Globe’s recently acquired professional and managed services arm, Cascadeo, won Managed Services Provider (MSP) of the Year at the Channel Partner Insight Innovation Awards 2020. “Whether it's in the US or in the Philippines, Cascadeo sets the benchmark that today's best services are powered...
New bank applicants that are proposing to operate business models that looked like digital banks will be approved as digital banks, according to a Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) memo released on Tuesday clarifying the new circular on the establishment of digital banks. BSP Deputy Governor Chuchi...
FYA! This award-winning illustrator is in a league of his own in the world of digital art It has been a while since we featured an artist whose canvas isn’t your usual. Digital art, after all, is a very valid form of art. And while there are many who dabble in this contemporary medium, very few...
While CEOs here and abroad are mouthing the buzzword “digitalization”, the head of the country’s largest commercial bank BDO Unibank thinks the concept of digital as a little bit “overplayed.” At the Management of the Year “A Year of COVID – Gloom or Boom?” panel discussion by...
Elite Model Look is once again on the lookout for the world's next supermodel . And one of the luckiest models currently vying for a chance in winning a global management contract with Elite is Filipina-Chinese looker Reins Mika. The global competition that has produced world-renown models like...
With increased online transactions due to the holidays, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) is reminding banks to remain vigilant against cyber attacks, specifically phishing or the fraudulent acquisition of sensitive data or information. Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Governor Benjamin E....
Over three in ten people who go online in Asia Pacific (APAC) use anonymous accounts - social media profiles without their real names, photos, and personally identifiable information (PII). Half do so to exercise their freedom of speech more but the other half take advantage of the cover for secret...
To hasten its digital transformation, Globe Telecom Inc. has moved the bulk of its technology infrastructure to Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. By leveraging AWS, Globe is reducing the time required to provision new...
The Philippines has no choice. The only way to recover from the pandemic is to go digital. So says Ayala Corp. Chairman and CEO Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, popularly known as JAZA. Ayala Corporation Chairman and CEO Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala (Ayala Corp / MANILA BULLETIN) “We realized...
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) is proposing the creation of an Open Finance Oversight Committee (OFOC), an industry-led self-governing body, as part of the country’s open finance framework. BSP Governor Benjamin E. Diokno ( Bloomberg file photo) Based on the draft circular on open finance,...
Aboitiz-led Union Bank of the Philippines is accelerating its digital banking business with a “better normal” strategy to attract new clients while they fasttrack development of online-only products and utilize blockchain solutions for real-time services. UnionBank, which has styled itself...
Asia Pacific (APAC) is fertile land for social media, housing more than half of the world's total users and center of Facebook’s growth. East Asia logs the most number of virtual network users at over 1 billion as of 2020, with Southeast Asia and South Asia both trailing behind with...
