The financing will help reach underserved and unserved entrepreneurs, particularly in rural and hard-to-access areas where traditional banking services remain limited.
Micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) and women entrepreneurs across the Philippines are set to gain ...
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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a P1.75-billion ($30 million) credit facility for Fuse Financing Inc., the ...
The OCTA Q4 2025 survey showed self-rated food poverty dropping by 19 percentage points, from 49 percent in the third quarter ...
ADB has signed a $30 million loan to Fuse Financing Inc. to help expand access to credit for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) through a digital lending platform. The financing will ...
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Why poverty persists, no matter who wins

Poverty in the Philippines is neither a mystery, nor an accident. And certainly, it is not what the poor want for themselves or their loved ones. Absolutely, not their fault in spite of some ...
FUSE Financing Inc., the lending arm of GCash, was granted a P1.75-billion ($30 million) loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to provide greater financial access to micro, small and medium-sized ...
DESPITE declining official poverty figures, state think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) on Wednesday found that about three in 10 households still faced a high risk of falling ...
ADB grants GCash lending arm Fuse Financing with P1.75-B credit facility to expand loan access to MSMEs, women entrepreneurs, especially in high poverty areas. ADB’s  financing is complemented by ...
MANILA, Philippines — Millions of Filipino families remain at risk of poverty even as the Philippines moves closer to ...
On January 1, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) conducted aerial bombing and strafing of the indigenous Mangyan-Iraya community in Occidental ...