SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye On the eve of the New Year of the Water Tiger, Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) let out a veritable roar as it listed its P27-billion two-year bond at the Philippine Dealing and Exchange Corporation (PDEX). A visibly elated PDEX President and CEO Antonino Nakpil...
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye Tracking the surge in new COVID cases in the National Capital Region, Muntinlupa City reported on Jan. 14, the highest single day spike since the start of the pandemic. Muntinlupa logged 1,251 new daily confirmed cases. Barangay Putatan, where the city hall is...
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye Last week’s article on former SC Chief Justice Art Panganiban elicited quite a few queries about how CJ Art and other SC justices saved me from going to prison in 1999. Allow me to reprise the story, which earlier appeared in my latest book “Mira and Other...
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye I missed its actual showing on GTV last Dec. 5 but fortunately I received a few days later, as a Christmas gift, both an audio and a video recording of “Ageless Passion 3.” “Ageless Passion 3” is a musicale featuring the life and works of Artemio V. Panganiban,...
Speaking Out Ignacio R. Bunye Its official. By Jan 2, 2022, the strategic union of Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) and BPI Family Savings Bank (BFSB) will be in effect. Officials of the two entities are unanimous in saying that “this merger has the best interest of our customers and...
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye At the recently-concluded Pilipinas Conference 2021, Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala (JAZA), Chairman of the Ayala Group, could not over-emphasize the need for collective unity and commitment in addressing societal pain points toward national recovery. Beyond the COVID-19...
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye Good news from Muntinlupa City. The city continues to record a steady decline in the local COVID-19 active cases. From Oct. 1 to Nov. 18, the number of active cases dropped by 93 percent from 988 to 68. To date, there have been 27,554 confirmed cases in Muntinlupa...
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye When Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala (JAZA) stepped back in April, he wanted to make the transition as low key as possible. No fuzz, no celebration. He just sent an email to Ayala group employees that he was stepping down as Ayala Chief Executive Officer, a position he...
Speaking Out Ignacio R. Bunye In line with Ayala’s commitment to achieve net zero GHG by 2050, AC Energy (ACEN) and Ayala Land (ALI) have signed a power supply agreement for ACEN’s 120-MW solar plant in Alaminos, Laguna, to supply renewable energy that will help ALI’s demand up to 2050. ...
Speaking Out Ignacio R. Bunye Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) are not out of the woods yet. Despite the improved vaccination rate and relaxed quarantine restrictions, a lot of SMEs are still in dire need of assistance to help them recover their losses and to sustain their operations. ...
Speaking Out Ignacio R. Bunye Believing that all our efforts will be for naught if the environment we live in has already been damaged beyond repair, Ayala President and CEO Fernando Zobel de Ayala (FZA) , formally announced last week the conglomerate’s commitment to take the lead in...
Speaking Out Ignacio R. Bunye Social enterprises (SEs) are like rays of sunshine amid the pandemic gloom. As the global health crisis uncovered new challenges, SEs have remained undeterred in pursuing their advocacies to help the communities they serve not only to survive these challenging times,...
