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Harden-less Nets hammer Bucks for 2-0 series lead

KEVIN DURANT shot 12 of 18 from the field and posted his fourth 30-point game of the postseason. He also hit four 3-pointers, grabbed four rebounds and handed out six assists. — REUTERS

KEVIN Durant scored 32 points in three quarters and the Brooklyn Nets did not miss a beat without James Harden, cruising to a 125-86 rout of the Milwaukee Bucks on Monday in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference semifinals in New York.

The second-seeded Nets lead the best-of-seven series 2-0 ahead of Game 3 on Thursday in Milwaukee.

Brooklyn, which never trailed, led by as many as 49 points in the fourth quarter. The Nets led by double digits for the final 39:11.

In 33 minutes, Durant shot 12 of 18 from the field and posted his fourth 30-point game of the postseason. He also hit four 3-pointers, grabbed four rebounds and handed out six assists.

Durant finished his latest productive game by going around Giannis Antetokounmpo for a reverse layup with 4.8 seconds left in the third quarter to give Brooklyn a 95-65 lead.

Kyrie Irving added 22 points on 9-of-17 shooting and had six assists for the Nets, who shot 52.1 percent and set a franchise postseason record with 21 3-pointers. It marked the fourth time in their first seven postseason games the Nets shot at least 50 percent from the floor.

Antetokounmpo led the third-seeded Bucks with 18 points and 11 rebounds. He shot 8 of 15 from the floor and missed five of seven free-throw attempts. He is shooting 53.5 percent (23 of 43) from the foul line in the postseason.

Milwaukee’s Khris Middleton added 17 points but missed his first eight shots, finished 8 of 20 from the floor and committed five turnovers. Jrue Holiday was held to 13 points.

The Bucks shot 44 percent and misfired on 19 of 27 3-point tries after shooting 6 of 30 from behind the arc in Game 1.

Harden watched from the bench after being ruled out due to right hamstring tightness. He was injured 43 seconds into Brooklyn’s 115-107 win in the series opener on Saturday.

Without Harden, the Nets dominated early and cruised to their fifth double-digit win of the postseason.

Durant scored 21 as the Nets led by as many as 27 points before half time and took a 65-41 edge into the break. He made 7 of 10 shots prior to intermission, including a 3-pointer with two seconds left in the first quarter that put the Nets up 36-19 after the opening 12 minutes.

COACH OF THE YEAR
The New York Knicks’ Tom Thibodeau was announced as the 2020-21 NBA Coach of the Year on Monday.

It is the second such honor for Thibodeau, who also was named the league’s top coach during the 2010-11 season with the Chicago Bulls. He is the first coach to win the award in his first season with two separate franchises.

Phoenix Suns coach Monty Williams received two more first-place votes than Thibodeau (45-43) but lost 351-340 in total points. The 11-point margin was the smallest to separate first and second place since the points format started in 2002-03.

Utah Jazz coach Quin Snyder wound up in third place with 161 points and 10 first-place votes.

The Philadelphia 76ers’ Doc Rivers got two first-place votes and took fourth place with 24 points. The Atlanta Hawks’ Nate McMillan (12 points), the Brooklyn Nets’ Steve Nash (seven points) and the Denver Nuggets’ Michael Malone (five points) also appeared on ballots.

Coaches earned five points for every first-place vote, three points for every second-place vote and one point for every third-place vote.

Thibodeau led the Knicks to a 41-31 record, which tied for the fourth-best mark in the Eastern Conference. The Knicks reached the postseason for the first time since the 2012-13 campaign but were eliminated by the Atlanta Hawks in the first round.

The announcement made Thibodeau the third Knicks coach to win the award. He joined Red Holzman (1969-70) and Pat Riley (1992-93). — Reuters

Lakers stars LeBron James and Anthony Davis to skip Tokyo Olympics

US men’s basketball coach Gregg Popovich should not be counting on LeBron James and Anthony Davis for this summer’s Olympic team, according to a report on Monday that the Lakers stars will skip the Tokyo Games.

Citing a source close to both players, The Athletic reported that James and Davis made their decisions due to their injury-plagued seasons.

James played only 45 of 72 games this season because of ankle issues. Davis appeared in just 36 games due to a variety of injuries, including a calf strain and Achilles tendinosis. He was hampered in the playoff by a groin strain and a hyperextended knee.

With both players injured during one span, the Lakers tumbled from the upper echelon of Western Conference teams and had to win a play-in game to make the playoffs.

