Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) scholars can start receiving their scholarship allowances digitally after the agency renewed its partnership with top mobile wallet Gcash. (Photo from TESDA / MANILA BULLETIN) TESDA and G-Xchange, Inc. (GXI) announced the nationwide...
73078 Homegrown fintech startup NextPay expands its digital payment solutions with Email Money, allowing users to transfer cash to any bank or e-wallet via email with no need for the recipient’s account details. By removing the need to collect and manage recipient’s bank details, Email Money...
The Paranaque City government is pushing for online transaction for business permit renewal amid the surge in coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases. Atty. Melanie Soriano-Malaya, chief of the Business Permit and Licensing Office (BPLO), said to avoid the risk of contracting COVID-19, they are...
Electronic wallets are now a multi- trillion peso business for players PayMaya and GCash, thanks to the pandemic which forced Filipinos to go cashless. All of a sudden, in the last two years, digital payments and e-commerce boomed as previously unbanked Filipinos became e-wallet users for...
Real-time interbank money transfer service, InstaPay, recorded its highest single-day volume of 1.88 million transactions on December 15, 2021. Their total value was also an all-time high of P12.93 billion. According to InstaPay operator BancNet, this volume is 54-percent higher than the volume of...
HOW TO KEEP SAFE Mallgoers practicing social distancing In a consumer-driven country such as the Philippines, Christmas shopping is quite a chore. This is especially true in the hyperactive and saturated metro. Despite having hundreds of malls in Manila, these shopping centers are filled to the...
Debt payments by the Philippine government were nearing the P1 trillion mark in the first nine-months of the year due to higher interest and principal settlements. Data from the Bureau of the Treasury showed that the national government's debt servicing reached P963.86 billion in January to...
The Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA) served a show-cause order against two officials of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) early this week. Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA) and Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) logos In a statement, ARTA said it served the...
The Duterte administration will go after Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corp. if it has indeed cheated the government of the taxes it should pay. President Rodrigo Duterte (Malacañang photo) Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque gave this guarantee during a virtual press conference Friday, Oct. 29,...
Mounting complaints on salary delays have been raised by contact tracers who were hired by the government to help identify and locate those who have close contacts with coronavirus disease (COVID-19)-infected persons. But Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Undersecretary...
The Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA) has commended the local government of Pasig City for its latest innovative service that allows residents to pay their annual real property tax for 2022 using the Pasig City Online Payment Facility. 40540 ARTA signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Pasig...
The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) on Monday, Oct. 18, issued a show cause order against two consortiums operating along the EDSA Busway for deploying insufficient numbers of buses on the route and for not paying the salary of their drivers and conductors under the...
