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

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

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

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

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

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

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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