The Lakers, who had a short offseason after winning the NBA title in the “bubble” near Orlando last summer, were beaten in the first round in six games by the Phoenix Suns last week.

Davis played about 20 minutes before getting injured in Game 4, missed the fifth game, then played just five minutes in Game 6. In his three full games vs. the Suns, he averaged 27 points, 9.3 rebounds and three assists. He averaged 21.8 points, 7.9 rebounds and 3.1 assists in the regular season.

James played all six games against the Suns and averaged 23.3 points, eight assists and 7.2 rebounds in just over 37 minutes per game. In the regular season, he averaged 25 points, 7.8 assists and 7.7 rebounds.

The Athletic also reported that Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry is “50-50” regarding joining Team USA for the Olympics while Portland Trail Blazers guard Damian Lillard has “strong interest in playing.” — Reuters

NBA fines Sixers president of basketball operation Daryl Morey after tweet

THE NBA fined Daryl Morey, the Philadelphia 76ers’ president of basketball operations, $75,000 for violating the league’s anti-tampering rule on Monday.

The team was fined the same amount.

The league levied the fine after reviewing a Twitter post from Morey on June 3. Morey shared an Instagram post from Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry that complimented the play of his brother, Seth Curry, a Sixers’ guard. Morey added the comment “join ‘em.”

Stephen Curry, a two-time NBA Most Valuable Player and a three-time NBA champion, is due to become a free agent in 2022. In the 2020-21 season, at age 33, he led the league in scoring at 32 points and added 5.8 assists and a career high 5.5 rebounds per game.

On the same day Morey tweeted, he sought to clarify his comment with another post that read, “My goodness folks I am talking about the fact that we are all thrilled [Seth Curry] is here with the @sixers — nothing else!”

This is not the first time Morey’s tweets have gotten him into trouble.

The former general manager of the Houston Rockets, Morey was fined $50,000 for violating the anti-tampering rule in December after making reference to then-Rockets star James Harden before he was traded to the Brooklyn Nets.

He also stirred up controversy in October 2019 when his tweet about pro-democracy protestors in Hong Kong drew rebuke from the Chinese Basketball Association. That led multiple Chinese companies to suspend business with the NBA over Morey’s comment as well as the league’s support for Morey’s right to freedom of expression. — Reuters

It’s her time

Yuka Saso could have given up after an even-par third round found her surrendering the lead she took the day before. The United States Women’s Open was proving to be more exacting than she previously figured, with her penultimate 18 yielding four bogeys for her, including one on the same last hole she birdied in her first two forays. Her sputtering finish at the famed Lake Course of The Olympic Club in San Francisco, California, put her one back of the popular and surging Lexi Thompson heading into the final round.

Saso could also have given up after back-to-back double bogeys on the second and third holes off poor tee shots widened the lead Thompson had over her to five strokes, daunting under any circumstance, but especially so when fate seems to pile on and enjoins even the most determined to pack up. Instead, she regrouped and understood the most basic tenet of competition — and, indeed, of life: Success is a journey, not a destination, and the primordial consideration at any given moment is making the next step count.

As even casual weekend weedwhackers understand only too well, golf is a battle with self; the key to playing with purpose is knowing the only score that counts is one’s own. “Everyone here is a great player. If it’s their time, it’s their time. If it’s my time, it’s my time,” she said. And with her caddie reminding her of the need “to trust the process,” she saw fit to rely on the mechanics that enabled her to thrive on the Japan Tour. She debuted in June 2020 and placed fifth at the Earth Mondahmin Cup, and, a mere four months later, claimed consecutive victores at the NAC Karuizawa 72 and Nitori Ladies Golf Tournament.

Little wonder, then, that Saso trekked to the pride of the Bay Area with confidence. The US Golf Association’s predilection for testing those casting moist eyes on the Harton S. Semple Trophy suited her calm demeanor. She placed 13th at the 75th staging of the major event, with her stint at the Champions Golf Club in Houston, Texas, allowing her to both steel herself for the inevitable challenges and believe in her capacity to overcome them. And the rest, as they say, is history.

Considering the ebbs and flows in the final round, Saso could well have wound up short of her goal. Thompson appeared to have the win the bag if not for a stunning back-nine collapse. Runner-up Nasa Hataoka, whose rip-roaring charge of three birdies in four holes put the pressure on the provisional leader, seemed destined to triumph — until, that is, a seemingly straightforward birdie putt on the first playoff hole stopped a revolution short of finding the bottom of the cup. Meanwhile, she kept plodding on, kept pushing forward, kept trusting the process. And she was rewarded accordingly.

