The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business

Construction equipment supplier Holcim Philippines, Inc. held a series of meetings last October with key stakeholders in the public and private sector to share innovative approaches and technologies that can help cut costs, speed up construction and improve durability of structures in the nationwide upgrade of infrastructure.

By Riza Lozada Local leisure company Bloomberry Resorts Corp. reported consolidated third quarter profit of P1.852 billion was 31 percent higher year-on-year mainly driven by a 46 percent year-on-year improvement from Solaire that was muted by a swing to net loss by the Korean operations.

Global port operator International Container Terminal Services Inc. (ICTSI) posted a net income of $149.3 million, up five percent from $141.9 million a year ago due to the continuing ramp-up at the new terminal in Matadi, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC); strong operating income contribution from the terminals in Iraq, Mexico, Honduras, Brazil and Madagascar; and the one-time gain on …

By Riza Lozada The initial operations of the Overseas Filipino Bank (OFB), a bank devoted to overseas Filipino workers (OFW), will proceed as scheduled in January 2018, following the assurance by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) that the approvals from the necessary clearing institutions will be secured before the end of the year, the Department of Finance said in …

With financial transactions becoming more and more interconnected and complex risks have evolved and magnified and these developments from a financial regulator’s perspective, mandate a transition from stand-alone to system-wide oversight.

By Riza Lozada Top lender Metropolitan Bank and Trust Company (Metrobank) reported an unaudited consolidated net income of P13.2 billion in the first nine-months of 2017, up five percent from last year. 

Universal bank BDO Unibank, the country’s largest bank in terms of assets, was the only Philippine financial institution to be named in the top 50 of Forbes’ Best Employers in the world for 2017.

Four years after Typhoon Yolanda struck the Visayas region, reconstruction and rehabilitation is still not being felt by many of those in disaster-affected communities.

LOS ANGELES: Uber unveiled a partnership with NASA that will see it develop flying taxis priced competitively with standard Uber journeys.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI) to promote greater financial inclusion in the Asia and Pacific region. The MOU will enable the two institutions to work more closely to enhance peer learning and knowledge sharing in advancing financial inclusion policies in the region.