Tag: FMR

United Laboratories, Ayala Corp. and Metropolitan Bank & Trust Co. emerged as the highest-ranked Philippine employers in TIME’s Asia-Pacific’s Best Employers 2027 list, with all three making the regional top 50 in a ranking of 500 companies.

The Department of Agriculture (DA) is scrambling to correct coordinate errors in eight farm-to-market road (FMR) projects that could cost them funding, while insisting the disputed entries were part of the executive branch’s original 2027 budget proposal and not congressional insertions.

The Philippines is pursuing a regional insurance mechanism that would build multi-year disaster coverage into infrastructure projects financed by development partners, potentially reducing the government’s exposure to mounting reconstruction costs after typhoons, floods and other calamities.

Fintech lender Skyro is strengthening its credit evaluation capabilities through access to a wider pool of borrower information, as it expands beyond purchase financing into broader consumer financial services.