{"id":73681,"date":"2018-03-13T15:39:28","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T15:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/?p=73681"},"modified":"2018-03-13T15:39:28","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T15:39:28","slug":"pm-witnesses-inking-of-mou-for-foreign-funding-in-mobile-financial-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/2018\/03\/pm-witnesses-inking-of-mou-for-foreign-funding-in-mobile-financial-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Witnesses Inking Of MoU For Foreign Funding In Mobile Financial Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-73681-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/PM-witnesses-signing-ceremony-between-Telenor-and-Ant-13-03-2018.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/PM-witnesses-signing-ceremony-between-Telenor-and-Ant-13-03-2018.mp4\">http:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/PM-witnesses-signing-ceremony-between-Telenor-and-Ant-13-03-2018.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>ISLAMABAD, March 13 (APP): Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi Tuesday witnessed signing of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Telenor Group and Ant Financial Services Group for strategic partnership agreement in Pakistan.<br \/>\nMinister for IT &amp; telecom Anusha Rehman, Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan Yao Jing, Norwegian Ambassador to Pakistan Tore Nedrebo and senior management of Telenor and Ant Financial were present on the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>According to the MoU, Ant Financial Services Group will invest USD 184.5 m in Telenor Microfinance Bank (\u201cTMB\u201d), a subsidiary of Telenor Group, to further develop TMB\u2019s mobile payment and digital financial services.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi appreciated the partnership between Telenor Group and Ant Financials, and said that it is a manifestation of favorable Government policies for foreign investment in Pakistan.<br \/>\nHe welcomed Ant Financial\u2019s decision to invest in Pakistan and lauded Telenor\u2019s efforts towards the socio-economic development of the country. He said that the collaboration would help broadening access to financial services through digital payment solutions.<\/p>\n<p>APP\/Ahsan\/VNS Islamabad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, March 13 (APP): Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi Tuesday witnessed signing of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Telenor Group and Ant Financial Services Group for strategic partnership agreement in Pakistan. Minister for IT &amp; telecom Anusha Rehman, Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan Yao Jing, Norwegian Ambassador to Pakistan Tore Nedrebo and senior management of Telenor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":73683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-73681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"post_format-post-format-video"},"video_url":["http:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/PM-witnesses-signing-ceremony-between-Telenor-and-Ant-13-03-2018.mp4"],"featured_media_src_url":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1-132-1024x576.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73684,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73681\/revisions\/73684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}