Speaking Out

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 09:04:43 +0000

  YESTERDAY (March 1, 2020) Muntinlupa marked its 25th anniversary as a highly urbanised city. When I assumed office as OIC Mayor in June 1986, Muntinlupa was still classified as a fifth class municipality. It was earning ap­proximately P28 million per year which was hardly sufficient to pay for the salaries of municipal em­ployees. Thus, […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2020 05:59:03 +0000

  PRESIDENT Sheila Marie U. Tan had every reason to be proud last week as she reported to her board about the record performance of BPI Asset Management and Trust Corporation (BPI AMTC). BPI AMTC, which is celebrating its third year anniversary as a stand-alone trust corporation this February, has reached Php731 Billion in Asset […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 06:50:14 +0000

  FOR the last 27 years, it has been the tradition of all Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Governors (since Governor Gabriel Singson) to speak before the 1st General Assembly of the Rotary Club of Manila. This usually happens on the very first week of the year. And on the third week, the BSP governor […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 07:23:20 +0000

  WE live in rapidly changing times, thanks to the technological wonders of internet and social media. As fast as we can click and send, we can broadcast messages to friends, relatives and to just about anybody, anywhere in the world. This despite the fact that Philippines re­mains the slowest and most expensive – in […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2019 07:47:13 +0000

  THERE are three sides to any argument: 1. Your Side 2. My Side and 3. The Correct Side. Allow to present “My Side,” meaning Manila Water Side. In the interest of full disclosure, let me state that I am an Independent Director of Bank of the Philippine Islands which is related to Manila Water […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2019 05:56:31 +0000

  AS early as 23 July 2019, Muntinlupa City Mayor Jaime R. Fresnedi created Task Force Discipline (TFD) to assist the local government “to maintain peace and order, and preserve the comfort and convenience of its inhabitants”. TFD was empowered “to suggest and implement an integrated approach to solving problems related to peace and order […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 07:22:07 +0000

  IT was an auspicious day recently at the Philippine Dealing and Exchange Corporation (PDEX). Bank of the Philippines became the 30th issuer at PDEX this year with its issue of a P3 billion Long Term Negotiable Certificate of Deposit (LTNCD). Antonino A. Nakpil, President and COO of PDEX, said that BPI’s issue broke PDEX’s […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 12:47:02 +0000

  I WAS raised inside the Bureau of Prisons reservations in Muntinlupa. I studied at the Itaas Elementary School and later at the Muntinlupa National High School. I grew up with children of prison employees. I knew and interacted with prisoners up close. One of them, I found out many years later, was a convicted […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 07:41:54 +0000

  BPI Capital Corporation President Rhoda “Chiqui” Huang was ecstatic as she reported to her board late last month. BPI Capital, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI), had acted as Sole Global Coordinator for two recent consecutive issues – spaced five days apart – of the BPI Green Bonds. The first […]