Philippines

If you own a small company in the Philippines, you know that payment management can be a real headache due to problems such as delayed transactions and customer preferences. But everything changes when you know the payment systems that…

MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines will impose a 12% value-added tax on digital services offered by technology giants such as Amazon (NASDAQ:), Netflix (NASDAQ:), Disney and Alphabet (NASDAQ:), in 2019. The Internal Revenue Agency said On…

Paul Gould The Philippines is looking to modernize its military with missiles and 40 fighter jets in its latest spending plan amid rising geopolitical tensions in its region, according to several news reports. The country wants to spend…

Israel Shipyards (TASE: ISHI) will deliver two Shaldag MK5 fast attack craft to the Philippine Navy later this month or early September, MaxDefense reports. Both ships will be equipped with Rafael’s MLR-NLOS launcher and…

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (CBPC) is the largest bank in the Philippines.B S BChina is set to launch a wholesale central bank digital currency (CBDC) by 2029. The move comes amid a global trend for central…

MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippine Coast Guard on Friday accused its Chinese counterpart of obstructing efforts to evacuate a sick soldier from its armed forces in the South China Sea, describing its actions as “barbaric and inhumane.” The…

The Philippines' securities regulator has taken enforcement action against Binance, ordering Google and Apple to remove its apps from their respective app stores. This action follows allegations that Binance offered unregistered securities…

The Philippines' securities regulator recently issued a warning against XM, the online trading platform for forex and crypto CFDs, for offering unauthorized securities in the country. According to an advisory dated April 4, the Philippines'…

Any "salesmen, brokers, dealers or agents" promoting eToro in the Philippines will risk a monetary penalty of 5 million pesos (about US$88,500) or an imprisonment of up to 21 years, or both. This came as, according to the local regulator,…

Israel’s share of the global trade in arms is declining, even though its arms exports have grown in absolute terms in recent years. This emerges from the annual report on the arms trade by the Stockholm International…