Banking & Finance

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) is open to the use of cryptocurrencies but cited the need for vigilance since these are not regulated by any central bank, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Governor Nestor Espenilla Jr. said.

$1.1 trillion worth of Asia-Pacific financial and nonfinancial corporate debt will mature in the second half of this year through 2022, which is equivalent to about 11 percent of total debts maturing globally, ratings firm Standard and Poor’s (S&P) said in a report.

The government is exploring a grant from the United States to put up the country’s first tax academy, which will serve as a training institution that will provide revenue officials and employees continuing professional education on improving tax collection competence and efficiency.

By Riza Lozada State-owned Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) was named small and medium enterprises (SME) Bank of the Year in the The Asian Banker – Philippine Country Awards for 2017 during ceremonies held last October 6, at the Fairmont Hotel in Makati City. The awards ceremony was held in conjunction with the region’s most prestigious retail banking event, …

Logistics firm Lalamove, which has been marking strong growth in Southeast Asia and China, with a strong presence in Manila, has recently completed its latest $100M (P5 billion) Series C funding round.

Listed lender Security Bank Corp (SBC), the country’s fifth largest private bank in terms of assets and capital as of June 30, has launched its initial tranche of long term certificates of deposit (CDs) last October 17 in line with the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’ (BSP) approval to issue CDs dated October 5.

F resh business graduates should become “servant-leaders” by helping impoverished communities develop micro and small enterprises that will serve as catalysts for growth and save society’s marginalized sectors from the poverty trap, Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III said.

By Riza Lozada The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) has launched a lending program to assist Filipino inventors called the “Innovation and Technology Lending Program” or “I-TECH”.

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) Japan Center (AJC) co-sponsored a seminar entitled “Changing Trade and Investment Landscape in ASEAN and the Philippines” to highlight the importance of global value chains and non-equity mode (NEM) in the growth of Philippine exports.

By Riza Lozada The Philippine Payments Management, Inc. (PPMI), which was established to facilitate electronic payments, will assist the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) in implementing initiatives for the National Retail Payment System (NRPS).