Youn Yuh-jung made history recently, becoming the first Korean actor ever to win an Academy Award. Among those happy for her win is actress Maui Taylor. Youn and Maui worked together prior in the 2012 thriller "The Taste of Money." Maui recalled Youn as "intimidating at first." Eventually...
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) is planning on putting up an electronic or e-money protection fund in case the bank or non-bank holding the e-money has liquidity issues. The BSP is currently studying the e-money fund protection scheme and is expected to soon release findings and...
The local banking industry implemented a new system of charging fees for ATMs which started yesterday, April 7, 2021. Currently, there are close to 22,000 ATMs nationwide that are used by over 77 million cardholders. These ATMs are interconnected so cardholders of a bank can transact at ATMs of...
Bella ciao goes anyeong ! Netflix Korea has finally announced the cast we’re set to expect on their newest project, the K-drama adaptation of “ La Casa de Papel .” The Korean original series is based on the Spanish series most commonly known as “Money Heist,” which has gained a lot of...
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has been asked to consider the creation of a disputes settlement body for cryptocurrency (or crypto) use despite the absence of real policy that cover crypto or digital money such as bitcoin in the country. BSP director Melchor Plabasan for technology risk and...
Angelica Panganiban Angelica Panganiban's upcoming flick "Love or Money" got her portraying a role of a sugar baby, which is why she was asked about her take and some words of advice for those who do it in real life. In a recent "Love or Money" online presscon, Angelica shared: "Ang...
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) registered $97.92-million of net foreign portfolio investments inflows in January, reversing December 2020’s $523.86 million net outflows. The latest "hot money" net inflows also reversed the $486.10 million net outflows in January 2020. The BSP said...
The reorganization of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’ (BSP) currency and digital money sector will ensure the two payments system will continue to smoothly co-exist until the country is a completely cashless society, according to BSP officials. “My own forecast is that the use of old money...
Advice on how to mix marriage and money Valentine’s Day is commonly celebrated as a day of love. It escapes us that this day is meant to celebrate the life of St. Valentine . He was a Christian bishop who was killed in 270 AD. He lived in Central Italy and was responsible for secretly solemnizing...
Julia Montes In her own simple way, Julia Montes showed her support to rumored boyfriend, actor Coco Martin in a series of Instagram story updates. Julia uploaded a screenshot of the official teaser for the movie "Love or Money" with the caption: "Soon March 12." For more than a year now, Julia has...
The global virus outbreak impacted on the country’s foreign portfolio investment or hot money which was a net outflow of $4.24 billion in 2020, unsurprisingly bigger than the net outflows in 2019 of $1.9 billion, as investors prefer to be liquid during the pandemic. The Bangko Sentral ng...
Makeup artist, microblading guru, and now i'Milky milk tea shop owner Barbi Chan recently shared a photo of two P1,000 bills. In her Facebook post, she asked her friends to figure out which of the two bills that she posted is fake. "We got scammed again with a fake P1,000 bill. Guys, be careful...
