The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business

Universal bank Rizal Commercian Banking Corp. (RCBC) understands the need to provide customers information when they need it – and with great customer experience at the heart of its strategy, it has always pursued technologies that would make financial services useful and easily accessible to the customers. 

The first package of the comprehensive tax-reform program (CTRP) now pending in Congress will serve as the “cornerstone” of the funding for the government’s ambitious infrastructure program of the government which will require P6 trillion over the medium term. 

Cofinancing operations of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) hit a new record in 2016, exceeding the $14 billion mark and reflecting the importance of partnerships in addressing Asia and the Pacific’s continuously growing development needs, says a new ADB report. 

The Philippine Board of Investments (BOI) recently approved the P62.4-million Casa Coco Hotel projects of Altipeak Land Development Inc. and the P29.1 million Eco Container Hotel of Ecohotels Inc. These projects qualified as tourist accommodation facilities under the current Investments Priorities Plan (IPP). 

On the surface, it looks like a “happy problem”. 

I had squealed childlike at a cock’s midday crow— fortunately, a friend and I had sauntered to a rather isolated bend in Centre Island along the banks of Lake Ontario from across Toronto’s skyline, or else, recognizing an elderly Filipina that I am, selfie-driven millennials, who crowded scenic nooks like a willow-draped bridge, would have smirked, understandably, at my inappropriate, …

Despite the government’s attempt to develop other industries as economic drivers, the agriculture sector remains central to the Philippine economy. 

By Jesse C. Ong In a move that hardly surprised most PBA followers, Mahindra traded Alex Mallari to NLEX after the player was openly criticized by his coach a couple of times in the ongoing Commissioner’s Cup over his immaturity. 

Middlebrooks Academy confirmed reports on Sunday that Kobe Paras has indeed left Creighton University’s basketball team. 

Running coach Rio dela Cruz of Runrio Events, Inc. announces the start of this year’s most premier running series in the country – the Runrio Trilogy 2017 at the Okada Manila in Paranaque City.