Investors pressed for an increase in Philippine benchmark interest rate for a long-term loan. This was manifested at the Treasury's bond auction on Tuesday, Dec. 7 where government rejected bids for the 10-year notes as investors sought higher returns for buying those securities. Total tenders...
The Bureau of the Treasury has scaled down its domestic borrowing program for December due to strong demand for the ongoing retail bond offering and fewer working days. National Treasurer Rosalia V. de Leon said on Thursday, Nov. 25, that the national government plans to borrow only P70 billion...
The government is finalizing its sustainable finance framework for the issuance of the Philippines’ first-ever sovereign green bonds, the Department of Finance (DOF) said. Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III said on Friday, Nov. 19, that the establishment of the framework is a key step in...
Speculation about a possible policy rate adjustment and higher full-year inflation pushed up the yield for long-term Philippine debt papers. At a Bureau of the Treasury auction on Tuesday, Nov. 9, the interest rate for the 10-year Treasury bond went up to 5.130 percent from 4.468 percent last...
Benchmark interest rates move sideways By CHINO S. LEYCO The short-term benchmark interest rates move sideways. At Monday's auction of Treasury bills on Oct. 25, the bellwether 91-day T-bill rate, which banks use in pricing their loans, slightly rose to 1.119 percent from 1.113 percent previously....
Leading oil firm Petron Corporation is scheduling the redemption of its Series 2B preferred shares by November 3 this year at a redemption price of P1,000.00 per share. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE), the company noted that it already “commenced delivery of its notice of...
The government on Friday, Oct. 8, listed its first onshore retail dollar bonds (RDBs) in the Philippine Dealing and Exchange Corp. (PDEX), bringing closer to fulfilling its twin goals of deepening the domestic capital markets and broadening financial inclusion. During the listing, Finance Secretary...
Lingering concerns over high inflation pushed up the interest rate for long-term Philippine debt papers. At a Bureau of the Treasury auction on Tuesday, Oct. 5, the yield for the seven-year Treasury bond went up to 4.207 percent from 3.75 percent last August when the IOU was last sold. Investors...
Small investors who were looking for a low-risk, accessible and higher-yielding investment swamped the government’s first onshore issue of retail dollar bonds, the Bureau of the Treasury announced. Based on a report submitted by National Treasurer Rosalia V. de Leon to Finance Secretary Carlos G....
The Bureau of the Treasury has launched the government’s first onshore issue of dollar bonds catering to small investors who are looking for a low-risk, accessible and higher-yielding investment. At the price-setting auction on Wednesday, Sept. 15, the Bureau of Treasury raised an initial $866.2...
The Bureau of the Treasury will team up with the country’s leading banks to let small investors buy at easy terms retail dollar bonds (RDBs) that the government is planning to issue this year to fulfill part of its domestic financing requirements. National Treasurer Rosalia de Leon said several...
The country’s big banks have so far issued $2.78 billion worth of green, social and sustainability bonds, broken down as $1 billion sustainability bonds and P84.5 billion ($1.78 billion) peso-denominated green bonds. These green bonds were issued by so-called “first mover” banks since 2017,...