 

Anthony L. Cuaycong has been writing Courtside since BusinessWorld introduced a Sports section in 1994. He is a consultant on strategic planning, operations and Human Resources management, corporate communications, and business development.

Meralco energizes new COVID-19 quarantine facility in Manila

In its continuing support to the Government and Private Sector’s fight against COVID-19, Meralco energizes a new COVID-19 treatment facility located at the Quirino Grandstand, Independence Road, Ermita, Manila. The project involves the installation of ten (10) concrete poles, nine (9) spans of tree wires, three (3) 333-kVA distribution transformers, and metering facilities. This new treatment center is one of the many vital COVID-19 facilities in the Meralco franchise area that are given the highest priority in terms of providing a safe, adequate, and reliable supply of electricity, in line with the company’s thrust to assist the government during the pandemic. To date, more than 125 vital COVID-19 facilities have already been energized by Meralco which includes government offices, hospitals, testing laboratories, quarantine and vaccination centers, and vaccine storage facilities.

 

 

GCash sole PH e-wallet feted by The Asian Banker International Awards 2021

GCash has once again solidified its position as the no.1 mobile wallet app in the Philippines as it received two distinctions in the recent The Asian Banker’s Excellence in Retail Financial Services International Awards 2021 (TAB Awards).

This year, GCash is the only e-wallet app in the Philippines that was given accolades by the prestigious awards program.

The award-giving body recognized GCash for having the “Best Financial Inclusion Initiative/Application” for its Social Amelioration Program (Distribution), which was implemented in cooperation with the Philippine Government and the Department of Social Welfare and Development, during the pandemic. Likewise, the mobile wallet app was also awarded the “Best Digital Brand Campaign” for its innovative #FightCOVID19 program aimed at educating various stakeholders on health and safety measures, as well as providing the GCashforGood platform to aid underserved affected communities nationwide.

“I am truly proud of the entire GCash family and all the men and women behind this trailblazing brand! These awards are a fitting testament to the passion and dedication of all my colleagues as we all work tirelessly towards promoting financial inclusion for all,” said Martha Sazon, GCash President and Chief Executive Officer.

During the awarding ceremony, Winsley Bangit, Chief Customer Officer of GCash, received recognition during a live online event of The Asian Banker’s Excellence in Retail Financial Services International Awards 2021.

For the last two decades, The Asian Banker has been the industry-defining body in recognizing players that demonstrate exceptional excellence in retail financial services in the Asia Pacific, the Middle East, and Africa. It is one of the most prestigious and rigorous awards programs for consumer financial services in the world. This year marks its 20th anniversary. Despite the disruption of the COVID-19, the jury received over 490 submissions from more than 280 banks and non-bank retail financial services players in more than 24 markets across the three regions.

To know more about GCash, visit https://www.gcash.com/.

Marked by dedication, focus, and optimism

Grounded on a strong brand, Shang Properties, Inc. looks forward to a brighter future

Success in the Philippine property industry largely relies on a track record of constantly delivering projects as promised, even amid a challenging time like the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. For this reason, property development is anchored on the public’s trust.

This is what Shang Properties, Inc. (SPI) Executive Vice-President (EVP) Jose Juan Z. Jugo strongly affirms, noting that SPI has stood strong for more than three decades mainly because of valuing the trust of its clients by delivering projects as committed. Backed by this mindset, SPI is looking forward to rise above the pandemic’s impacts and gear up for the brighter future it sees coming.

“The company has been very focused on delivering what is committed,” Mr. Jugo said. “As an organization, we take that very seriously. When we start marketing and delivering projects, there’s no turning back.”

This commitment brought forth the existing and ongoing projects in SPI’s pipeline, covering retail, office, and residential fields in a concentrated yet impactful market.

Aside from its ‘jewel’, the Shangri-La Plaza — a luxury mall along Epifanio de los Santos Avenue in Mandaluyong City, — SPI has built its retail presence in Makati City through The Assembly Grounds, a pocket development that complements the developer’s larger residential development in the area, The Rise Makati.

With these two malls, Mr. Jugo shared, SPI has built its solid retail presence in a focused market.

