Ministers from the APEC’s 21 member economies have agreed to further advance economic integration in the region focusing on trade and investment, digital economy and technology, structural reform, and economic and technical cooperation. This was highlighted in a joint statement following the...
The APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) Philippines has urged the 21-member countries of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation to accelerate cooperation leveraging digital technologies to overcome further decline as economies continue to battle the impact of the pandemic. In a recent virtual ABAC...
To comply with the reserve requirement, banks have released P14.9 billion more loans to micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) for the month of September alone, based on Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) data. MB file photo. This brings the average daily balance of bank loans to MSMEs to P120.9...