Meeting the love of your life at a party seems like a thing of the past with online dating experiencing a major boom—not in the least thanks to the pandemic. Tinder reached a record three billion swipes in a single day in March 2020, while OkCupid experienced a massive 700-percent increase in dates from March…
With the sudden heavy dependence on online transactions as a result of quarantine restrictions to contain the spread of COVID-19, trust has become an even more important value for both consumers and businesses. Consumers had to trust businesses online with their valuable personal information, for example, while companies had to trust their employees to really…
Open Finance and payments platform i2i has been providing financial services to micro-business owners like Mang Efren, a vegetable stall owner in Cebu. Mang Efren was able to pick up his approved loan proceeds conveniently from the nearest partner remittance center through i2i, currently the fastest-growing Open Finance and payments platform in the country. UBX…
For millions of Filipinos working hard on foreign soil in order to provide for their families back home, remittance centers have served as their reliable partners in securing their loved ones’ futures. With fintech solutions becoming more mainstream, traditional remittance centers now need to keep up with changing times—a need that Pera Hub aims to…
Coca-Cola has lived to 109 years in the Philippines because it subscribed to the mantra that to weather the inevitable crises, it must change with the times while remaining true to its core values. It did so once again amid the still-raging COVID-19 pandemic and it responded to the massive disruption by aggressively pursuing its…
Not even the COVID-19 pandemic could slow down the pace at which telecommunications giant Globe wants to roll out new products and services that address the everyday needs of its customers. The telecommunications arm of the Ayala group has always been proud to be an innovator, says Globe CEO Ernest Cu, guided by its vision…
McDonald’s Philippines has long been a formidable leader in the quick service restaurant sector, but even then, it was not spared from the ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic. But true to its character of resilience, McDonald’s Philippines was able to regain its bearings with its fundamentals intact and mission to recover from the pandemic sharpened.…
AC Energy Corp. (Acen) along with the Zabaleta group have divested their minority shareholdings in three biomass-fed power projects in the Visayas as part of moves by the Ayala group to concentrate on their core renewable energy projects—solar and wind. The three projects are the 20-megawatt San Carlos BioPower, 25 MW North Negros BioPower and…
The COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting lockdowns to contain it have devastated the country’s economy. But even then, there are reasons to be optimistic that the worst is over and that the Philippines can look forward to much better times ahead. To help Filipinos navigate through the crisis, the Philippine Daily Inquirer, the other members…