SPEAKING OUT During a recent meeting with banking colleagues, our conversation somehow led to a discussion of the state of our capital market. It was observed that the Philippines lags behind its neighbors principally, Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore and this has negatively affected our...
SPEAKING OUT Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) recently launched a totally new and future-ready mobile app with innovative features and services that go beyond convenient transactions and help more Filipinos achieve financial well-being. The new BPI app is part of the bank’s aggressive digital...
SPEAKING OUT During the Holy Week, I thought of deviating from my usual column topics and I decided to write about money matters during the time of our Lord Jesus Christ. My personal objective was to gain a deeper understanding of the historical and cultural context in which Jesus lived and...
SPEAKING OUT With the oncoming El Niño season , which is expected to adversely affect water supply both for drinking and irrigation, President Bongbong Marcos’ recent announcement could not have come at a better time. PBBM approved the creation of a Water Resource Management Office which will...
SPEAKING OUT I was most pleasantly surprised last Friday when I walked into the Trade Expo initiated by the Trade and Vocational Education Department of the Muntinlupa Business High School (MBHS). Held in cooperation with Waltermart Mall, Sucat, Muntinlupa City, the one-day activity was held to...
SPEAKING OUT Pag-IBIG Fund has tapped BPI’s wealth management arm, BPI Asset Management and Trust Corporation (now known as BPI Wealth), to manage an additional P1 billion investment mandate, bringing its total managed fund to ₱2 billion. This comes after a rigorous four-month bidding process....
SPEAKING OUT In last week’s article, we started to report on the gains achieved by Muntinlupa City Mayor Rufino Rozzano Biazon on the K Agenda: Kalusugan, Karunungan and Kabuhayan. We resume the report to cover the other programs, namely, Katarungan, Kapayapaan/Kaayusan, Kalikasan, Kaunlaran and...
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye Banking and shopping just got easier, thanks to a pioneering tie-up between Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) and Lazada, one of the largest e-commerce operators in Southeast Asia. Last month, BPI president and CEO Jose Teodoro “TG” Limcaoco and Lazada...
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) through its social development arm—BPI Foundation—continues to boost the Philippine social enterprise ecosystem by helping empower social enterprises (SEs) through its program, BPI Sinag. Social enterprises are viable businesses...
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye Recently, I had a “scary” experience of becoming temporarily but totally deaf and unable to make myself heard. I was about to chair a zoom meeting when I noticed that I could not hear the participants. Neither could they hear me. Fortunately, the problem was only...
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye Ayala Corporation President and CEO Cezar “Bong” Consing attributed to the reopening of the economy and the gradually improving consumer and business confidence the conglomerate’s resurgent growth both topline and core net income. “Our largest publicly-listed...
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye Traditionally, the Ayala conglomerate has focused on real estate, financial services, telecommunications, utilities, power and transport, manufacturing and automotive. But in 2015, Ayala decided to venture into health. It was a decision which would prove serendipitous...