“Unlike other developers, our retail presence is very focused,” he said. “While Shangri-La Plaza is in Mandaluyong, because of its location, size, and product offering, it captures the markets in different of geographies like Makati, Pasig, Quezon City, and San Juan. It’s quite centralized, and it’s a large retail play.”

Within the office sector, SPI has its premium-grade commercial building, The Enterprise Center along Ayala Avenue in Makati City. It serves as home to very notable addresses in the corporate world. Albeit the challenge the pandemic posed on many businesses, the office tower emerged as a strong asset for SPI with its prime location at the center of the country’s business district.

“While we have seen some tenants closed down because of the pandemic, majority of our tenants at The Enterprise Center have chosen to stay because of the address that we offer and because of the services and facilities the building gives to all of its tenants,” Mr. Jugo said.

In its larger residential line, SPI has three ongoing projects, which the EVP considers as successors to SPI’s long line of successful projects.

These projects cater to different market segments. The Rise Makati, a 63-storey tower in the northern part of Makati with its over 3,000 residences, caters to a broader market segment. The 50-storey Shang Residences at Wack Wack (SRWW) in Mandaluyong caters to the upscale market. Aurelia Residences in Bonifacio Global City, Taguig, a joint venture with Robinsons Land Corporation, caters to the luxury market with its intricately designed 285 bespoke residences.

Along with its commitment to meet the public’s trust, SPI gives total focus on delivering curated spaces for exemplary living, which drives the excellent designs of its projects.

“Rather than going for scale and widespread presence, we prefer to remain focused — to spend more time planning and designing our projects with a lot of curation and thoughtful designs behind them,” Mr. Jugo said. “That, to me, makes this organization quite unique.”

Being a more focused developer, the EVP added, gives them the advantage to carefully create and control individual projects, and this has worked for the Shang properties brand all these years.

With its commitment to deliver and focus on quality, SPI looks beyond the current situation with a bright outlook both for their company as well as the country’s economy.

“It’s really best for organizations to plan for the future now rather than wait for the pandemic to pass and then scramble at that time. We’re taking that opportunity now while we anticipate the market’s recovery that lies ahead,” Mr. Jugo said.

“As a company, we are looking beyond things and are planning for the future,” he continued. “We do have projects pipelined. We do have growth plans in place. We are looking at new geographies to be present in, and we are preparing for the organization to be able to grow.”

The EVP shared that SPI plans to add another project to its office portfolio that will expand the developer’s commercial leasing presence. Moreover, the developer plans to launch two residential projects soon, intended to address unique segments.

“We see opportunities to grow not only right now, but also in other areas later on. We look at opportunities to acquire more properties for development in the future,” Mr. Jugo added.

SPI looks up to the brand it has developed for many years, he continued, and this makes them confident that their future projects will be just as successful as, if not more than, the landmark spaces they have created.

Apple’s new ‘private relay’ feature will not be available in China

Apple Inc on Monday said a new “private relay” feature designed to obscure a user’s web browsing behavior from internet service providers and advertisers will not be available in China for regulatory reasons.

The feature was one of a number of privacy protections Apple announced at its annual software developer conference on Monday, the latest in a years-long effort by the company to cut down on the tracking of its users by advertisers and other third parties.

Apple’s decision to withhold the feature in China is the latest in a string of compromises the company has made on privacy in a country that accounts for nearly 15% of its revenue.

In 2018, Apple moved the digital keys used to lock Chinese users’ iCloud data, allowing authorities to work through domestic courts to gain access to the information.

China’s ruling Communist Party maintains a vast surveillance system to keep a close eye on how citizens use the country’s heavily controlled internet. Under President Xi Jinping, the space for dissent in China has narrowed, while censorship has expanded.

Apple’s “private relay” feature first sends web traffic to a server maintained by Apple, where it is stripped of a piece of information called an IP address. From there, Apple sends the traffic to a second server maintained by a third-party operator who assigns the user a temporary IP address and sends the traffic onward to its destination website.

The use of an outside party in the second hop of the relay system is intentional, Apple said, to prevent even Apple from knowing both the user’s identity and what website the user is visiting.

Apple said it also will not offer “private relay” in Belarus, Colombia, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkmenistan, Uganda and the Philippines.

Apple has not yet disclosed which outside partners it will use in the system but said it plans to name them in the future. The feature likely will not become available to the public until later this year.

IP addresses can be used to track users in a variety of ways, including as a key ingredient in “fingerprinting,” a practice in which advertisers string together disparate data to deduce a user’s identity. Both Apple and Alphabet Inc’s Google prohibit this.

