Domestic principal payments continued to dominate national government debt settlements in the first half of the year, driving total debt servicing up by three-fifths to ₱1.23 trillion. According to the latest Bureau of the Treasury data, total debt payments from January to June surged 59.7...
State-run Philippine Deposit Insurance Corp. (PDIC) is intensifying efforts to recover ₱107 billion remitted to the national treasury to rebuild its deposit reserve cushion even as executives maintain operational targets remain intact despite the reduced capital base. PDIC President and Chief...
The national government’s outstanding debt breached the ₱19-trillion mark for the first time, surpassing its full-year fiscal target six months ahead of schedule following a sharp acceleration in local and foreign borrowing. The Bureau of the Treasury reported on Thursday, July 30, that total...
The Marcos administration ramped up borrowing in June, with a late second-quarter debt push bringing total gross borrowings in the first half of the year to ₱1.82 trillion.
According to the Bureau of the Treasury, the six-month total represents a 14.5 percent increase from the ₱1.59...
The national government’s fiscal deficit reached ₱786.8 billion in the first half of the year, widening from the ₱765.5 billion shortfall recorded in the same period in 2025 as state spending outpaced revenue growth. Despite the year-on-year increase, the Bureau of the Treasury (BTr) noted in...
More idle government assets valued at roughly ₱30 billion are expected to be disposed of through privatization as the government successfully completed the ₱1-billion sale of one floor of Atrium of Makati, bringing first-half revenues close to the full-year figure for 2025. On Thursday, July...
Domestic lenders demanded higher lending rates from the government through the sale of long-dated debt papers, but the government rejected the bids after deeming the rates too expensive while demand remained subdued. During the latest treasury bond (T-bond) auction on Tuesday, July 14, the Bureau...
Government subsidies to state-run corporations more than doubled in the first five months of the year, driven by the court-mandated release of funds to the national health insurance program. According to the latest data from the Bureau of the Treasury, total financial support to government-owned...
The Marcos administration expects five more state-run companies to join the elite group of top-tier dividend contributors next year, accelerating its push to squeeze non-tax revenues from government entities to fund infrastructure without introducing new taxes. Finance Secretary Frederick D. Go...
Domestic principal payments continued to dominate the national government’s (NG) debt settlements through the first five months of 2026, raising total debt servicing by more than three-fifths to ₱1.15 trillion. The latest Bureau of the Treasury (BTr) data showed that the NG’s total debt...
The national government’s outstanding debt climbed to a fresh record of ₱18.55 trillion in the first five months of the year, driven by the aggressive domestic borrowing campaign that outpaced repayments and tested the country’s fiscal limits amid global market volatility. According to the...
After the borrowing overshoot in the first quarter, the Marcos administration continued stepping on the brakes in the months that followed until May, bringing gross debt to ₱1.24 trillion in the first five months of 2026, lower than the ₱1.33 trillion recorded in the same period last year....
