Web Desk
August 21, 2024
Oil prices tanked on Wednesday, influenced by the latest data indicating a rise in US crude inventories and expectations of […]
It’s a long historical academic debate about why so many marketing and military terminologies resemble and are inter-changeably used e.g. Brand warfare, goals, targets, objectives, positioning, impact, action, intelligence, strategy, tactical moves, attack strategies (frontal, flank, guerrilla, encirclement & bypass), position strategies (position strategy, contraction strategy, counter-offensive strategy, preemptive defensive strategy, and mobile defensive strategy), […]
There is an unspoken playbook in Pakistani brand management that everyone follows without writing it down. When a crisis hits – like a labor issue, product failure, social media backlash, or an employee speaking out – the usual reaction is to say nothing. They call legal teams and PR agencies, try to kill the story, […]
For years, Pakistan’s banking system treated crypto like a contagion. That officially changed on April 14, 2026. The State Bank of Pakistan issued BPRD Circular Letter No. 10 of 2026 today, effectively replacing the 2018 blanket prohibition on virtual currencies with a structured, compliance-heavy framework that allows banks to work with licensed crypto companies for […]
HBL is Pakistan’s largest bank by almost every metric that matters: assets, branch network, international presence, and retail penetration. What it has historically struggled with is something that balance sheets cannot measure: emotional relevance. For most of its existence, HBL has communicated as a bank communicates products, rates, reach, and reliability. Competent positioning for an […]
Pakistan has no official Brand Loyalty Index. No YouGov BrandIndex. No Kantar BrandZ Pakistan edition. No nationally published, annually updated instrument that tells marketers which brands are actually winning repeat purchase, emotional attachment, and switching resistance across the country’s 240 million consumers. What exists instead is a fragmented picture assembled from a Nielsen consumer survey […]
As remittances approach $1tn annually, digital payment companies are expanding beyond transfers into cross-border financial ecosystems. Global remittances have quietly become one of the largest financial flows in the world. Each year, migrant workers send hundreds of billions of dollars to families and communities across developing economies. According to migration and financial market data, global […]
