On 18 June, McDonald’s PH branches turned purple with the release of their BTS meal, a collaboration with global K-POP sensation BTS. The partnership was met with both positive responses as well as a tremendous backlash against the product.

There is a new online modus operandi going around wherein an email or text message that claims to be from Alfamart is giving away gift cards worth up to PhP 7,000. To get a chance to “win” the said prize, all the victim must do is answer a survey and register.

The Philippine government is doubling its efforts to improve anti-money laundering and terrorist financing regulations for the purpose of getting the country removed from the watchlist of Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a global dirty money watchdog.

Metropolitan Bank & Trust Co. (Metrobank) garnered accolades in the first-ever Privacy Awareness Week (PAW) Awards of the National Privacy Commission (NPC).

Local exporters are incurring higher costs and losses due to disruptions in the global container shipping industry.

The number of low-income Filipinos who own bank or financial accounts has almost doubled in recent years due, in large part, to the continued digitalization of financial services, according to the central bank.

At least half of the total retail transactions will be online as early as next year or one year ahead of the 2023 target of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) as the regulator continues to ramp up efforts to transform the Philippines to a cash-lite from a cash-heavy economy.

Bank lending worsened its slump in April to post its worst contraction in over two decades, a grim reminder of the limits of the central bank’s powers in supporting the country’s pandemic-hit economy.

The COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the Philippine’s Travel & Tourism sector last year wiped out $37 billion from the nation’s economy and caused two million to lose their jobs.

The Department of Finance (DOF) bucked assertions that the Philippines will be the “laggard in Asia” in a post-pandemic world.