Banking & Insurance
BDO profit rise to P63.1B in 9 months
BDO Unibank Inc. (BDO), the country’s largest lender by assets, reported a net income of P63.1 billion in the first nine months of 2025,...
Core lending, fee drive PNB net income higher
Philippine National Bank (PSE: PNB) posted a consolidated net income of P18.5 billion for the first nine months of the year, a 23 percent increase from the year-earlier period, driven by growth in core lending, investment securities, and fee-based income.
Employee, retiree groups express full support for GSIS leadership
The major groups representing government workers and retirees — the Philippine Government Employees Association (PGEA), the Philippine Alliance of Retired Educators (PARE), and the GSIS Retirees Association, Inc. (GRAI) — have declared their full support for GSIS president and general manager Wick Veloso.
Young Filipinos prioritize family protection but overlook memorial planning — study
Many younger Filipinos want to protect their families from life’s uncertainties, but few are preparing for one of its most certain events: death.
Regulators strengthen coordination with revised bank exam agreement
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) and the Philippine Deposit Insurance Corp. (PDIC) have signed a revised memorandum of agreement (MOA) on bank examination to improve coordination in assessing the country’s banking institutions.
