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December 2024
- Philippines: What is Project Agila, the Philippines central bank digital peso pilot project? Here’s an explainer from Rappler / full item
- Philippines: Central bank and partners have completed the testing phase for Project Agila, looking at wholesale central bank digital currency in large-value payments / full item
- Philippines: Department of Science & Tech launches Program PROPEL to provide a range of support and development services to Filipino innovators from startup to scaling-up / full item
- Philippines: Huawei Cloud launches its first public cloud availability zones in the country, offering over 100 cloud computing services / full item
- Philippines: An intro to AgriConnect, national winner of the Red Bull Basement competition, AI-driven app that alerts farmers to crop threats to help manage risks / full item
- Meet YUME, music-tech startup providing musicians with royalties management, publishing, streaming and more, with listeners rewarded for support / full item
- Australia: Austrade opens EOIs for firms in AI, cybersec and blockchain for upcoming visit to the Philippines in February 2025, looking to boost collaboration and business growth / full item
- Dubai’s Damac Group unveils plan to invest $3BN to build data centers across Southeast Asia, seeing the region as a future hub for AI and cloud services / full item
- ADB and Mastercard Impact Fund ink MOU to provide financing for women-led or -owned MSMEs in India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam / full item
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November 2024
- Philippines: Central bank looks to tighten virtual assets reporting requirements via new reporting portal, commencing January 1st 2025, in bid to boost stability and trust / full item
- Gobi-Core Philippine Fund unveils new report, ‘Philippine Horizons – Filipino Innovation in the ASEAN Landscape’ in partnership with Alibaba Cloud and Eskwelabs / full item
- Philippines: Yield Guild Games Web3 gaming guild protocol to launch ‘Onchain Guilds’, a new platform on the Ethereum blockchain providing verifiable records / full item
Video: ‘How can Philippine startups unlock Web3?’, a brief set of opinions from Filipino blockchain startups / full item
- Philippines’ logistics-tech firm, Locad, hits $9M in fresh funding with sights on UAE and Saudi Arabia expansion, providing 3rd-party e-commerce storage-to-delivery services / full item
- Philippines: Gov’t is to launch GBonds via GCash fintech app in bid to boost citizens’ uptake of government securities / full item
- JUST Finance, UBX open finance platform and Philippine bank consortium partner on blockchain-based, multi-currency stablecoin exchange, targeting Philippines’ $40BN remittances space / full item
- Download: ‘Report on the Philippine Financial System, H1 2024′ from the Philippines’ central bank, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas / full item
Philippines: “M-commerce is estimated to comprise 13.2% of the total retail market in the Philippines, which is projected to reach $83.7 billion (P4.7 trillion) by 2025…” / full item
- Philippine Startup Week’s 6th edition is on now, showcasing the Filipino tech startup ecosystem and featuring speakers from Product Hunt, Google Cloud, Ideaspace and more / full item
- Lufthansa Technik Philippines Startup Challenge unveils the startups selected for the 2024 AI-focused round of the aerospace industry competition / full item
- Australia’s Canva partners Philippines’ Enstack e-commerce platform, providing businesses with free-to-use design tools, in part focusing on Enstack mobile app-based store builder / full item
- 5 Project Nexus central banks to establish Nexus Scheme Org’n managing entity for live implementations of the BIS cross-border initiative to interlink realtime payment rails / full item
Fostering Order in the Indo-Pacific: What the European can learn
October 2024
- The Philippines is betting that its low costs and ample workforce could help attract manufacturers. Talent shortage is one of the main challenges for global chipmakers… / full item
- Philippines: Ayala Corp to sell 50% of shares in Mynt, parent of GCash – and JV between China’s Ant Group, Philippines’ Globe Telecom and Ayala – to Japan’s Mitsubishi in $318M deal / full item
- Philippines: A brief overview of the blockchain-based startups incubated by Block Dojo PH, working on solutions in fitness, mental health, pet care and more / full item
- Philippine Space Agency, the European Union, and PH Dept of Science & Tech launch CopPhil Centre, infrastructure program and satellite data mirror site / full item
- Philippines: Over 250 arrested in raid on online scam farm in Manila, located less than 1km from Pasay City Senate building / full item
- Philippines: “…data released by the BSP… showed the share of digital payments to total retail payment transactions in the country grew to 52.8% in 2023, from 42.1% in 2022…” / full item
- The Philippines is looking to develop 128,000 semiconductor industry-focused engineers and technicians by 2028, further growing its place in packaging and assembly / full item
- Philippines: IGNITE 2024 Conference & Expo takes place in Manilla, October 10-11, featuring thought leaders from The Philippines, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, Indonesia and Malaysia / full item
- Philippines: Clout Kitchen AI startup raises $4.45M with gaming- and pop culture-focused fan engagement, with first product an AI-driven in-game ‘buddy’ / full item
- Philippines: International Finance Corp’n, World Bank Group member, invests over $7M in First Circle, a smart banking firm focused on Filipino SMEs / full item
- Philippines: New law passes, placing 12% tax on offshore firms providing digital services, impacting products and services including search, webinars, mobile apps, games and more / full item
- Philippines: StB Giga Factory Inc launches to produce advanced lithium iron phosphate batteries, with plans to export 70% / full item
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