Security Bank Wealth gathered clients in Manila and Davao for its 2026 Midyear Events to advance a unified approach to wealth creation, protection, and succession. Titled “Building Resilient Wealth: An Integrated Approach to Income, Growth, Protection, and Legacy Planning,” the program brought together experts in investments, tax, legal, trust, and insurance to address the growing interconnectedness of financial decisions.

GCash has received three honors at the 2026 Philippine Quill Awards for campaigns that used digital engagement to support environmental initiatives and raise public awareness of online scams.

S&P Global Ratings assigned Digiplus Interactive Corp. a ‘B+’ long-term issuer credit rating with a stable outlook, saying the company’s strong position in Philippine online gaming should support its business. At the same time, regulatory uncertainty and expansion plans remain key risks.

Samsung Electro-Mechanics Philippines (SEMPHIL) is preparing two additional manufacturing investments in Laguna, adding to its previously announced USD1-billion expansion as the electronics industry responds to rising demand for components used in automotive systems, artificial intelligence and high-performance computing.

Subsidiaries of ACEN Corp., the listed renewable energy arm of the Ayala Group, have voluntarily relinquished two solar energy operating contracts in Quezon and Zambales, citing land acquisition and site access constraints that affected the projects’ development.

Aboitiz Power Corporation has secured 15-year baseload power supply agreements with the Luzon and Visayas Electric Cooperatives Aggregation (LVECA). Through Therma Luzon (222.5 MW to 19 Luzon co-ops) and Therma Visayas (48.2 MW to 10 Visayas co-ops), it shares in the total 565.5 MW awarded via NEA-supported joint competitive selection process (CSP). Aggregation replaces separate biddings, boosting co-ops’ market leverage and supply stability. Covers key provinces across both islands. For AboitizPower, this follows its 2025 LECA deal, expanding strategic footprint. Long-term terms mitigate disruption risks, strengthening co-ops’ operations and service reliability for households.

A solar panel that works underwater sounds like the sort of thing a fish might invent after getting tired of waiting for Wi-Fi. But researchers have now shown that the idea is more than a science-fiction prop.

ASEAN economic ministers are set to advance regional initiatives on energy security and semiconductors as they meet from September 19 to 22 for the ASEAN Economic Ministers Meetings and Related Meetings.

Ayala Land Inc. is turning to seawater desalination to strengthen water security at Lio Estate in El Nido, Palawan, as the tourism and lifestyle destination prepares for further residential, commercial and hospitality development.

Federal Land Inc. is bringing the Japanese principle of Kaizen, or continuous improvement, into its Philippine residential business as a long-term partnership with Japanese real estate and lifestyle companies moves from one project to a broader development strategy.

Ayala Land Inc.’s 290-hectare Cresendo estate in Tarlac is moving closer to becoming a full-scale industrial and urban center, with most industrial lots leased and major road, school, and commercial projects advancing alongside factory development.

Philippine industrial property players remain bullish on expansion, with 84 percent planning to increase their footprint over the next three years despite economic uncertainty, rising construction costs, and high operating expenses.

The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) has officially launched eGovAI, bringing artificial intelligence capabilities into the eGovPH Super App as the government moves faster to advance digitalization, streamline procedures, and upgrade public service delivery.

Cosma Institute is promoting a more personalized approach to healthy aging, calling for a shift in aesthetic medicine away from conventional “anti-aging” treatments and toward strategies that account for how an individual’s entire face changes over time.

Cebu Pacific is cutting processing times across legal, engineering and project management functions as its artificial intelligence initiative with Thinking Machines Data Science and OpenAI delivers measurable productivity gains across the airline.

Global biometric identity verification leader iProov has launched the Human Approval and Presence Specification (HAPS), an open, experimental procedural framework designed to clearly distinguish when a real human has explicitly authorized an action before an AI agent carries it out.

Filipinos have never really needed an invitation to love basketball. Give us a hoop, a ball, and approximately four square meters of concrete and we will figure out the rest. There is no requirement for proper flooring, air-conditioning, seating, parking, or even a complete understanding of the rules. Someone will keep score. Someone will call a phantom foul. Someone will bend the rules to ridiculous proportions in plain sight. So when the National Basketball Association brought basketball to the Philippines once again, nobody complained. After all, Filipinos have been quite willing to make room for basketball for decades. We simply cleared a little more space.

When the US Federal Reserve, the world’s most influential central bank, moves interest rates, Manila can feel the ripple, even 8,500 miles away. The effects do not arrive all at once, and they do not affect everyone in the same way. But eventually, they can show up in the mortgage, car loan, credit card bill, and even the grocery budget.

There are two kinds of Filipino motorists: those looking for a parking space and those who have already found one and are determined not to tell you where it is. Parking has become one of the more demanding sports in modern Philippine life. It requires patience, spatial awareness, quick reflexes, and, occasionally, the ability to stare at another motorist for several seconds without saying anything that could get you into trouble.

A Constitution is not a calculator. Yet when constitutional questions become uncomfortable, there is always a temptation to reach for one.