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[Title] => Top Line floats P1.5 billion preferred shares for Visayas fuel infra push
[Summary] => Cebu-based fuel distributor Top Line Business Development Corp. is offering investors dividend yields of as much as 9.6% in a preferred share sale that could raise up to P1.5 billion, as the company accelerates investments in fuel importation and storage infrastructure across the Visayas.
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[Title] => SEC issues rules on lifting ban on new lending apps
[Summary] => The Securities and Exchange Commission SEChas revised its planned circular to lift the moratorium on online lending platforms (OLP) and raise the capital requirements for financing and lending companies, in a bid to improve regulatory oversight of the sector and strengthen consumer protection policies.
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[Title] => SEC streamlines securities borrowing, lending framework
[Summary] => The Securities and Exchange Commission is reinforcing efforts to build a more efficient and integrated short selling market in the country as it streamlines the securities borrowing and lending framework by centralizing administrative functions with the Philippine Stock Exchange.
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[Title] => Market-making reform targets liquidity gap
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[Title] => GMA gets court OK to withdraw case vs SEC
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[Title] => Term limits set in PSE board
[Summary] => The Securities and Exchange Commission is pushing through with its controversial move to impose a term limit on broker-directors of an exchange, but will give incumbent broker-directors a two-year transition period, allowing them to complete their current term and remain eligible for election in the next two annual elections.
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[Title] => Two-year transition eyed for broker-director term limits
[Summary] => The simmering war between the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Philippine Stock Exchange over a controversial plan to limit the terms of the PSE’s broker-directors may have been averted, at least for now.
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[Title] => SEC clears Top Line’s P1.5 billion preferred share offer
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[Title] => SEC likely to keep P1 million minimum capital for lending
[Summary] => The Securities and Exchange Commission may maintain the existing P1 million minimum capital requirement for lending companies under a proposed circular lifting the moratorium on online lending platforms, but their territorial jurisdictions will be limited.
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[Title] => Lopezes seek SEC, PSE probe on First Gen’s ‘poison pill’ disclosures
[Summary] => The Lopez family majority has called on the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) to investigate First Gen Corp.’s delayed disclosure of “poison pills” or change of management control provisions in the company’s business deals with Prime Infrastructure.
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[Title] => SEC issues rules on lifting ban on new lending apps
[Summary] => The Securities and Exchange Commission SEChas revised its planned circular to lift the moratorium on online lending platforms (OLP) and raise the capital requirements for financing and lending companies, in a bid to improve regulatory oversight of the sector and strengthen consumer protection policies.
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[Title] => SEC streamlines securities borrowing, lending framework
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[Title] => GMA gets court OK to withdraw case vs SEC
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[Title] => Term limits set in PSE board
[Summary] => The Securities and Exchange Commission is pushing through with its controversial move to impose a term limit on broker-directors of an exchange, but will give incumbent broker-directors a two-year transition period, allowing them to complete their current term and remain eligible for election in the next two annual elections.
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[Title] => SEC clears Top Line’s P1.5 billion preferred share offer
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[Title] => SEC likely to keep P1 million minimum capital for lending
[Summary] => The Securities and Exchange Commission may maintain the existing P1 million minimum capital requirement for lending companies under a proposed circular lifting the moratorium on online lending platforms, but their territorial jurisdictions will be limited.
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[Title] => Lopezes seek SEC, PSE probe on First Gen’s ‘poison pill’ disclosures
[Summary] => The Lopez family majority has called on the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) to investigate First Gen Corp.’s delayed disclosure of “poison pills” or change of management control provisions in the company’s business deals with Prime Infrastructure.
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