Arif Lakhani

Founder and CEO

This entry is a stub. It records only what the archive currently documents.

Appearances

DateTitleWhere
2025-10-29 You can buy anything on installments in Pakistan Thought Behind Things
2022-07-01 The BNPL startup targeting Pakistan's unbanked majority Thought Behind Things

References

  1. You can buy anything on installments in Pakistan . Thought Behind Things , 2025-10-29.
  2. The BNPL startup targeting Pakistan's unbanked majority . Thought Behind Things , 2022-07-01.

What the archive records

Arif Lakhani runs Kist Bazaar, Pakistan's regulated buy-now-pay-later platform. The company operates in nine cities with 76 branches and has disbursed nearly 8 billion rupees across 120,000 loans. Lakhani comes from a background in informal lending, which shaped the company's mission to bring regulation and transparency to consumer credit.