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Arab News
7 days ago
- Business
- Arab News
Pakistan regulator unveils gender policy to boost women's role in corporate, finance sectors
KARACHI: Pakistan's top financial regulator on Tuesday launched a draft policy aimed at tackling gender inequality in the country's corporate and financial sectors, seeking to improve women's representation on company boards, expand access to finance for women entrepreneurs and make workplaces more inclusive. The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) published its Women EquiSmart Policy 2025–2028 for public consultation on its website, calling it the first comprehensive gender framework for regulated sectors such as capital markets, insurance and non-banking finance. 'The draft framework reflects the SECP's strategic shift from fragmented diversity efforts to a structured, cohesive regulatory approach to gender inclusion, aligned with national priorities and global frameworks,' the regulator said in a statement. The draft policy is built around six pillars, including women's leadership on boards, gender-disaggregated reporting, women's entrepreneurship, gender-smart financial products, inclusive workplace practices and institutional capacity building. The statement said it identifies policy gaps, proposes timelines and regulatory actions and assigns roles to key stakeholders across the public and private sectors. While Pakistan has seen efforts in recent years to promote workplace equality — such as corporate codes encouraging gender diversity — these have largely remained voluntary and inconsistently implemented. SECP's proposed framework seeks to introduce a more enforceable and measurable approach to gender inclusion.
Yahoo
14-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Tariff uncertainty has CEOs pausing big investing plans: El-Erian
CEOs are hitting pause on big investments, stuck in wait-and-see mode as they assess the impact of trade policy and global uncertainty. Mohamed El-Erian, president of Queens College, Cambridge and board member at Under Armour, joins Morning Brief to explain how corporate leaders are navigating market volatility (^GSPC, ^IXIC, ^DJI) and tariff concerns. Be sure to check out the full interview with Mohamed El-Erian. To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Morning Brief here. Mohammed, um, as as we and our viewers know, you are a long time veteran, very well-known investor. But they may not know you've also served on a number of corporate boards. You're currently, uh, on the board of Under Armour. So I'm not going to ask you specifically about those businesses, but I am going to ask you about your that experience, um, with these corporations and how they're tackling this current moment and how challenging or not, maybe they're finding it. So most CEOs I know will tell you that we are in a wait and see, Julie. We're waiting to see what is going to evolve. And that's important because it impacts your supply chains. It impacts how you think of where your markets are. Um, so whereas the financial markets seem comfortable, what we're seeing on the CEO side is postponement, postponement of major investment plans, just waiting to see. It makes a huge difference whether the tariffs are 30% or 10%. It makes a huge difference whether the tariffs are volatile or whether they're going to be fixed. So companies are doing what most people would do is, you know what? I'm not going to commit multi-year investment funding until I know what landscape I'm operating in. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
