EastWest Bank gives clients until July 31 to claim new EMV cards

EAST WEST Banking Corp.’s (EastWest Bank) clients only have until next week to switch their magnetic strip cards to microchip-enabled ones, with the lender...

Vanishing current account buffer raises peso risk

THE OUTLOOK for the Philippine peso -- Asia’s worst-performing currency -- just keeps getting grimmer. May’s trade shortfall was the biggest in data going back...

Fed signals confidence

WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged on Wednesday and said it expected to start winding down its massive holdings of bonds...

Kapit sa Patalim: Trafficking in the Land of the Free

Kapit sa Patalim Trafficking in the Land of the Free   Words by Santiago J. Arnaiz Art by Mags OcampoEleonor Ramos couldn’t sleep at all that night. The sound of...