{"id":79767,"date":"2021-09-17T11:44:59","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T06:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=79767"},"modified":"2021-09-17T11:45:04","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T06:45:04","slug":"sbp-women-friendly-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sbp-women-friendly-policy.html","title":{"rendered":"SBP devises women-friendly policy to bridge gender gap in banking sector"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Karachi: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Thursday (September 16) announced formulating a \u2018Banking on Equality\u2019 policy to reduce the gender gap in the banking sector, according to news sources. It was reported that President Dr Arif Alvi will launch the women-friendly policy of SBP today (September 17).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sbp-framework-open-bank-accounts-remotely.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SBP framework formed to facilitate opening of bank accounts remotely<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the details, Banking on Equality is a flagship policy of SBP that will transform the banking sector through adopting women-friendly business practices and policies. The policy has an extensive theme of improving the access of women to financial services. Through this policy, SBP aims to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sbp-invites-feedback-policy-enhance-financial-inclusion-women.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bring gender diversity <\/a>in financial institutions and motivate women to access formal financial services.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under this policy, SBP has specified certain key points. One of the important points of the policy is to provide women-centric products that will cater to the financial needs of women while increasing financial literacy. It will also help in creating awareness about women-centric products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sbp-investment-opportunities-nrps.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SBP introduces new investment opportunities for Overseas Pakistanis<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moreover, specialised resources and women champions will be available at all customer touchpoints to provide an enhanced customer experience. Another point of the policy is collecting gender-disaggregated data, setting the target for informed policy interventions, and post-launch monitoring and evaluation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Thursday (September 16) announced formulating a \u2018Banking on Equality\u2019 policy to reduce the gender gap in the banking sector, according to news sources. It was reported that President Dr Arif Alvi will launch the women-friendly policy of SBP today (September 17).\u00a0 Read: SBP framework formed to facilitate opening of bank accounts remotely As per the details, Banking on Equality is a flagship policy of SBP that will transform the banking sector through adopting women-friendly business practices and policies. The policy has an extensive theme of improving the access of women to financial services. Through this policy, SBP aims to bring gender diversity in financial institutions and motivate women to access formal financial services.\u00a0 Under this policy, SBP has specified certain key points. One of the important points of the policy is to provide women-centric products that will cater to the financial needs of women while increasing financial literacy. It will also help in creating awareness about women-centric products. Read: SBP introduces new investment opportunities for Overseas Pakistanis Moreover, specialised resources and women champions will be available at all customer touchpoints to provide an enhanced customer experience. Another point of the policy is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":76276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15016],"tags":[48233,48236,48234,48232,21853,48235],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-79767","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-developments","8":"tag-banking-on-equality","9":"tag-gender-diversity-in-financial-institutions","10":"tag-launch-the-women-friendly-policy","11":"tag-sbp-devises-women-friendly-policy-to-bridge-gender-gap-in-banking-sector","12":"tag-state-bank-of-pakistan-sbp","13":"tag-transform-the-banking-sector","14":"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 devises women-friendly policy to bridge gender gap- Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Thursday (September 16) announced formulating a \u2018Banking on Equality\u2019 policy to reduce the gender gap......\" \/>\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-women-friendly-policy.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SBP devises women-friendly policy to bridge gender gap- Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Thursday (September 16) announced formulating a \u2018Banking on Equality\u2019 policy to reduce the gender gap......\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sbp-women-friendly-policy.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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