THE FOURTH QUARTER of 2019 saw local financial markets performing relatively sideways with positive factors at home such as the inflation slowdown and catch-up government spending partly cushioning the impact brought by developments abroad.

THE MEASURE TO SIMPLIFY the taxation of passive income, financial services and transactions was borne out of the need to be more competitive in attracting foreign capital and investments in order to finance infrastructure projects and promote inclusive growth through generation of more and higher quality jobs.

ONE doesn’t tend to think about where the modern conveniences of life come from. Among the things we take for granted is the dependence on electricity in day-to-day living.

IN LATE AUGUST, the state-owned United Coconut Planters Bank (UCPB) announced that it signed a partnership with government-run Home Development Mutual Fund or Pag-IBIG Fund to lend its digital platform in disbursing loans and benefits to about 14 million members.

LOCAL financial markets performed well for the most part in the third quarter, buoyed by positive developments at home amid a slew of uncertainties abroad.

AMID strong earnings results for banks and market expectations on lower borrowing costs, analysts are once again warming up to bank stocks.

IT HAS BEEN MORE THAN A DECADE since the last global financial crisis. The 2008 crisis had started in the US subprime mortgage market, which crept into financial markets and led failing banks to either be rescued by governments or be closed down. However, the Philippine banking system was relatively insulated with bank failures contained within the rural banking sector whose small assets relative to the total sector’s resources posed little to no systemic risk.

“Simple lang. Maasahan”

“THE MORE information [and] the more open the information is, then the more protection there is for both the borrower and the lender…”

By Marissa Mae M. Ramos Researcher ECONOMISTS expect financial markets in the second half to bounce back from the challenging first half amid anticipations of further...

ANALYSTS remain selective on bank stocks amid mixed earnings performance and the differing impacts of loosening monetary policy and ongoing trade tensions on their bottom lines.

With the emergence of the Internet in the 1990s and the improvement in broadband in the early 2000s, online banking has started becoming the norm.