The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it has adopted taxonomy guidelines on sustainable finance as part of efforts to promote environmentally and socially sustainable economic activities. The Commission issued on Feb. 23 its SEC Memorandum Circular No. 5, Series of 2024,...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has signed data sharing agreements (DSAs) with nine law enforcement agencies and competent authorities, granting them access to beneficial ownership information of corporations registered with the Commission. The SEC said this will boost its efforts to...
Senator Francis “Chiz” Escudero on Friday, March 1 urged the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) to regulate their commissioners’ expenses during their visits to state colleges and universities (SUCs) and out-of-town meetings. Escudero made the call amid criticisms hurled at CHED...
President Marcos has moved Senior Deputy Executive Secretary (ES) Hubert Guevara from the Office of the President (OP) to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as one of its commissioners. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Commissioner Hubert Guevara (MPC Pool/File photo) The...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian said he is hopeful that the joint task force between the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) and the Philippine Competition Commission (PCC) will addess the perennial problems hounding the country’s power sector. “I am confident that the task force would work to...
The Department of Energy (DOE) will be offering 8,200 megawatts of renewable energy (RE) capacities in the fourth round of green energy auction (GEA-4) to be administered by the latter part of this year. In her remarks during an Energy Transition forum convened by Climate Smart Ventures (CSV),...
Sen. Imee Marcos is baffled by the Commission on Elections' (Comelec) recent change of heart after its pronouncement that it is in favor of the idea of conducting the Charter-change plebiscite during the 2025 midterm elections. "Nalito ako sa kanila eh kasi nung una sabi di kakayanin dalawa na yung...
The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) called on international education leaders to address the global issues that prevent marginalized groups from accessing quality higher education. (Chairman J. Prospero de Vera III together with higher education professionals during 2024 EURIE Summit on Feb....
Senator Juan Edgardo “Sonny” Angara on Wednesday, February 28 welcomed the current moves in amending the 1987 Constitution which is gearing towards the holding of the Charter change (Cha-cha) plebiscite alongside the May 2025 midterm elections. In an interview, Angara, who chairs the Senate...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued a cease and desist order against entities involved in the unauthorized use of Ayala Corporation’s name to illegally solicit investments from the public. In an order dated Feb. 22, the Commission En Banc directed Ayala Corporation Group Inc.,...
Philippine officials and key industry players will be on a one-week Nuclear Energy Mission to Canada this March to scrutinize the policy frameworks and regulatory regimes of this developed market - primarily on how it had set the bar high on its ‘cradle-to-grave’ precept of nuclear energy...
Power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) has beefed up its supply portfolio with additional 400-megawatt baseload power supply procurement from the Limay thermal power plant of SMC Global Power Holdings of the San Miguel group. The tariff for the new interim power supply agreement...
