GCash enables young professionals, MSMEs to unlock financial goals

GCash, the Philippines’ number one financial super app, is enabling young professionals and micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) to unlock their financial goals through the many accessible digital financial services it offers like savings, loans, insurance, and even investments.

GCash recently shared that young professionals are becoming more independent, budget conscious, and open to trying simple ways to earn more while owners of MSMEs struggle to find accessible financing to expand their business and reach more customers.

Overseas Filipino Workers get a chance to win up to PHP 500,000 with Pru Life UK

Pru Life UK rewards OFWs in achieving their financial goals and securing a better future for their families.

Leading life insurer Pru Life UK is giving Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) an opportunity to win up to PHP 500,000 with the Balikbayan Raffle-PRUTektadong OFW Special.

To join, interested OFWs can earn one raffle entry by simply signing up via www.PRUTektadongOFW.com for a free virtual financial consultation with a Pru Life UK agent once they are back in the Philippines. OFWs will be guided on how to set and achieve their financial goals, manage their finances better, and get tips on how to secure their families’ future.

UBX introduces startup mixer; zeroes in on collaboration, building alliances

UBX, the leading open finance platform in the Philippines, has mounted its first regular mixer event, bringing in founders, industry players, venture capitalists, and investors together in a bid to hasten the development of the local startup scene.

Called the UBX Lounge 48 Mixer, UBX organizes the quarterly social gathering together with communities and organizations like JCI Manila, Alike Community, and Fintech Alliance to allow startups to meet, collaborate, and exchange ideas and initiatives over good food and drinks. 

“The key to getting through the ever changing business landscape globally is to be open and to collaborate. We are all part of one ecosystem that supports each other. It is important that we continuously engage and collaborate with the community,” UBX President John Januszczak said. 

BPI SEAL empowers micro and small enterprises for sustainable growth

BPI Foundation extends opportunities to micro and small enterprises through its new program, SEAL-SEGA.

BPI Foundation, the social development arm of the Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) today, launched a program for the development of local micro and small enterprises (MSEs) called BPI Small Enterprise Acceleration Lab (SEAL), with its first track, Small Enterprise Growth Agenda (SEGA), in partnership with Bayan Academy.  

Allianz PNB Life is PH’s fastest growing insurance company

Allianz PNB Life continues to be the country’s fastest-growing life insurance company, evident through the remarkable numbers shown in its 2021 Annual Report.

The company has announced that its total premium income in 2021 reached ₱30 billion, despite the challenges posed by the pandemic on the company and the economic difficulties that plagued the Philippines because of protracted lockdowns and other community quarantine restrictions throughout 2020 and 2021. 

Allianz PNB Life was also able to maintain this strong performance for the second year in a row and according to its 2021 Annual Report, the company is also among the top five companies that provide life and health insurance in the Philippines.

Home Credit launches “Para sa Life” campaign with new song performed by Moira dela Torre

Home Credit deepens its commitment to Filipino consumers in pursuing life’s dreams through “Para sa Life"

Home Credit Philippines (HCPH), the country’s leading consumer finance company, launches “Para sa Life” campaign that shares a message of hope for a better life for Filipinos. This new initiative of Home Credit is launched through a campaign video with a song performed by Filipino singer-songwriter Moira dela Torre.

With the hope to inspire new beginnings, Home Credit positions itself as a reliable financial partner that assists Filipinos as they begin a new chapter in life. Apart from providing financial assistance and literacy, Home Credit aims to empower Filipinos to claim what they deserve and to jump-start a new life through various opportunities they offer.

UBX doubles down on insurtech, introduces integrated employee benefit financial wellness ecosystem in SG

UBX, the leading open finance platform in the Philippines, is doubling down its focus on insurance technology (insurtech), introducing an integrated employee financial wellness benefits ecosystem in Singapore. 

During the Insuretech Connect Asia conference in Singapore, UBX Head of Business Development for Insurance Marc Gorospe formally introduced UBX’s Employee Benefits Platform, an integrated employee benefit financial wellness ecosystem that equips employees with financial tools and services, while also empowering companies to streamline their employee benefits, processes, and initiatives in one single platform.

Introduced in the Philippines earlier this year, the platform is an online portal that distributes, manages, and supports financial resilience and wellness through tools that allow employees to manage their finances and enable employers to efficiently conduct human resource (HR) practices.

“We are honored to be part of Insuretech Connect, the largest global gathering of innovators, industry players, and investors in the insurtech arena. We believe that introducing UBX’s Financial Wellness Employee Benefits Program during this conference is the best avenue for UBX to launch its first open finance product in Singapore,” Gorospe said.