fintech

6 posts tagged fintech, newest first.

Nov 1, 2026

The best performing mutual funds in Pakistan depend on which year you ask

Over the last year, the median money market fund in Pakistan beat the KSE-100. Over three years, it's not close. Here are the top funds in each category on both clocks, with payouts included.

Nov 1, 2026

How Raast works, and why it hasn't won the shop counter yet

Raast is instant, free and works on a phone number, and Pakistanis use it hundreds of millions of times a quarter. At the shop counter it's a different story, and the reason is economics, not technology.

Aug 29, 2026

Agentic wallets: when your money gets an API

AI agents can now book, buy and pay. The missing piece was a wallet they can actually control. Here is the market being built around agentic payments, and where I think it goes.

Payments PM interview questions I actually ask, with a dark payment card motif

Aug 24, 2026

Payments product manager interview questions, from talking to fellow PMs

Fifteen questions that come up in real payments PM interviews, what each one is testing and what strong answers sound like. Gathered from comparing notes with fellow payments PMs.

Aug 19, 2026

Fintech in emerging markets plays by different rules

Most fintech writing assumes a US context: cards everywhere, trust by default, one currency. Across MENAP the defaults flip. Here's what actually changes when you build where cash is the incumbent and mobile is the front door.

Jul 19, 2026

I built a free API for Pakistani mutual fund NAVs (because MUFAP's own one doesn't work)

MUFAP's own JSON endpoints reject any request that isn't a browser. So I scraped their public Fund Directory instead and open-sourced the result: a small, free API serving live NAVs for 500+ Pakistani mutual funds.