Shows
IFN OnAirTransforming Islamic Finance Through Digital and Fintech InnovationHow are Islamic financial institutions leveraging digital tools and fintech partnerships to transform service delivery, drive innovation, and expand financial inclusion? We explore how AI, mobile apps, and tech-enabled platforms are improving efficiency and customer experience, assess the regulatory and infrastructure challenges ahead, and ask how digital innovation can offer sustainable, scalable solutions for the growth of Islamic finance.Moderator:Syed Faraz Anwer, Partner, A.F. Ferguson & Co. (PwC Pakistan)Panelists:Husain Alkhaja, GCC Regional Director, DDCAPNaureen Hyat, Financial...
2025-11-0549 min
How to Lend Money to StrangersA fintech pioneer and change bringer in Pakistan, with Naureen Hyat (Tez/ ZoodPay)When Naureen Hyat and Humza Hussain joined forces with Nadeem Hussain, the founder behind the world’s second-largest branchless banking solution, they decided to pivot their B2B microfinance business towards the consumer, giving rise to Tez, the first FinTech in Pakistan to get a digital lending licence. They made mistakes quickly and learned from them, creating a scalable and digital lending model with risk at or below the levels of the OpEx heavy manual models of old."Our first cohort was probably the best part of the learning journey for us, because we...
2023-03-2323 min
DigiTales1000 rupee loans, the microfinance revolution of Pakistan| Naureen Hyat CEO Tez Financial ServicesIn this Women's Day Special, Faizan talks to Naureen Hyat, CEO and Co-Founder of Tez Financial Services. They talk about her journey from being a corporate worker to an entrepreneur. How she co-founded Tez Financial Services. How Tez worked to serve the bottom of the pyramid. They also talk about her struggles as a woman entrepreneur in Pakistan.
2023-03-0334 min
Investing at 25The Journey of Innovation at Pakistan's First Financial Digital Institution with Naureen HyatEpisode #7 of my series: Investing at 25
I'm so excited to share Founder Stories, where we don't cover the over glorified wins of the founders, instead dive straight into the challenges and hardships they faced when they decided to embark on their journeys.
Naureen Hyat is the Co-Founder & CEO at Tez Financial Services, Pakistan's first financial digital institution that provides access to aggregating credit, savings, insurance, and investments on one single platform. Listen till the very end to hear how Naureen started her career in finance and ended up co-founding a startup that got acquired by Zo...
2022-11-1023 min
Future Design Podcast#026 Extera: True Mission of Fintech - Naureen Hyat (Co-founder Tez Financial Services)In the last 40 years, the region that has moved out of the poverty line and over the income bracket of over $5 was the Asia Pacific. However still nearly half of them live below that line. Africa has increased its population but still the majority of them live underneath this line. Perhaps fintech's super USP is being able to serve the un / under-banked population due to the rise in mobile phone penetration. However financial literacy is still an issue amongst all other societal issues. Naureen Hyat is the co-founder of Tez Financial Services based in Pakistan...
2020-08-3128 min
Social Impact PioneersNaureen Hyat: Co-Founder and Business Head, Tez Financial ServicesKatie Hyson, Director of Thought Leadership at Business Fights Poverty, interviews Naureen Hyat, Co-Founder and Business Head at Tez Financial Services and Visa Everywhere Initiative: Fintech Challenge Winner.
During this week’s Spotlight interview podcast, we speak with Naureen Hyat. Naureen is a serial entrepreneur ranked on the Women in FinTech Powerlist 2017.
She is co-founder of Tez Financial Services – the first fully digital financial institution in Pakistan, providing frictionless financial access to the unbanked and underbanked. She has been an Assessor of the SMART Campaign – with the aim to accelerate financial inclusion. She is also a Pakistan Credit Rating Agency alumnu...
2019-10-1511 min
Superpowers for Good: Empowering Changemakers for Social Impact via Regulated Investment Crowdfunding from the SuperCrowd.Social Entrepreneur Works To Bring 100 Million Underserved People Into Pakistani Financial System - #1151Having created the fastest growing fintech company in Pakistan by on-boarding more than 70,000 people, Naureen Hyat, 33, co-founder and head of Tez Financial Services has a long way to go to reach her goal of financially empowering the 100 million people in her country who are unbanked or under-banked.Visa recently held a Shark Tank-style competition for women entrepreneurs in around the world in two categories, fintech and social impact. Hyat won the $100,000 prize in the fintech arena—despite a genuine integration of social impact in her model. The prize also included mentorship and access to Visa products and se...
2019-08-3015 min
The Responsible Finance PodcastInterview with SDG Challenge winner Naureen Hyat, Business Head, Tez Financial ServicesNaureen Hyat, Business Head at Tez Financial Services, describes the upcoming launch of a pilot version of the company’s nano-loans FinTech product. Hyat, whose company won the Support Disruption for Good Challenge at the RFI Summit in Zurich in May, said the pilot would start in selected locations within Pakistan before a final rollout across the entire country.
2017-08-0116 min