Built by Global Earners, for Pakistan

One of the co-founders had been freelancing on Upwork for years and had a consistent income. One day a routine payment came in from a client he had worked with many times before and he woke up to an email from Payoneer telling him his account was under review and he could not send or receive funds until further notice. He was given no explanation or timeline, only a customer ID number and a generic apology for the inconvenience.

It was not the first time. Between the two of us, we had cycled through Payoneer, Wise, and every other option available to us. The pattern was always the same. Platforms were built for other markets, treating Pakistani users as a compliance risk rather than a customer. Email-only support that takes days to respond. Fees that quietly eat into every payment. And always, the possibility that your account could be frozen at any moment for reasons that are never fully explained.

We are not outsiders looking in at this problem. We are two Pakistanis who lived it. So instead of waiting for someone else to fix it, we built Nostro.