Bayad Center launches mobile app
Payment solutions provider Bayad Center has launched on Tuesday, March 12, a mobile app to complement its more than 12,000 payment locations nationwide and...
BMI sees investment slowdown as tax reform creates ‘uncertainty’
Investments could slow over the next few months amid uncertainties over corporate taxes, BMI Research said, noting that the second tax reform package being...
Metro Manila water rates to drop on April 1
Water rates in areas covered by Metro Manila's two water concessionaires will be cut starting on April 1 after the state agency on water...
Malaysia’s CIMB wants to enter Philippine market via FINTQ
A Malaysian lender has tapped FINTQnologies Corp. (FINTQ) to penetrate the Philippine market as a digital bank.
In a statement on Tuesday, FINTQ, the financial...
BOI approves P86-billion worth of solar projects
The Board of Investments (BOI) recently approved the registration of eight solar projects of Solar Philippines Commercial Rooftop Projects, Inc. with a total value...
SteelAsia to spend P80 billion in next five years
SteelAsia Manufacturing Corp. is spending P80 billion in the next five years to hike its capacity production of billets and rebars and eventually roll...
Suspected Islamist militant who guarded US hostages nabbed
Philippine police have arrested a suspected Islamist militant who allegedly helped guard a group of tourists kidnapped in 2001 including an American missionary who...
First Gen unit, Meralco ink power supply contract
Lopez-led First Gen Corp. said its unit had entered into a power supply contract with distribution utility Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) for the sale...
Oil’s near $62 as US jobs fan optimism, rig drop eases fears
Signs of strength in the U.S. economy and data showing American explorers curtailed drilling activity is helping oil hold gains after its biggest jump...
Trade war to US inflation to be in focus for emerging markets
Emerging-market investors will be gauging the effect of a possible trade war after President Donald Trump revealed his tariff plans. They will also be...
China seen slowing spending on Belt and Road energy projects
China’s thirst for overseas energy investments is slaking, at least by one tally.
The nation’s financing for so-called Belt and Road Initiative energy projects dropped...
Rediscount loans surge in February
Philippine banks resumed availing of rediscount loans from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) in February after it stood untapped a month ago, the...