The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) and GCash are bringing National ID registration and digital financial services closer to communities, seeking to remove a key barrier keeping millions of Filipinos outside the formal financial system.

Concentrix Philippines is integrating learning, quality, analytics, governance, and artificial intelligence under a new Performance Engineering Team (PET), aiming to lift productivity, detect operational problems earlier, and improve workforce performance.

Security Bank marked its 75th anniversary by channeling employee business spirit into community good, with proceeds from the annual People's Fair Marketplace going directly to the Security Bank Foundation's Regalo Mo, Kinabukasan Ko Scholarship Program.

Poverty is not just an empty wallet. It can be a family scrambling to keep a child in school, relatives walking farther to fetch clean water, or a household wrestling with a stubborn internet signal while the rest of the world moves on.

The Management Association of the Philippines (MAP) has called for full transparency and accountability in the proposed 2027 national budget, warning that questionable spending practices could further erode public trust and investor confidence.

The Philippine Airlines (PAL) will upgrade its Manila–Melbourne services to daily round trips starting November 19, 2026, stepping up from five weekly flights just in time for the peak year-end travel season. The expansion also marks a milestone: 55 years of PAL flights to Melbourne since the route launched in 1971, cementing it as one of the flag carrier’s longest-running international destinations.

Philippine e-commerce apps posted double-digit growth in downloads in the first half of 2026 even as their reliance on paid customer acquisition declined sharply, suggesting stronger organic discovery in the country’s online shopping market.

The Philippines faces a difficult policy balancing act as elevated inflation, weak public investment, and growing pressure on service exports threaten to weigh on economic growth, according to the ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO).

The Philippines has officially attained upper-middle-income country (UMIC) status after nearly four decades as a lower-middle-income economy, surpassing the World Bank’s threshold with a gross national income per capita of US$4,850, exceeding the US$4,636 cutoff.