INDUSTRY GROUPS on Tuesday pushed back against a proposal to impose an excise tax on single-use plastics, saying the suggested levy is unfair, could make goods expensive and lead to job losses.
THE NEW GENERATION of business leaders must be technology-savvy, values-driven, and possess integrity to help steer the country toward progress and prepare for future challenges, according to top ...
FINTECH ALLIANCE PH is planning to launch a data-sharing initiative next year among industry players that focuses on monitoring borrowing behavior and possible fraudulent activity in real time as ...
The 4% growth of GDP in the third quarter of the current year has dampened the mood of investors. This is way below the government’s target of 5.5% to 6.5% for the whole of 2025. Most analysts ...
THE BANGKO SENTRAL ng Pilipinas (BSP) has released draft rules that require participants of the Peso Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) payment system to adopt alternative mechanisms to ensure ...
THE 28th edition of the Singapore Writers Festival (SWF), which ran from Nov. 7 to 16, made a stab at the future with its special focus on sci-fi, fantasy, and speculative writing, featuring marquee ...
A Fabergé Imperial Winter Egg, commissioned by Tsar Nicholas II as an Easter gift to his mother, heads to auction this week where it could set a record for the third time with a price estimate of more ...
In October last year, on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the Dialogue Relations between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and South Korea, the regional bloc and the Republic ...
JPMORGAN Chase & Co. has ceased the global operations of its investment analytics arm Aumni that it acquired in 2023, which will affect some of its employees in the Philippines. “JPMorgan regularly ...
SMALL and medium enterprises (SME) in the Philippines are entering 2026 with guarded optimism as slowing consumption, elevated costs and lingering uncertainty cloud their outlook, according to a ...
THE Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said the Department of Justice (DoJ) has indicted two officers of Cebu-based Fergus, Inc. for illegally soliciting investments from the public. In a ...
CEBU-BASED fuel retailer Top Line Business Development Corp. (Top Line) has secured board approval to raise capital through the reclassification of 800 million common shares into preferred shares. At ...