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                    [Title] => Microinsurance aggresively targeting low-income group
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The National Credit Council (NCC) said it is optimistic more Filipinos in the lower income bracket will get insurance protection with the aggressive growth and introduction of microinsurance.

[DatePublished] => 2011-10-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097672 [AuthorName] => Ted P. Torres [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 352993 [Title] => DBP allocates P1B for wholesale microfinance lending [Summary] => The Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) is stepping up its assistance to the microfinance sector with the approval of its micro-agri product by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) as a microfinance loan.

Initial fund is P1 billion basically preferred for the agriculture sector including for enterprise development, housing, and agribusiness. The facility will be demand-driven at market rates.
[DatePublished] => 2006-08-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Banking [SectionUrl] => banking [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 264418 [Title] => NCC abolition to free P8.1B for direct credit [Summary] => The Arroyo administration is reviving its plan to abolish the National Credit Council (NCC) to free up P8.1 billion in direct credit programs that could be given to borrowers at government-subsidized rates.

Following the uproar over the proposed lifting of Executive Order 138, Cabinet sources said the government is looking into other credit programs that could be used to provide subsidized credit to small borrowers.
[DatePublished] => 2004-09-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096655 [AuthorName] => Des Ferriols [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 250316 [Title] => $40-M ADB loan sought to finance SME projects [Summary] => The Small Business Guarantee and Finance Corp. (SB Corp.) is planning to tap the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for a $40- million loan to finance the projects of small and medium enterprises (SMEs).

Of the $40 million loan, some $25 million will be used for wholesale lending to banks and onlending to domestic SME borrowers while the $15 million will be provided to TIDCORP’s (PHILEXIM) onlending to SME exporters.
[DatePublished] => 2004-05-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096364 [AuthorName] => Donnabelle L. Gatdula [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 245590 [Title] => BSP okays uniform rules for micro-finance projects [Summary] => The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has approved the uniform performance standard for micro-finance projects, aligning non-government organizations (NGOs) with the standards used on banks and quasi-banks. [DatePublished] => 2004-04-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096655 [AuthorName] => Des Ferriols [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 226538 [Title] => BSP may seek foreign funding for study on creation of centralized credit info bureau [Summary] => The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) is planning to conduct a foreign-funded study on the requirements for the proposed creation of a centralized credit information bureau.

The centralized credit information bureau will be mandated to create a negative and positive list of all small and medium enterprise (SME) borrowers, microfinance borrowers, credit card borrowers and other consumer loan users.
[DatePublished] => 2003-11-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096655 [AuthorName] => Des Ferriols [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 193197 [Title] => BSP starts microfinance roadshow in Cebu City [Summary] => The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) will launch the microfinance regional advocacy program in Cebu City on Jan. 31.

This will be the first of a series of information seminars that will be held in the strategic regions of the country to promote the development of sustainable microfinance. The end goal of this endeavor is to catalyze the development of sustainable microfinance institutions in the country to be able to reach a larger number of entrepreneurial poor.
[DatePublished] => 2003-01-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Banking [SectionUrl] => banking [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 180083 [Title] => Abolition of NCC seen to free P8-B for subsidized lending [Summary] => The Arroyo administration is planning to abolish the National Credit Council (NCC) to free up P8.1 billion in direct credit programs that could be lent out to borrowers at government-subisidized rates.

Sources privy to the administration’s streamlining efforts revealed that after the uproar over the proposed lifting of Executive Order 138, the government looked into other credit programs that could be used to provide subsidized credit.
[DatePublished] => 2002-10-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096655 [AuthorName] => Des Ferriols [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 153609 [Title] => NCC sets regulatory guidelines [Summary] => The National Credit Council (NCC) is working overtime to standardize the proper regulatory framework for the microfinance and the cooperative sectors. The NCC is a government policy-making entity.

It approved recently the standardization of the chart of accounts of cooperatives that should help improve loan disbursement to the 54,000 cooperatives spread out nationwide.

