easypaisa digital bank hosted the senior leadership of 1LINK at its Islamabad office, bringing together Jahanzeb Khan, President and CEO of easypaisa, and Najeeb Agrawalla, CEO of 1LINK, along with their respective teams to explore ways to deepen collaboration on digitalisation. The meeting brought together two organizations that already work closely within Pakistan’s payments infrastructure, given 1LINK’s role as the country’s domestic payment switch and easypaisa’s position as one of the leading digital banks issuing PayPak cards.
The discussion highlighted easypaisa’s strong performance on PayPak specifically, with the digital bank positioned as one of the leading issuers of the card scheme in its category. That performance gives the two organizations a natural starting point for deeper collaboration, since 1LINK operates the underlying PayPak network while easypaisa represents one of its more active issuing partners, meaning improvements or new initiatives discussed between the two could have a direct bearing on how PayPak transactions flow across the broader network.
Both teams also looked at new ways to drive PayPak growth, innovation, and digital payments adoption together, though the specific initiatives discussed were not detailed publicly. Conversations of this kind between a card scheme operator and a major issuer typically cover areas such as expanding acceptance points, introducing new use cases for the card, improving transaction processing, or coordinating on promotional campaigns designed to encourage more customers to use PayPak for everyday payments rather than cash or other card networks.
No specific outcomes, timelines, or new initiatives were announced following the meeting, and neither organization indicated when a follow-up engagement might take place. The discussion adds to a pattern of collaboration between banks and 1LINK aimed at growing PayPak’s footprint within Pakistan’s broader digital payments ecosystem, following similar engagement 1LINK has had with other banks and partners on expanding self-service and interoperable banking infrastructure.
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