‘digitally connective’ banking
• Sri Lanka unexpected­ly cuts policy rates by 50 bps to spur growth
• Samsung may be looking to launch a super app for mobile banking

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