FILINVEST.COMLISTED Filinvest REIT Corp. (FILRT) targets an expansion of the occupancy rate of its office portfolio to 95% by 2026 as the company looks to sustain growth, its president said.“FILRT aims to reach an occupancy of 95% before 2026 driven by tenant diversification. We are

1 of 2VENCHI, the Italian brand of chocolate and gelato that has been delighting customers since 1878, has arrived in the Philippines.It was founded by Silviano Venchi who spent all his savings to buy two bronze cauldrons to experiment with chocolate. His chocolates achieved such

EMIRATES.COMDUBAI-BASED carrier Emirates is optimistic about the Philippine travel market amid growing demand for leisure travel, a company official said.”Our presence in the Philippines is very strong,” Saeed Abdulla Miran, Emirates Philippines country manager, told reporters on Wednesday.Mr. Miran said that the airline’s passenger volume

PHILIPPINE STAR/WALTER BOLLOZOSTHE CENTRAL BANK’S term deposit facility (TDF) fetched bids worth P290.223 billion, above the P250-billion offer and P286.038 billion in tenders a week ago.Tenders for the seven-day debt reached P177.147 billion against the P140 billion auctioned off by the central bank and P154.396

1 of 2I RECENTLY attended a Wines of Portugal event at the Fairmont Hotel in Makati City. I normally get half a dozen or so invitations to these types of events annually, and due to my busy schedule, often I do not get to attend.

FREEPIKTHE PHILIPPINE government must grant more incentives and strengthen its digital infrastructure to support the growth of startups, analysts said.“The (startup) ecosystem needs to offer compelling benefits to would-be startup founders for them to domicile in the Philippines,” Jay Fajardo, executive director at Ideaspace Ventures

PHILIPPINE STAR/MICHAEL VARCASTHE COURT of Tax Appeals (CTA) has granted NLEX Corp., a unit of Metro Pacific Tollways Corp. (MPTC), a P3.8-million tax refund for local business taxes erroneously paid to the City of Valenzuela for taxable years 2012 to 2019, citing the local government

ATOME.PHDIGITAL financial service platform Atome Financial said it secured as much as $200 million in syndicate credit facility, which will open up more financing in the Southeast Asian region.This would allow it to launch innovative personal finance products in key markets like Singapore, Malaysia and

1 of 3FOR CENTURIES, the apple has captured the world’s imagination. In several languages, the word apple has become a substitute for the idea of fruit itself: the French name for potato, pomme de terre, translates to “apple of the earth,” while Italian’s pomodoro, the

FREEPIKMASTERCARD Philippines expects banks to begin integrating near-field communication (NFC) capabilities into their apps and cards by next year as contactless transactions continue to rise.“When I say tokenization, that is putting your card or payment credentials on your phone so that you don’t even have

BW FILE PHOTOJOLLIBEE Foods Corp. (JFC) expects to finalize the S$20.2-million acquisition of Hong Kong-based restaurant Tim Ho Wan by January 2025, according to its chief financial officer (CFO).“Beginning January, this (Tim Ho Wan) brand and business of 80+ stores will be a subsidiary of

FREEPIK(Conclusion)You either love him or you hate him, but US President-elect Donald Trump’s impending assumption of office in two months has had Asian markets on the edge amid fears of an escalating US-China trade war, which has been raging since 2018.Hopefully, our economic managers’ scenario