In Pakistan, we have a habit of solving yesterday’s problems. Policy papers, strategy reports and op-eds routinely cite…
Almost a decade after the demolishing of Empress Market’s surrounding areas, auctions seem to have made a strong…
Last Friday, Pakistan Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority, PVARA, announced the launch of a sandbox, i.e. a supervised testing…
A few weeks back, I wrote about how AI has pushed capital concentration to recent, if not new,…
Diversification is the closest thing to a free lunch in finance — the one principle every LP, allocator,…
Since Donald Trump returned to the White House on January 20, 2025, the global order seems to have…
Pakistan’s digital payments story is a bit strange. If you ask people about their experience, you wouldn’t stop…
Almost everywhere in the world, state-owned enterprises have a reputation problem, and rightly so. There’s just something gloomy…
As a country, Pakistan kinda sucks at storytelling. Geopolitical events post-2000 surely made things difficult but even besides…
In January 2025, we released a teaser of our report, with support from Indus Valley Capital, exploring the…