Combined with Apple’s previous steps, the “private relay” feature “will effectively render IP addresses useless as a fingerprinting mechanism,” Charles Farina, head of innovation at digital marketing firm Adswerve, told Reuters.

It will also prevent advertisers from using IP addresses to pinpoint a person’s location, he said. – Reuters

U.S. Republicans vow to oppose Yellen’s G7 tax deal, casting doubt on its future

WASHINGTON – Several top U.S. Senate Republicans on Monday rejected Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s G7 deal to impose a global minimum corporate tax and allow more countries to tax big multinational firms, raising questions about the U.S. ability to implement a broader global agreement.

The opposition from Republicans may push President Joe Biden to attempt to use budget procedures to pass the initiatives with only Democratic votes.

It left lawyers and tax experts in Washington wondering whether it could get done without crafting a new international treaty, which requires approval by a two-thirds majority in the evenly split 100-member Senate.

“It’s wrong for the United States,” Republican Senator John Barrasso said of the tax deal struck on Saturday by finance ministers from the G7 wealthy democracies.

“I think it’s going to be anti-competitive, anti-U.S., harmful for us as we try to continue to grow the economy and certainly at a time when we’re coming out of a pandemic,” Barrasso, who chairs the Senate Republican Conference, told reporters at the U.S. Capitol.

In the landmark agreement, G7 finance ministers agreed to pursue a global minimum tax rate of at least 15% and to allow market countries to tax up to 20% of the excess profits – above a 10% margin – of around 100 large, high-profit companies.

Yellen said the “significant, unprecedented commitment” would end what she called a race to the bottom on global taxation.

In exchange, G7 countries agreed to end digital services taxes, but the timing for that is dependent on the new rules being implemented.

The deal could pave the way for broader buy-in by G20 countries and some 140 economies participating in international negotiations over how to tax large technology firms such as Alphabet Inc’s Google, Facebook Inc, Amazon.com Inc and Apple Inc. All are expected to be included in the new, broader mechanism, which is targeted for a final international agreement in October.

Republican Senator Pat Toomey said the deal would drain tax revenues away from the U.S. Treasury to other countries, adding that he hoped some Democrats would be unwilling “to subject the American economy to this kind of misery.”

“There will be no Republican support for this, and they’ll have to do this on a party-line vote. That needs to fail,” Toomey told Fox Business Network.

 

TREATY OR NOT

Daniel Bunn, an international tax expert at the Tax Foundation, a right-leaning think tank in Washington, said he believed that establishing new taxing rights on 100 multinational firms would require a new tax treaty.

The U.S. Constitution gives the president the right to make international treaties “if two-thirds of Senators present concur.” U.S. participation in some international treaties has been hampered by domestic partisan divides, in which a president approves the deals but they are not ratified by Congress.

Manal Corwin, head of KPMG’s Washington National Tax Practice and a former U.S. Treasury official, said Yellen’s G7 deal could be done through legislation that overrides existing bilateral tax treaties – using a simple majority as part of budget reconciliation procedures.

With Vice President Kamala Harris as the tiebreaking vote, Democrats control 51 votes in the Senate, but cannot afford to lose any Democratic votes.

Senator Ron Wyden, asked how much can be done with the budget reconciliation procedures and what would require a super-majority vote, said: “Those are all questions that lawyers are now immersed in.”

Wyden, who chairs the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee, told reporters that deterring the use of tax-haven countries and ensuring minimum levels of corporate taxation were “in the long-term interest of American workers.” – Reuters

Airline chiefs urge end to UK-U.S. travel restrictions

LONDON/WASHINGTON – The heads of all passenger airlines flying between Britain and the United States called on Monday for both countries to lift trans-Atlantic travel restrictions put in place to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

High vaccination rates in both countries meant travel could restart safely after more than a year of restrictions, said the CEOs of American Airlines, IAG unit British Airways, Delta Air Lines, United Airlines and JetBlue Airways Corp in a rare joint virtual press conference.

The push came days ahead of this week’s meetings between U.S. President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson at the G7 meeting of advanced economies this week in Cornwall, southwest England.

U.S. and UK airline officials told Reuters they do not expect Washington to lift restrictions until around July 4 at the earliest as the administration aims to get more Americans vaccinated.

British Airways chief executive Sean Doyle said lifting restrictions is essential.

