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 Thousands of Philippine Coast Guard officers and staff now have access to Saludo sa Serbisyo, Ayala Corporation’s comprehensive and sustainable needs-based program for the community’s uniformed service personnel. Launched in 2018, Saludo sa Serbisyo also covers...
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye Eight Ayala companies were among the 85 publicly-listed companies feted by the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD) at its Golden Arrows Awards held last week at the Sheraton Manila Hotel. The Golden Arrows recognize Philippine companies with exemplary governance...
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye The proposed merger between Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) and Robinsons Bank Corporation (RBC) continued on track with its recent approval in a special BPI stockholders meeting held last week. BPI Chairman Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, Vice Chairman Cezar P....
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye Belated congratulations to the Ateneo Debate Society (Ateneo A), composed of David Africa and Toby Leung, for winning the World Universities Debating Championship (WUDC) 2023 in Madrid, Spain. This is a historic first for Ateneo since it started competing in the WUDC....
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye The key to the success and longevity of a bank is trust. Once more, Bank of the Philippine Islands established its trustworthiness with the expert and quick resolution of an incident which occurred on Jan. 4. BPI’s systems double-posted transactions that were made on...
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye For this New Year’s issue, I lend my space to readers to enable them to express their wishes and hopes for 2023. The comments are presented in no particular order and were only slightly edited for brevity. Much happiness in 2023. — Personal caregiver Jean Susi....
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye Dec. 19 was a red letter day in Muntinlupa City which marked its 105th anniversary as a municipality. On Dec. 19, 1917, Governor General Francis Burton Harrison signed the proclamation separating Muntinlupa from Taguig, and making the latter an independent...
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye Dec. 6 was a very memorable day for Oscar Ileto Violago (Oca to classmates and friends, OIV to business associates.) After 29 trying years, Oca’s vision for a new and abundant water source for Metro Manila finally became a reality. The day marked the inauguration of...
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...
