RL Commercial REIT, Inc. (RCR), the real estate investment trust of Robinsons Land Corporation, successfully listed its shares at the Philippine Stock Exchange with its share price holding steady amid a weaker market. 32437 RCR makes history as the Philippines’ largest publicly-listed REIT with a...
Filinvest REIT Corp., (FILREIT) successfully listed at the Philippine Stock Exchange, closing the day one fluctuation higher at P7.02 from its initial public offering price of P7.00 despite the drop in the local market. “After months of great uncertainty, we finally arrived in our destination:...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has launched the PhiliFintech Innovation Office (PIO) to pave the way for more innovations in the fintech industry to further promote financial inclusion while also protecting investors and other financial consumers. The PIO is under the SEC’s...
Since it’s maiden public offering 30 years ago, the market capitalization of real estate giant Ayala Land Inc. has ballooned to over P500 billion from P42 billion, making ALI among the largest companies in the Philippine Stock Exchange Index. The Philippine Stock Exchange, Inc. (PSE) and ALI have...
Wala Lang Neither Wall Street nor PSE can beat the Manila art auction record. I watched on Facebook live the other week’s Leon Gallery auction and record after record toppled. At prices in the millions (P7.5 million per basket of Anita Magsaysay-Ho’s painting, Women with Baskets, Fish and...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has received special citations from the Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA) for its efforts toward improving the ease of doing business in the country. In the Ease of Doing Business Summit held last week, the ARTA recognized the Commission as a “Doing...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has received special citations from the Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA) for its efforts toward improving the ease of doing business in the country. In the Ease of Doing Business Summit held last week, the ARTA recognized the Commission as a “Doing...
The Philippine Stock Exchange has invited top executives of publicly-listed firms to talk about their successful initial public offering (IPO) journey and share with potential listing applicants the benefits their companies enjoy from going public. The PSE said these executives will be part of a...
The Securities and Exchange Commission of the Philippines has been admitted as a new signatory to the ASEAN Collective Investment Schemes (CIS) Framework. This is after it signed a supplemental Memorandum of Understanding with the Securities Commission Malaysia (SC), the Monetary...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued rules giving minority shareholders in publicly listed companies (PLC) more power by allowing them to call special stockholders’ meetings. SEC Chairperson Emilio B. Aquino (Photo credit: https://www.sec.gov.ph/commissioners/) “The newly...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has launched the Electronic Simplified Processing of Application for Registration of Company (eSPARC) for faster and easier registration of corporations. In a statement, the SEC said that, starting April 19, it will accept and process under eSPARC all...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it is migrating to a new company registration portal called the Electronic Simplified Processing of Application for Registration of Company (eSPARC) by April 19. In a statement, the SEC said the new portal will provide the public with a...