Robinsons Land Corp. said Thursday its board approved the infusion of 11 shopping malls and two office buildings to its real estate investment trust, RL Commercial REIT Inc., that will nearly double the gross leasable area of listed RCR to 827,808 square meters.
GoTyme Bank, the digital banking unit of the Gokongwei group, has launched a dollar-based time deposit product that it said is most accessible in the market.
SM Prime Holdings, Inc. said it will start on Friday a week-long offer of peso-denominated fixed rate bonds, with multiple maturities, to raise as much as P25 billion for one of the property development units of the Sy Group.
The NEDA Board, chaired by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., has approved the reduction of tariff on rice to 15 percent from 35 percent to substantially lower the cost of the staple and ease its impact on inflation, whose elevated level has kept the central bank from cutting interest rates to help spur greater economic activity.
The Philippine Amusements and Gaming Corp., the government-owned corporation in charge of licensing games of chance, appears to have made a good bet in allowing the expansion of electronic games, which mainly includes eCasinos and sports betting.
One year after taking over operations of Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA), New NAIA Infrastructure Corp. (NNIC) is set to roll out a new facial recognition system powered by Collins Aerospace, allowing passengers to check in, drop bags, clear security, and board using only their face.
Unilever Philippines has renewed its partnership with First Gen Corp., the country’s leading renewable energy (RE) producer, to power seven of its production and distribution sites with approximately 10 megawatts of geothermal energy.
The Marcos Jr. administration has expanded its flagship affordable rice initiative to the transport sector, with over 57,000 public transport workers now set to benefit from P20 per kilo rice under the “Benteng Bigas, Meron Na!” program.
Manulife Investment Management is advising investors to adopt a barbell investment strategy in response to the unexpected uptick in the country's inflation rate in August. The strategy, aimed at navigating an increasingly uncertain interest rate environment, involves allocating capital to short-term bonds to benefit from immediate policy rate adjustments, while selectively adding long-term bond exposure if inflation expectations remain anchored.