Overview
- The State Bank of Pakistan formally launched InvestPak on Monday with a live web portal and mobile app that let users open Investor Portfolio of Securities accounts and trade government papers online.
- The platform lets individuals, corporates and foreign investors bid in primary auctions and trade in the secondary market, and it supports small-ticket entry with reported minimums around Rs5,000 through mobile wallets such as JazzCash.
- SBP rolled out a nationwide media campaign plus a dedicated InvestPak call centre and online support to drive onboarding and explain how users can link PKR accounts and manage multiple IPS accounts from a single interface.
- Officials framed InvestPak as a policy move to diversify the investor base and reduce the government’s reliance on commercial banks, noting that banks still hold about 78% of marketable government securities while non-bank holdings have risen to over Rs10 trillion and daily secondary trading reached near Rs991 billion in May.
- The platform was developed under a World Bank–funded project and officials say uptake and the effect on bank lending and market composition will be tracked as investors and financial institutions adopt the system.