PSE elects two new directors to board
THE Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) on Wednesday elected Cecile L. Ang as its nonbroker director representing investors, and Jaime J. Bautista as an independent...
EastWest to increase tech spend
EAST WEST Banking Corp. (EastWest Bank) plans to gradually increase its spending on technology next year to expand its online capabilities and improve its...
BDO raises $500M from dollar bonds
BDO UNIBANK, Inc. has raised $500 million from its sale of five-year dollar-denominated bonds that marked its return to the offshore debt market after...
BSP to release monthly consumer, business expectations surveys
THE BANGKO SENTRAL ng Pilipinas (BSP) is looking to release monthly versions of its consumer and business expectations surveys starting next year as part...
Who needs birthday cake when you have a basket of dumplings?
DIN TAI FUNG celebrates 10 years in the Philippines this month through a special Birthday Basket featuring mainstays and one-off dumplings through the years.
The coquette has grown up
WHEN Lartizan first opened its doors in Bonifacio Global City’s Serendra in 2014, BusinessWorld wrote that it “had an air of a dollhouse that had grown up around the young girl who once played with it.”
Ice cream only: Magnum braces for life on its own as Unilever spin-off nears
GLOUCESTER, England — Unilever’s ice cream business is gearing up for its multi-billion-dollar spin-off next month, ready to tackle challenges from logistics to the...
Clear signals now, more than ever
By Wilfredo G. Reyes
“Bummer,” I told myself as successive news stories on the widening graft mess further eroding our economic growth prospects and business sentiment, and pushing...
Stronger cyber guardrails needed as device-based payments gain ground
THE ENTRY of Google Pay and Apple Pay into the Philippine market will help boost e-commerce but also heightens the need for stronger guardrails...
Taxing plastic bags
By Marvin Tort
In August, the Senate revived the plastic bag tax discussion by introducing two new measures now pending in committee. Senate Bill No. 811 proposes...
Google, the sleeping giant in global AI race, now ‘fully awake’
SINCE the launch of ChatGPT three years ago, analysts and technologists — even a Google engineer and the company’s former chief executive officer —...
Japan’s gas power and lessons for the Philippines
By Bienvenido S. Oplas, Jr.
NAGOYA, Japan — I am in Japan’s fourth largest city by population size. Our route was Manila-Narita-Nagoya and our domestic flight from Narita took...