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Business & Capital
Coverage of capital movement, market structure shifts, and business dynamics shaping the Philippine economy. Where money flows, who controls it, and what it means for the players in the room.
Ube export supply is surging in global demand while Philippine production falls and the agriculture budget shrinks. Vietnam is quietly filling the gap.
LandBank MSME lending expands through a new PCCI partnership, connecting chamber members to the LIFTING program’s three-tier credit facility.
SEA private equity is concentrating into fewer, larger deals across the region, and the Philippine mid-market is the tier getting sorted out, not just slowed.
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Mica Tan is pitching solar panels and e-bikes to unpaid investors while a bank auctions her foreclosed Pasig home. The creditor queue tells a different story.
The corporate InstaPay limit is now ₱500,000 at PNB. Here is the clearing infrastructure behind it and what it means for business payments.
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The Panhua Sarangani steel plant goes live in June with 70% of output bound for export. The government calls it industrial policy. The numbers say otherwise.
The CXAP rebrand and IBPAP roadmap revision signal the same thing: BPO AI impact is reshaping who holds margin and who loses contracts.
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The PLDT solar bundle pairs broadband with residential solar financing. Here is what the lock-in structure means for subscribers and competitors.
The fuel prices lifestyle impact is now visible in how urban Filipinos travel, dine, and spend. Here’s what the numbers and behavior signals say.
Grab, Green GSM, and Xpress are restructuring around the Philippine EV fleet. The next mobility battleground is who controls the platform layer.
The Mica Tan estafa case crossed into PD 1689 territory. Here is what the non-bailable filing signals for the private placement market.
wo US operators are entering the Philippine satellite internet market under new rules that already removed the franchise barrier. Here is what shifts.
The URC sugar division dragged Q1 earnings, exposing a contradiction in the local sugar floor price campaign that producer groups have been pushing.
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BPI Visa Direct brings real-time outbound transfers into the bank app, squeezing specialist remittance providers and digital banks competing on speed.
The BIR Registration Seal looks like a privacy upgrade. The QR code underneath converts platforms into the enforcement filter for online tax compliance.
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The Philippine sugar supply outlook for MY 2026-27 collides with closed borders and floor price advocacy. Industrial users absorb the gap.
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