As of last record, P4 billion has reportedly been released through cooperatives, which in turn cater to the small and micro enterprises.
[DatePublished] => 2002-03-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Banking [SectionUrl] => banking [URL] => ) ) )
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                    [ArticleID] => 739865
                    [Title] => Microinsurance aggresively targeting low-income group
                    [Summary] => 

The National Credit Council (NCC) said it is optimistic more Filipinos in the lower income bracket will get insurance protection with the aggressive growth and introduction of microinsurance.

[DatePublished] => 2011-10-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097672 [AuthorName] => Ted P. Torres [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 352993 [Title] => DBP allocates P1B for wholesale microfinance lending [Summary] => The Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) is stepping up its assistance to the microfinance sector with the approval of its micro-agri product by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) as a microfinance loan.

Initial fund is P1 billion basically preferred for the agriculture sector including for enterprise development, housing, and agribusiness. The facility will be demand-driven at market rates.
[DatePublished] => 2006-08-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Banking [SectionUrl] => banking [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 264418 [Title] => NCC abolition to free P8.1B for direct credit [Summary] => The Arroyo administration is reviving its plan to abolish the National Credit Council (NCC) to free up P8.1 billion in direct credit programs that could be given to borrowers at government-subsidized rates.

Following the uproar over the proposed lifting of Executive Order 138, Cabinet sources said the government is looking into other credit programs that could be used to provide subsidized credit to small borrowers.
[DatePublished] => 2004-09-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096655 [AuthorName] => Des Ferriols [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 250316 [Title] => $40-M ADB loan sought to finance SME projects [Summary] => The Small Business Guarantee and Finance Corp. (SB Corp.) is planning to tap the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for a $40- million loan to finance the projects of small and medium enterprises (SMEs).

Of the $40 million loan, some $25 million will be used for wholesale lending to banks and onlending to domestic SME borrowers while the $15 million will be provided to TIDCORP’s (PHILEXIM) onlending to SME exporters.
[DatePublished] => 2004-05-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096364 [AuthorName] => Donnabelle L. Gatdula [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 245590 [Title] => BSP okays uniform rules for micro-finance projects [Summary] => The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has approved the uniform performance standard for micro-finance projects, aligning non-government organizations (NGOs) with the standards used on banks and quasi-banks. [DatePublished] => 2004-04-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096655 [AuthorName] => Des Ferriols [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 226538 [Title] => BSP may seek foreign funding for study on creation of centralized credit info bureau [Summary] => The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) is planning to conduct a foreign-funded study on the requirements for the proposed creation of a centralized credit information bureau.

The centralized credit information bureau will be mandated to create a negative and positive list of all small and medium enterprise (SME) borrowers, microfinance borrowers, credit card borrowers and other consumer loan users.
[DatePublished] => 2003-11-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096655 [AuthorName] => Des Ferriols [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 193197 [Title] => BSP starts microfinance roadshow in Cebu City [Summary] => The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) will launch the microfinance regional advocacy program in Cebu City on Jan. 31.

This will be the first of a series of information seminars that will be held in the strategic regions of the country to promote the development of sustainable microfinance. The end goal of this endeavor is to catalyze the development of sustainable microfinance institutions in the country to be able to reach a larger number of entrepreneurial poor.
[DatePublished] => 2003-01-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Banking [SectionUrl] => banking [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 180083 [Title] => Abolition of NCC seen to free P8-B for subsidized lending [Summary] => The Arroyo administration is planning to abolish the National Credit Council (NCC) to free up P8.1 billion in direct credit programs that could be lent out to borrowers at government-subisidized rates.

Sources privy to the administration’s streamlining efforts revealed that after the uproar over the proposed lifting of Executive Order 138, the government looked into other credit programs that could be used to provide subsidized credit.
[DatePublished] => 2002-10-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096655 [AuthorName] => Des Ferriols [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 153609 [Title] => NCC sets regulatory guidelines [Summary] => The National Credit Council (NCC) is working overtime to standardize the proper regulatory framework for the microfinance and the cooperative sectors. The NCC is a government policy-making entity.

It approved recently the standardization of the chart of accounts of cooperatives that should help improve loan disbursement to the 54,000 cooperatives spread out nationwide.

As of last record, P4 billion has reportedly been released through cooperatives, which in turn cater to the small and micro enterprises.
[DatePublished] => 2002-03-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Banking [SectionUrl] => banking [URL] => ) ) )
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