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Bank of the Philippine Islands, the banking unit of the Ayala Group, kept its earnings largely intact in the first half of 2026 as solid loan growth and stronger fee income offset a sharp rise in provisions for potential credit losses.

The Ayala Group is poised to ramp up investments in digital infrastructure and healthcare after President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. held separate meetings with key Singapore-based partners during his working visit, reinforcing investor confidence in two sectors seen as vital to the country's long-term growth.

The Philippine information technology and business process management (IT-BPM) industry sees little immediate risk from two proposed US bills designed to bring outsourced jobs back to America, saying both measures have stalled in Congress and mirror earlier anti-offshoring proposals that never became law.

Filipino women and young workers may soon find artificial intelligence acting less like a helpful office assistant and more like an ambitious new colleague eager to take over routine tasks.