{"id":93977,"date":"2026-02-20T10:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T05:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=93977"},"modified":"2026-02-20T10:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T05:00:06","slug":"garaj-supports-launch-pakistans-first-fully-islamic-digital-retail-bank-on-local-cloud-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/garaj-supports-launch-pakistans-first-fully-islamic-digital-retail-bank-on-local-cloud-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"Garaj supports launch, Pakistan\u2019s first fully Islamic Digital Retail Bank, on Local Cloud Infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Garaj, the cloud and cybersecurity solutions platform from JazzWorld, has successfully enabled the launch of Raqami Islamic Digital Bank, Pakistan\u2019s first fully Islamic digital retail bank to operate entirely on domestic cloud infrastructure.<br \/>\nThis milestone reflects Garaj\u2019s capability to host mission-critical financial systems while reinforcing Raqami Islamic Digital Bank\u2019s ambition to redefine digital banking in Pakistan.<br \/>\nDesigned as a cloud-native institution, Raqami Islamic Digital Bank has deployed its complete technology stack \u2013 including core banking, digital channels, and fully operational Production (PR) and Disaster Recovery (DR) environments \u2013 on Garaj\u2019s enterprise-grade cloud platform. By adopting a fully hosted model at inception, Raqami has eliminated legacy constraints and established a scalable, performance-driven foundation designed for sustained digital growth.<br \/>\nSpeaking at the occasion, Shahzad Rasheed, President Enterprise Solutions, JazzWorld, stated, \u201cAs a fully Islamic digital bank, Raqami Islamic Digital Bank, requires a cloud environment capable of supporting regulated banking operations, and our partnership with them highlights our commitment towards building a digital foundation that Pakistan can rely on \u2013 one that is secure, resilient, and designed for national scale.\u201d<br \/>\nUmair Aijaz, CEO at Raqami Islamic Digital Bank, added, \u201cAs Pakistan\u2019s first fully Islamic digital retail bank, our foundation had to be secure, scalable, and future-ready from inception. Partnering with Garaj enabled us to deploy our complete technology stack on a trusted domestic cloud platform. This positions us to accelerate innovation while maintaining rigorous standards of security, reliability, and regulatory alignment.\u201d<br \/>\nRaqami Islamic Digital Bank will run on Garaj\u2019s Tier III\u2013certified infrastructure, with built-in redundancy to ensure high availability for regulated financial workloads. The platform further includes core security controls such as monitoring, access governance, and threat detection, to support secure operations and long-term scalability.<br \/>\nThis milestone establishes a new standard for cloud-hosted financial services in Pakistan and strengthens Garaj\u2019s role in deploying a business continuity-enabled service that powers Raqami\u2019s rise as a next-generation digital bank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garaj, the cloud and cybersecurity solutions platform from JazzWorld, has successfully enabled the launch of Raqami Islamic Digital Bank, Pakistan\u2019s first fully Islamic digital retail bank to operate entirely on domestic cloud infrastructure. This milestone reflects Garaj\u2019s capability to host mission-critical financial systems while reinforcing Raqami Islamic Digital Bank\u2019s ambition to redefine digital banking in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":94005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94006,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93977\/revisions\/94006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}