April 1, 2019
Mynt, the Philippine payments operator backed by billionaire Jack Ma’s Ant Financial, plans to roll out insurance products en route to becoming a sprawling financial services platform in its Chinese ally’s image. The operator of the GCash app is now …
October 15, 2018
The Philippines’ finance ministry said on Sunday it was exploring a plan to sponsor a catastrophe bond issue, similar to the one launched by the World Bank early this year covering Latin American earthquakes. The so-called cat bonds would help …
December 27, 2017
A powerful storm that left a trail of death and destruction in the Philippines was downgraded to a tropical depression Tuesday [Dec. 26] and failed to make landfall in Vietnam. Hundreds of thousands of people in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta had …
April 5, 2016
AXA Philippines announced it has completed the acquisition of Charter Ping An Insurance Co. for €40 million ($45.6 million) from GT Capital. The acquisition of CPA, the fifth largest non-life insurer in the Philippines, enables AXA Philippines to offer property …
November 9, 2015
AXA Philippines announced it will acquire 100 percent of Charter Ping An Insurance Corp. from GT Capital for 45 million euros ($48.3 million). The acquisition will enable AXA Philippines to offer property & casualty insurance products, along with its current …