Capital market stakeholders are seeking to tap the vast and growing mass affluent segment of young tech-savvy Filipino investors, as it presents a huge opportunity for wealth creation in the country. To enable this segment to help enlarge the country’s economic pie, a video library project was...
We cannot do the same things and achieve different results. Today, the Philippine scenario is a “perfect crime” scene for government contracts. Right from the start, the development councils hardly matter. It’s the influential politicians and their executive agency cohorts who determine the...
The Philippine business community is in synch with other sectors of Filipino society in condemning those responsible for the trillion-peso flood control projects scandal. Many industry groups, including the Financial Executives Institute of the Philippines, have expressed their outrage and disgust...
It is a sorry sight to see simple problems addressed by irrational and complex solutions that take an inordinate amount of time to fix, cost a tremendous sum, and still fail to function as intended. Consider a beautiful, single-level light structure with a floor area of roughly 300 square meters. A...
For years now, countries around the world have been grappling with the problems of climate change. I’ve always thought that not enough people were truly paying attention to its negative effects. It was a personal belief of mine that people talked about it as if it were just another school...
When I graduated from the Asian Institute of Management in the 1980s, I received a call that would quietly alter the trajectory of my professional life. Dr. Mari-Jo Panganiban Ruiz, then chair of the Management Engineering Department at the Ateneo de Manila University, asked if I could take over a...
How influential are influencers? With the rise of social media and its mixed demographics, the younger generation still dominates the audience and supporters of influencers. The influencer sphere is not only growing but expanding exponentially. Recently, companies have been using influencers to...
Officially designated as Republic Act (RA) No. 12234, the Konektadong Pinoy Act automatically lapsed into law last week after no presidential action was taken on it within 30 days after Congress transmitted the bicameral bill to Malacañang. Also known as the Open Access in Data Transmission Act,...
As the Philippines’ only United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) Global Geopark and a Regenerative Island, Bohol is committed to “responsible tourism.” This commitment is rooted in the understanding that Unesco can revoke these honors for environmental...
In a sunlit room at the RCBC Plaza’s Case Room on Aug. 29, 2025, a mix of banking executives, retail strategists, and technology leaders will gather, not for another networking lunch, but to mark the launch of a program that could reshape how customer data drives business in the Philippines....
When Nickel Asia Corp. (NAC) President Martin Antonio “Dennis” Zamora suggested a visit to TBEA, a solar energy company in China, I knew it would be an interesting learning trip. In early August, the NAC Board and executives flew to Beijing for committee meetings at the Shangri-La. The next...
Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Francis Ed. Lim urged the country’s leading financial executives to demonstrate ethical leadership, as the Philippine capital market has lagged behind its regional counterparts due to a lack of integrity. “Integrity is the invisible currency of our...
