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Under the aegis of “Building a Stronger Corporate Governance Framework,” the SEC, under Chairperson Herbosa, formally promulgated the Philippine Corporate Governance Blueprint 2015 that embodied the SEC’s corporate governance (CG) roadmap for the next five years that would see the adoption of a new Code...

As we edge to the one-year mark of COVID-19’s arrival on Philippine soil, we have reason to be cautiously optimistic. We followed in the global trend and have begun vaccinating healthcare professionals, and multiple deals with various providers are being finalized. Though this may indicate...

Occasional Poetry on the 500th year of the Circumnavigation of the World and the Arrival of Christianity in the Philippines (March 1521) The coronavirus – red-hot dots in man’s circle of life under a Copernican sun? Five centuries past, five ships ply oceans across cumulus,...

2009 Revised CG Code: A Reactionary Approach When the Revised Code of Corporate Governance (RCCG) was issued by the SEC in June 2009, it changed the regulatory approach to the corporate governance reform by providing for a general administrative sanction clause for any violation of...

In November last year, the largest business and professional associations in the Philippines – collectively called the Philippine Business Group (PBG which includes the Management Association of the Philippines, sponsor of this column) signed a “Covenant for Shared Prosperity” by which it pledged to address...