Overseas Filipinos remitted $2.477 billion via banks in February, it’s 5.1 percent higher compared to same time last year of $2.358 billion, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said Thursday, (April 15). Compared to January, cash remittances was lower by 4.84 percent or from $2.603 billion....
In Madrid, Spain lies a 1.5-hectare farm managed and owned by Filipinos. Ghie, as she prefers to be called, 50, and her husband Ramon, 65, manage businesses in different industries: real estate, retail, and agriculture. The couple invested in these sectors both in the Philippines and Spain. ...
Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) from the Middle East are the first who are expected to scout for new investment opportunities in the housing sector this year, according to an online home buying platform. In a statement, online portal Ohmyhome said that OFWs who have long yearned to buy...
Cash remittances sent by overseas Filipinos via the banking system declined to $19.285 billion as of end-August, 2.6 percent lower than same period last year of $19.808 billion, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) reported Thursday. For the month of August only, bank-channeled remittances were...
How does a wedding in Georgia—and being stranded there—sound? Dubai-based Filipino couple Mike and Glorie Plaza are living their love story of kilig proportions. Six years dating, the couple’s relationship blossomed after being set up by common friends until the wedding proposal in front of a...
Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III has urged the raffle winners of the small investor-targeted Premyo bonds to consider using their cash rewards to reinvest in government debt securities or start their own small businesses and help create jobs. Finance Secretary Carlos G....
