Ayala Land Hospitality is pressing ahead with the long-awaited opening of Mandarin Oriental Makati this year, choosing momentum over hesitation as tourist arrivals in 2025 continue to fall short of expectations.
Ayala Corp., the diversified investment holding company of the Ayala Group, posted a 36 percent jump in net income to up P46.3 billion in the first nine months of 2025, boosted by one-off gains from the revaluation of AC Ventures following Mitsubishi’s acquisition of a 50 percent stake.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has urged the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) to strengthen its legal, operational, and cybersecurity foundations as it advances plans to explore a wholesale central bank digital currency (wCBDC), highlighting the growing complexity of building next-generation financial infrastructure.
The Philippines' blue swimming crab industry is facing a major threat to one of its most important export markets, prompting exporters to call for urgent government intervention before a looming US import restriction takes effect.
The grass courts of Birmingham can be slippery places, full of awkward bounces and shortened rallies that punish hesitation. A year ago, Alex Eala found little comfort there, exiting early and leaving with more questions than answers.
The country’s gross international reserves (GIR) reached US$104 billion as at end-May this year, according to preliminary figures from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP). This reflects a slight drop from the previous month, caused mainly by the national government withdrawing funds from its foreign currency deposits with the central bank to pay off foreign debts, lower value of the BSP’s gold holdings due to falling global gold prices, and net foreign exchange transactions carried out by the central bank.