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The Lark Your Way to Success webinar series officially comes to a close with the announcement of the businesses who were chosen as mentees for Lark’s New Normal Business Council and Mentorship Program.

Cebuana Lhuillier Rural Bank, the banking arm of the Microfinancial Services giant, Cebuana Lhuillier and UnionPay International (UPI) have teamed up to launch the Cebuana Lhuillier 24K card – a new Debit Card designed to empower unbanked and underbanked consumers in the Philippines  to afford financial mobility for their day to day lives. As the first Debit Card that caters to the financially underserved market in the Philippines, the Cebuana Lhuillier 24K Card makes it easy and convenient for users to accumulate savings, withdraw cash and conduct digital payment locally and overseas via UnionPay’s network of over 52 million merchant outlets and 2.9 million ATMs located around the world. 

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the Philippine government’s digital transformation, with PayMaya leading the charge in enabling national agencies and local government units (LGUs) to accept all kinds of cashless payments and disburse financial aid anytime, anywhere.   

2020 has been a year full of challenges, with the world still reeling from the effects of the COVID-19 economically. In the Philippines, consumers have adjusted to the new normal by adopting, among others, fintech services to make their financial lifestyles more convenient and themselves safe against the pandemic.

Samsung recently announced the appointment of Sangho Jo as President and CEO of Southeast Asia and Oceania.

Million Dollar Round (MDRT) — a global association for financial services professionals — is broadening its support and reach with a new kind of association, the MDRT Academy.

A new year, a new start. Following the challenges of 2020, J&T Express Philippines wants to kick off 2021 on a high note with its much-anticipated Unli-Saya Promo that will run from January 1 to 31 nationwide. 

Jessa Macaraig has always had the penchant to start businesses that click. She did not allow the months under enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) dampen her entrepreneurial spirit. She and her husband Marvin came up with not only a line of soap products but other beauty products as well relying on technology and on-trend beautifying innovations and solutions to get through the pandemic.

More Filipino business owners and casual sellers have readily embraced digital payments as a key component of doing business under the New Normal, propelled by ready business-in-a-box solutions from digital financial services leader PayMaya.  

In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic when all types of businesses were reeling from its fallout, it was feared that only the giant corporations might survive. Today, less than a year later, the prognosis looks to be changing.

Data security is a growing concern among enterprise worldwide. Add the new realities brought about by remote working and you can fairly guess how complex and worrying the problem of data security has become.

The Information Security Officers Group (ISOG) was organized by a team of current and now retired Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) from different financial institutions.  Its members initially consisted of CISOs and IT security professionals that come primarily from Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Supervised Financial Institutions, referred to as BSFIs. The organization’s main thrust is the formation of a new culture of Information Security that will have a far-reaching impact upon their respective institutions and the whole Philippine landscape.  In order to cover the entire archipelago, ISOG has opened its membership to other non-BSFI institutions, thus, welcoming the rest of the end-user information security practitioners of the country into its fold.

During the recently-concluded GITEX Technology Week 2020 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Avaya received several accolades at the Future Enterprise Awards.

2020 has proven itself to be a year unlike any other. Amidst this challenging year, leading digital services provider, PLDT continues to provide meaningful connections this Christmas with the return of Holideals – PLDT Home’s biggest holiday sale! 

Following the boom of e-commerce and the heightened demand for courier services especially during the hectic holiday season, J&T Express Philippines is continuing their commitment to uplift the Filipino as the fastest-growing and farthest-reaching logistics company by officially partnering with the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA).

RUSH, a 917Ventures, Inc. loyalty and e-commerce solutions provider, has launched a partnership with Unilever through a digital rewards program called U-COIN. U-COIN is a web-based platform that provides consumers with a more rewarding shopping experience through incentives for customers when they buy Unilever products. Customers can now earn points through engaging with any of Unilever’s channels, be it offline or online, and even through participation in brand activities. Additionally, customers can visit https://www.U-Coin.com.ph/ to  monitor their earnings and redeem amazing rewards from the catalog. 

The Christmas season holds a deeper meaning for every family. With all the challenges that a lot of us faced this year, finding a reason to still celebrate, connect and reconnect with others, has never been so important. This is why cultivating optimism, whenever and wherever it may be, by further supporting each other, has made this Christmas season a more meaningful one. 

ATFX recently held the first online trading competition in Southeast Asia (SEA) participated in by more than 100 traders from the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Taiwan, Korea, Cambodia, and Myanmar.