An employee-volunteer from SM City Pampanga hands the Kalinga Pack amidst the flood. SM Foundation’s Operation Tulong Express (OPTE) continues its swift action amidst the onslaught of heavy rains amplified by Typhoons Egay and Falcon. Following its mission to provide aid to hard-hit areas, the OPTE distributed Kalinga Packs to nearly 15,000 beneficiaries all over the country. OPTE is a …

From the latest version of The Asset’s Asian Local Currency Bond Benchmark Review, RCBC Chief Economist Mike Ricafort once again ranked first in  Philippine Peso Bonds Research, retaining his star for two consecutive years.  RCBC Chief Economist, Michael Ricafort said that RCBC takes the responsibility of providing accurate financial data and forecasts to investors to heart, and this award from …

The attack surface of cloud-native applications continues to grow as adversaries look to exploit misconfigurations and vulnerabilities throughout the application life cycle. In response, the industry has turned to Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPPs) to unify multiple disparate security capabilities and protect applications from code-to-cloud. Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW) today introduced the CI/CD Security module to provide integrated …

While prizewinning TV, movie and theater actress Shamaine Centenera Buencamino, award-winning Director of Photography Neil Daza, independent director and visual artist Raya Martin. Busan International Film Festival programmer Park Sungho and Malaysian producer and film curator Lorna Tee compose the jury of the competition films—full-length features and shorts—of the 19th Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival, a lineup of distinguished board of …

Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Governor Eli M. Remolona, Jr.  (in left photo) discussed the central bank’s latest inflation outlook, inflation-targeting framework and current account outlook with investors in meetings held on 10 to 11 July 2023 at the Citi headquarters in New York City. On their part, the Philippine economic managers highlighted the country’s sound macroeconomic fundamentals and game-changing …

Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Governor Eli M. Remolona, Jr. discussed price stability, post-pandemic economic recovery, and climate change at the first-ever Philippine Economic Briefing (PEB) in Toronto, Canada on 13 July 2023. He said the central bank’s flexible inflation-targeting framework mandates the BSP to be “structurally hawkish when it comes to inflation” and to focus mainly on price stability. …

Sustainability is everybody’s business.  Mother Earth is our home and we need to pull together to take care of it. One concrete step we can take is to reduce our plastic waste. Plastic is a major pollutant and cutting down on it makes a difference. Iya Villania Arellano understands this problem and  advocates responsible earth-friendly consumption, “We cannot go through …

Bulk of Philippine businesses plan a full-scale cloud migration in two years, while some of them seek to increase their investment in cloud in 2023, a survey entitled “The Next-Generation Cloud Strategy in Asia” revealed. The survey was commissioned by Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group. The survey found that the surge of interest among …

In line with advancing the shift towards cashless transactions, the Land Bank of the Philippines (LANDBANK) is helping store owners in Victorias Commercial Center to embrace the use of digital payments.  Juliet de la Torre is among the local vendors with a LANDBANK account who has adopted the use of Quick Response (QR) technology to accept payments, since the recent …

A Cavite-based restaurant with a premium flair is positioning itself as a go-to wedding venue and events place by going digital in its operations and offering fiber-fast connectivity to customers.  Running a restaurant with world-class dishes – the likes of salmon saffron and sea bass are on the menu – requires acquiring a world-class management system that is at par …