The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business

Jerry Maglunog Problems bug the country’s automated teller machines (ATMs) ranging from the low load of cash to interconnection problems and the government is hard put trying to fix it.

Forbes Media LLC, publisher of what is considered as business bible Forbes, has chosen the Philippines for its 15th annual Forbes Global CEO Conference slated on October 12 to 14.

Riza Lozada The local credit card industry, which has been growing an average of five percent a year for the past 35 years, is aggressively pushing for implementation of the centralized credit information database as well as the national identification system to realize bigger growth rates.

Jerry Maglunog There is a clamor among officials of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) that they get immunity from suit during the painful process of putting a distressed bank under the receivership of the Philippine Deposit Insurance Corp. (PDIC).

Riza Lozada Financial literacy will have to be inculcated in the minds of Filipinos to achieve a secured future, Sen. Sonny Angara said.

Dean dela Paz / The Next Page Recently, a crusted and cloyed issue nearly a third of a century old, albeit one that resurrects and recurs every so often, reared its intrusive head and merited not just a banner headline in at least one of the major broadsheets but a sudden and unscheduled emergency meeting called by a troubled and …

Alegria A. Imperial / Peregrine Notes Scraped to the bone on its back, lacerated breast and broken wings, and limp as a rag dumped into the trash, death could have been just a few heartbeats away three weeks ago in Panton, Galicia, Spain. But a woman taking out rubbish noticed a weak blink in its eyes, held it and felt …

In record time, the Senate Committee on Peace and Order and Dangerous Drugs under the chairmanship of Sen. Grace Poe released the findings of its investigation on the Mamasapano tragedy that resulted in the death of 44 Special Action Force (SAF) troopers.

Bloomberry Resorts Corp. (BRC), owner and operator (through its subsidiaries) of the Solaire Resort and Casino, reported P4.072 billion in net profit last year to reverse a P1.315 billion loss a year ago.

Asian businesses will be challenged this year as a result of the impact of the worsening political situation in some European countries and China’s weakening economy, the outcome of the annual outlook and risk conference of a credit insurance firm indicated.