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IFC extends P700-M loan for SMEs

By Ted P. Torres | December 12, 2015 - 9:00am

The International Finance Corp. (IFC) will provide a seven-year loan of up to P700 million to support projects of micro, small,...

Business

CARD MRI releases P62 M in disaster aid

By Ted P. Torres | August 26, 2014 - 12:00am

The Center for Agriculture and Rural Development Inc. (CARD MRI) has paid P61.5-million assistance in relation affecting 153,672 clients to the damage caused by Typhoon Glenda, under its CARD MRI Disaster and Relief...

Banking

CARD joins Women’s World Banking confab

January 21, 2014 - 12:00am

CARD Bank Inc. recently took part as one of the panelists in the global conference initiated by Women’s World Banking (WWB) and hosted by Microfund for Women/Jordan (MfW) under the patronage of Her Majesty...

Banking

BDO starts P5-B LTNCD offer

By Donnabelle L. Gatdula | August 23, 2013 - 12:00am

BDO Unibank Inc., the main banking unit of the SM Group of Companies, has started offering P5 billion worth of seven-year long-term negotiable certificates of time deposit (LTNCD).

Business

HGC expands guaranty business via RBs, MFIs

August 25, 2012 - 12:00am

State agency Home Guaranty Corp. (HGC) has approved the guidelines for the implementation of a guaranty program for microfinance housing loans.

Business

BSP approves opening of 122 bank branches in Q2

By Lawrence Agcaoili | September 23, 2011 - 12:00am

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has given universal, commercial, thrift, and rural banks the greenlight to open and reopen a total of 122 branches, other banking offices, and microbanking offices all over the...

Business

BAP Credit Bureau taps MFIs

By Ted P. Torres | June 28, 2011 - 12:00am

After practically saturating the country’s banking system and a number of non-banking financial institutions, the BAP Credit Bureau Inc. (BAP-CB) has successfully penetrated the critical microfinance sect...

Banking

GM Bank of Luzon raising capital, eyeing 10 new branches in 2011

By TPT | March 8, 2011 - 12:00am

GM Bank of Luzon Inc., the newly consolidated rural bank based in Nueva Ecija, is still in the expansion mode.

Banking

SB Corp urges full implementation of penalties in mSME lending

By TPT | July 27, 2010 - 12:00am

The Small Business Corp. (SB Corp.) is asking the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) to fully enforce the Magna Carta for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (mSME) or Republic Act (RA) 6977, particularly the issue...

Banking

Questionable rulings

By A LAW EACH DAY (KEEPS TROUBLE AWAY) | By Jose C. Sison | April 23, 2010 - 12:00am

The Supreme Court’s (SC) final ruling that appointments of SC Justices particularly the SC Chief Justice (CJ) are not covered by the Constitutional ban on midnight appointments is expected. But somehow the...

Opinion