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PayPak (Urdu: پے پاک) is a domestic payment service available in Pakistan. [1] It was launched in 2016 by 1Link to save inter-change costs of International Payment Schemes. PayPak cards can only be used on ATMs, POS terminals, and online transactions within Pakistan. [2]
In June 2002, Union Bank acquired 10 branches of Emirates Bank in Pakistan for $18 million. [2] In 2006, Standard Chartered Bank acquired 81% of Union Bank's shares for US$413 million. Under Pakistani law, it had to delist Union Bank and make an offer for the outstanding shares; the offer raised the total purchase price to about US$511.
In line with State Bank of Pakistan vision 2020 to enhance and promote financial inclusion, 1LINK launched Pakistan’s first domestic payment scheme – PayPak in April, 2016. [4] PayPak has 10% of market share in terms of volume of cards in the market. [5] While Visa has 40%, Mastercard and UnionPay have 25% each of market share. [5]
Western Union is the world's leading handler of remittance and the 170,000 Western Union agents handle about 25 percent of the total global remittance traffic. [10] Other companies such as MoneyGram have also been a key player for decades. Pure play money transfer providers may be owned by parent companies with more diverse interests.
Raast (Urdu: راست; lit. ' direct ') is an instant payment system developed by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP). [1] It operates using the state-of-the-art Pakistan Faster Payment System (PFPS), facilitating real-time settlement of small-value retail payments, including inter-bank peer-to-peer (P2P) and person-to-merchant (P2M) transactions. [2]
Citi Bank N.A (CitiBank N.A Pakistan) Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited (ICBC Pakistan) Bank of China [3] (Bank of China Pakistan Branch) The Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank (HSBC Bank Pakistan) The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (MUFG Bank Pakistan) Saudi National Bank (Samba Financial Group|Samba Bank (Pakistan) Limited)
[2] [3] It was founded in October 2009 by Telenor Pakistan. [4] It also provides digital payment services through a QR code in partnership with Masterpass and it is the only GSMA mobile money certified service in Pakistan. [5] Easypaisa was initially launched as a money transfer service through Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD ...
Instant payment (sometimes referred to as real-time payment or faster payment) is a method of electronic funds transfer, allowing for almost immediate transfer of money between bank accounts. This was in contrast to the previous transfer times of one to three business days that had been in place until the mid-2010s.