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Corporate Governance Blueprint 2015
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March 30, 2021
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...
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Trusting the Messages and the Messenger: Filipinos and the COVID-19 Vaccines
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March 23, 2021
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...
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New Worlds To Round
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March 16, 2021
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,...
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The “Administrative Sanction Approach” to Corporate Governance Reforms
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March 9, 2021
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...
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On The Moral Responsibility Of Business: An Alternative View
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March 2, 2021
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...
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The Criminalized Corporate Governance Reform Under The Revised Corporation Code
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February 23, 2021
The most profound effects of the Revised Corporation Code in the pursuit of the corporate governance (CG) reforms in the private corporate sector may be grouped into three areas, namely: First, the granting of statutory foundation to the CG principles and best-practices championed by the...
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Pushing Agribusiness Trade
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February 16, 2021
Friends ask me: Where do we invest post-COVID? Despite potential, agricultural export is stuck at around US$7 Billion (B). But agricultural imports are near US$11B or a trade deficit of US$4B. The Philippines I lags its ASEAN peers, most of which have trade surpluses. There...
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The Weight Of Influence In Trust
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February 9, 2021
They are omnipresent, quite inescapable, and — let’s face it — growing in number. As more people gain access to social media platforms and discover their voice and amass followers, influencers as we call them have exponentially increased digital content and, ultimately, changed the way...
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Mainstreaming Diversity & Inclusion for Good Corporate Governance
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February 2, 2021
“Unprecedented” is one word that we hear over and over again – unprecedented demands, challenges, threats, impacts, and the list goes on. Quoting the World Bank Group, what we are experiencing is “an unprecedented crisis, with devastating health, economic, and social effects felt around the...
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