The International Finance Corp. (IFC), the private investment arm of the World Bank, has appointed Riccardo Puliti as its new Regional Vice President for Asia and the Pacific.
The government has allotted more than P151 billion to sustain the major social protection service programs of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) sees inflation remaining elevated between 7.5 and 8.3 percent this month, well above the two to four percent target, after hitting a 14-year high of 8.1 percent in December.
Electronic fund transfers via the PESONet and InstaPay nearly touched P10 trillion last year, jumping by 37.3 percent to hit P9.94 trillion from P7.24 trillion in 2021.
Southeast Asia’s rapidly growing digital economy is increasingly exploited as a staging ground for global cyberattacks, according to Mimecast’s 2025 Global Threat Intelligence Report.
iProov has claimed the distinction as the first and only company to meet the biometric verification requirements of the newly released NIST Special Publication 800-63-4 Digital Identity Guidelines, which set the U.S. federal standard for secure digital identity.
McDonald’s Philippines has been named Employer of the Year by the People Management Association of the Philippines (PMAP), recognizing the company’s outstanding people management and purpose-driven practices.
PLDT Enterprise has joined forces with global mobile industry body GSMA and key regulators—including the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), National Privacy Commission (NPC), and National Telecommunications Commission (NTC)—to launch SmartSafe, the country’s first telco-enabled fraud management API suite globally certified by GSMA.