{"id":58553,"date":"2019-12-11T12:28:24","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T07:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=58553"},"modified":"2020-09-25T13:01:17","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T08:01:17","slug":"sbp-records-9-35-increase-remittance-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sbp-records-9-35-increase-remittance-figures.html","title":{"rendered":"SBP records 9.35% increase in remittance figures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has announced an increase of 9.35% in remittances collected from overseas Pakistanis during November, a news source reported. According to the central bank, the current level of remittances now stand at USD 1.81 billion; improving the country\u2019s capacity to make foreign debt repayments and import payments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pm-economic-team-discuss-measures-to-boost-remittances.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PM, economic team discuss measures to boost remittances<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SBP reported that in the same month last year (2018), the remittances stood at USD 1.66 billion. Arif Habib Limited Head of Research Samiullah Tariq stated that the new number was encouraging \u2013 since these figures had never crossed the USD 1.7 billion mark for November, as per data of the previous four to five years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/spb-increases-transaction-limits-home-remittances.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SBP increases transaction limits for home remittances<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tariq said that SBP had recorded comparatively lower remittance inflows during the first few months of the current fiscal year 2019-20. However, he added, that the increase recorded in November had helped cover this gap. He also revealed that the current account balance had shifted from deficit to surplus in October, and they expected the same trend for November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has announced an increase of 9.35% in remittances collected from overseas Pakistanis during November, a news source reported. According to the central bank, the current level of remittances now stand at USD 1.81 billion; improving the country\u2019s capacity to make foreign debt repayments and import payments. Read:\u00a0PM, economic team discuss measures to boost remittances SBP reported that in the same month last year (2018), the remittances stood at USD 1.66 billion. Arif Habib Limited Head of Research Samiullah Tariq stated that the new number was encouraging \u2013 since these figures had never crossed the USD 1.7 billion mark for November, as per data of the previous four to five years. Read:\u00a0SBP increases transaction limits for home remittances Tariq said that SBP had recorded comparatively lower remittance inflows during the first few months of the current fiscal year 2019-20. However, he added, that the increase recorded in November had helped cover this gap. He also revealed that the current account balance had shifted from deficit to surplus in October, and they expected the same trend for November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":23688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15016],"tags":[14372],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-58553","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-developments","8":"tag-details-on-sbp-records-9-35-increase-in-remittance-figures","9":"cat-15016-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SBP records 9.35% increase in remittance figures - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Karachi: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has announced an increase of 9.35% in remittances collected from overseas Pakistanis during November, a news\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sbp-records-9-35-increase-remittance-figures.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SBP records 9.35% increase in remittance figures - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Karachi: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has announced an increase of 9.35% in remittances collected from overseas Pakistanis during November, a news\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sbp-records-9-35-increase-remittance-figures.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; Pakistan Property News &amp; Latest Updates - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ZameenPK\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-12-11T07:28:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-09-25T08:01:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sbp.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"350\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Safina Sultan\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ZameenProperty\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ZameenProperty\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Safina Sultan\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"SBP records 9.35% increase in remittance figures - Zameen News","description":"Karachi: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has announced an increase of 9.35% in remittances collected from overseas Pakistanis during November, a news","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sbp-records-9-35-increase-remittance-figures.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"SBP records 9.35% increase in remittance figures - Zameen News","og_description":"Karachi: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has announced an increase of 9.35% in remittances collected from overseas Pakistanis during November, a news","og_url":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sbp-records-9-35-increase-remittance-figures.html","og_site_name":"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; Pakistan Property News &amp; Latest Updates - Zameen News","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ZameenPK","article_published_time":"2019-12-11T07:28:24+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-09-25T08:01:17+00:00","og_image":[{"width":600,"height":350,"url":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sbp.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Safina Sultan","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@ZameenProperty","twitter_site":"@ZameenProperty","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Safina Sultan","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sbp-records-9-35-increase-remittance-figures.html#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sbp-records-9-35-increase-remittance-figures.html"},"author":{"name":"Safina Sultan","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/0f7ad58ef43a9c16d70bfd31d586f512"},"headline":"SBP records 9.35% increase in remittance figures","datePublished":"2019-12-11T07:28:24+00:00","dateModified":"2020-09-25T08:01:17+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sbp-records-9-35-increase-remittance-figures.html"},"wordCount":186,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sbp-records-9-35-increase-remittance-figures.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sbp.jpg","keywords":["details on SBP records 9.35% increase in remittance figures"],"articleSection":["New Developments"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sbp-records-9-35-increase-remittance-figures.html#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sbp-records-9-35-increase-remittance-figures.html","url":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sbp-records-9-35-increase-remittance-figures.html","name":"SBP records 9.35% increase in remittance figures - Zameen News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sbp-records-9-35-increase-remittance-figures.html#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sbp-records-9-35-increase-remittance-figures.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sbp.jpg","datePublished":"2019-12-11T07:28:24+00:00","dateModified":"2020-09-25T08:01:17+00:00","description":"Karachi: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has announced an increase of 9.35% in remittances collected from overseas Pakistanis during November, a news","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sbp-records-9-35-increase-remittance-figures.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sbp-records-9-35-increase-remittance-figures.html"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sbp-records-9-35-increase-remittance-figures.html#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sbp.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sbp.jpg","width":600,"height":350},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sbp-records-9-35-increase-remittance-figures.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"SBP records 9.35% increase in remittance figures"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/","name":"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; Pakistan Property News &amp; Latest Updates - Zameen News","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#organization","name":"Zameen.com","alternateName":"Zameen","url":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/upload\/2015\/09\/Zameen.com_-_Logo.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/upload\/2015\/09\/Zameen.com_-_Logo.png","width":600,"height":300,"caption":"Zameen.com"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ZameenPK","https:\/\/x.com\/ZameenProperty","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/zameenpk\/"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/0f7ad58ef43a9c16d70bfd31d586f512","name":"Safina Sultan","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/41ef23ce0eab3597842e7f43d50bc919f73ac1f4e11afa5f19ca36f6e55f832f?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/41ef23ce0eab3597842e7f43d50bc919f73ac1f4e11afa5f19ca36f6e55f832f?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/41ef23ce0eab3597842e7f43d50bc919f73ac1f4e11afa5f19ca36f6e55f832f?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Safina Sultan"},"description":"Safina Sultan is a Content Developer at Zameen.com.","url":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/author\/safina"}]}},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58554,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58553\/revisions\/58554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58553"},{"taxonomy":"persona","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/persona?post=58553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}