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Digital dinosaurs: IBM PH head on how to deal with them

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Some dinosaurs evolved into birds, but human dinosaurs are unwilling or unable to embrace digital. So how do we deal with digital dinosaurs?

“First of all, I think we shouldn’t force them. They will move when they see others move. In the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was almost a freeze for the dinosaurs. But they will realize that if you go on your current course, then it will not be sustainable,” said IBM Philippines President and Country General Manager Aileen Judan-Jiao in response to my question.

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Bonds.PH app makes bond investing easy for unbanked

Union Bank of the Philippines President and CEO Edwin R. Bautista says the Bonds.PH mobile app will benefit every Filipino.
Union Bank of the Philippines President and CEO Edwin R. Bautista says the Bonds.PH mobile app will benefit every Filipino.

Have you ever thought of investing in retail treasury bonds? Now the Bonds.PH mobile app makes it easy for every Filipino, even the unbanked, to do so for as low as US$100.

The Philippine Bureau of the Treasury (BTr) is the first in Asia to launch an app for the distribution of retail treasury bonds enabled by Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT).

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