“I think there’s much more at stake here than a holiday, it’s about trade, it’s about visiting friends and relatives, and it’s about getting back and doing business and re-employing people,” Doyle said.

Since March 2020, the United States has barred nearly all non-U.S. citizens who have been in the United Kingdom within the previous 14 days from entering the country. Most U.S. travellers visiting the United Kingdom must quarantine for 10 days upon arrival.

Reopening is more crucial for Britain-based airlines British Airways and Virgin Atlantic, which are not benefiting from a rebounding domestic market like their U.S. peers.

JetBlue CEO Robin Hayes said “the human cost is just I think devastating” for people who have been vaccinated but “haven’t seen their kids, grandkids for over a year now.”

The vast majority of nations do not face the entry restrictions and were added by the United States on an ad hoc basis. Only the 26 Schengen nations in Europe without border controls, Ireland, China, India, South Africa, Iran and Brazil face the restrictions.

American Airlines Chief Executive Doug Parker said the list of countries that face those U.S. restrictions “doesn’t make much sense anymore … vaccinated travellers are safe to travel.”

United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby said the airline “could add pretty significant capacity” within four weeks if restrictions were lifted. “We are in the peak travel season for travel between the US and UK, and every single day that goes by is a day lost for the recovery,” he said. – Reuters

U.S. report concluded COVID-19 may have leaked from Wuhan lab – WSJ

PIXABAY

A report on the origins of COVID-19 by a U.S. government national laboratory concluded that the hypothesis of a virus leak from a Chinese lab in Wuhan is plausible and deserves further investigation, the Wall Street Journal said on Monday, citing people familiar with the classified document.

The study was prepared in May 2020 by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California and was referred to by the State Department when it conducted an inquiry into the pandemic’s origins during the final months of the Trump administration, the WSJ report said.

Lawrence Livermore’s assessment drew on a genomic analysis of the COVID-19 virus, the Journal said. Lawrence Livermore declined to comment on the Wall Street Journal report.

President Joe Biden said last month he had ordered aides to find answers to the origin of the virus.

U.S. intelligence agencies are considering two likely scenarios – that the virus resulted from a laboratory accident or that it emerged from human contact with an infected animal – but they have not come to a conclusion, Biden said.

A still-classified U.S. intelligence report circulated during former President Donald Trump’s administration alleged that three researchers at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology became so ill in November 2019 that they sought hospital care, U.S. government sources have said.

U.S. officials have accused China of not being transparent about the virus’ origins, a charge Beijing has denied.

Separately, Mike Ryan, a top World Health Organization official said on Monday the WHO cannot compel China to divulge more data on COVID-19’s origins, while adding it will propose studies needed to take understanding of where the virus emerged to the “next level”.

Earlier this month, U.S. infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci called on China to release the medical records of nine people whose ailments might provide vital clues into whether COVID-19 first emerged as the result of a lab leak. – Reuters

Experience better mobile banking with the New ‘PNB Digital’ App

In line with its strengthened digital banking thrust, the Philippine National Bank (PSE: PNB) has recently launched a new and improved mobile banking platform – the PNB Digital App.

Providing a secure and easy way of banking anytime, anywhere, the enhanced mobile banking app offers clients a better experience through a fresh look, intuitive design, and quick access to frequent banking transactions with a customizable dashboard to boot.

PNB President and CEO Wick Veloso said that the new PNB Digital App answers the need for better digital solutions in light of the increasing customer preference for online banking amidst today’s health and safety concerns and quarantine restrictions.

“Consumer expectations have changed especially now in the ‘new normal’. As a bank that is truly masasandalan (one can lean on), we worked hard to come up with the new PNB Digital App to address our clients’ growing need for a more reliable and user-friendly online banking solution,” Veloso said.

Clients don’t have to leave the safety of their home because they can now conveniently register their accounts in the app using their PNB account number, debit card, or credit card number. Upon successful registration, they can login securely and conveniently via Face or Touch ID. They can use the app to view their balance and transaction history; transfer funds to another PNB account via QR code; send money to local banks through InstaPay; pay their bills for utilities, credit card, and other partner merchants; as well as locate PNB branches nationwide and overseas.

PNB customers can now try and experience PNB’s new Digital App by downloading the app for free via the App Store or Google Play.

Staying true to its brand promise of being the bank that people can lean on, PNB has been on constant lookout for innovative ways to bring relevant banking solutions to its customers, whenever and wherever they need them.

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