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performance criteria for           ATMs for efficient ATM            core Islamic Banking concepts
           Primary Dealer status in order     management, Customer claim        by bankers  themselves and

           to encourage more entities         handling and dispute              for responding to customer
           (including NBFIs) to become        resolution and effective          queries . Various lines of
           part of the PD system and          compliance of SBP                 questioning including issue of
           have direct access to primary      instructions on the subject.      issue of reference rate,

           Government Securities              The session was delivered         Islamic Banking with SBP (also
           auctions. Hence, an                jointly by a Commercial           being regulator of
           awareness session on this          Banking expert and resource       conventional Banking) as
           new framework was                  from Payment System               regulator, assurance of
           conducted for a mixed              Department, SBP.                  Shariah-compliance at banks,

           audience of banks/DFIs &           Another session on Islamic        difference of opinion among
           NBFIs to discuss the PD            Banking Operations was            Ulema about Islamic banking,
           selection criteria, their          conducted on May 26-27,           sharing of losses in Islamic
           Privileges/ Obligations and        2021 after an initial             Banks, treatment in case of

           SBP expectations from the          assessment of Islamic             delay in payment by customer
           dealers selected as                Banks/Branches operating in       and other relevant questions
           applications are invited for       the remote areas of               raised by public were
           FY22. Mr. Masud Taj, Joint         Balochistan. As these             discussed in detail.
           Director, Domestic Money           branches are more focused on      The third one-day session was

           Market Dept, SBP conducted         deposit-side banking, the         conducted on AML/CFT on
           the session which was              covered topics included an        June 12, 2021. Given
           attended by senior                 elaborate discussion on           connectivity issues reported
           management of Brokerage            Riba,its types ,                  by some participants during
           Houses and Investment              misconceptions and modern         the previous sessions, this

           Banks.                             forms Riba, pool management       online session was organized
           NIBAF-Quetta also continued        guidelines, calculations for      at City Hotel, Loralai for

           to offer programs under the        return on deposit under           participants from Loralai and
           Special Programs for Interior      Murabaha, key questions on        adjoining areas while those
           Balochistan and offered three      Islamic banking both for          from other areas joined the
           sessions in the Quarter. The       enhanced understanding of         session remotely.
           first session on ATM

           Operations and Regulations
           was conducted on April 06-07
           , 2021 in order to familiarize
           officers of banks planning
           new ATM installations with

           the basic operations as well
           as to clarify and further
           explain SBP regulations to
           branch staff with installed






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