Banking & Finance

International payments service firm Visa has hosted its first-ever Financial Literacy Day for students in Manila, in cooperation with Teach for the Philippines (TFP) and the Money Museum at Bang­ko Sentral ng Pilipinas.

State pension fund Govern­ment Service Insurance System (GSIS) was chosen as a finalist in the Technology Innovation Award at the 7th World Pension Summit held last November 10 at The Hague, Netherlands.

By Riza Lozada Remittances from overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) grew 4.7 percent in the first nine months to $20 billion after $2.6 billion in money transfers were recorded in September.

Three new directors were named to the board of the state-owned Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP). They are Luis Bonguyan, Emmanuel Galicia Jr., and Rolando Metin vice Daniel Laogan, Reynaldo Geronimo, and Cecilio Lorenzo.

Financing firm First Circle is targeting to more than double its small and medium enterprises (SME) client portfolio by 2017 through the use of technology that provides easy access to collateral-free loans.

East West Banking Corp. (EastWest) reported a net profit of P2.33 billion for the first nine months which was 78 percent higher from a year ago with net interest income delivering a 24 percent growth in the period to P11.21 billion.

By Riza Lozada The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) is expected to raise policy rates only in the second quar­ter of next year as the inflation rates are expected to remain within gov­ernment target for the rest of the year, an economist of investment bank ING Bank said.

The state-owned Develop­ment Bank of the Philippines (DBP) and the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Regions 6 and 11 have forged an agreement for the im­plementation of the Adopt a Negosyo Center Program in Iloilo and Davao which is aimed at addressing the me­dium and long term needs of micro, small and medium en­terprises (MSMEs) to enable them to …

Tax collections from insurance com­panies rose 12 percent in 2015 from the previous year, Insurance Com­mission (IC) data showed.

Major lender Bank of the Phil­ippine Islands (BPI) and West­pac Banking Corp. (Westpac), Australia’s first bank, recently entered into a strategic part­nership to facilitate low cost and fast transfer of funds from Filipinos living in Australia to their families in the Philippines.