A San Miguel-led consortium has petitioned the government to reconsider its disqualification from the P1.72-billion public-private partnership (PPP) project that seeks to introduce contactless-based smart card technology into the metropolis’ light railway transit (LRT) system.
There seems to be no stopping the move to merge the Philippine Dealing System Holdings Corp. (PDS) with the Philippine Stock Exchange, with the latter as the surviving entity—a move that will create a unified bourse and allow fund managers, bankers and even retail investors to trade both stocks and bonds.
Local conglomerates, airlines and airport operators, including those associated with world-class facilities in Singapore and South Korea, are keen on participating in the government’s first airport public-private partnership project to be rolled out—the Mactan-Cebu International Airport.
The government’s Public-Private Partnership (PPP) projects may be slow to get out of the starting blocks, but one certainly cannot accuse officials of the PPP Center of sleeping on the job.
Uh-oh. In the first ever attempt of the Aquino (Part II) administration to make a go of its much-vaunted PPP program—now three years in the making and nothing yet happening—it looks like the guys down here must take the hardest blow.
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas has extended the effectivity of a temporary regulation that allows banks to lend more to firms investing in priority infrastructure projects of the government.
The government-owned Korea Development Bank has signed a deal with state-run Development Bank of the Philippines to engage in the co-financing of infrastructure projects under the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) program and other growth initiatives for the Philippines.
In the last SONA, P-Noy said: “Nothing is impossible to a united nation.” This includes uniting the public and private sectors following P-Noy’s Public Private Partnership (PPP) paradigm. We describe here an admirable PPP model for agriculture that others can follow.
The Aquino administration may surpass its target of bidding out eight public-private partnership (PPP) projects this year, according to a status update by the government’s PPP Center.
The acronym PPP, more popularly known as public-private partnership, nearly took on an ugly meaning for the Philippines as a foreign consultant tapped to draft the country’s comprehensive PPP policy statement unabashedly came out with a blueprint that was strikingly similar to an existing online resource.
The Investment Coordination Committee (ICC) of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) has approved the P19.69-billion Cavite-Laguna (Cala) Expressway project, an official of the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Center said. PPP Center executive director Cosette Canilao said the ICC approved the project in its meeting on Thursday. The project will be submitted to the NEDA [...]
Canadian pension organizations have expressed interest in the country’s Public-Private Partnership (PPP) projects, the PPP Center said on Monday.
