{"id":270,"date":"2021-06-17T13:52:29","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T05:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sofcpartners.com\/?p=270"},"modified":"2021-06-21T10:29:41","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T02:29:41","slug":"industry-insight-digital-economy-and-financial-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sofcpartners.com\/industry-insight-digital-economy-and-financial-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Philippines: January 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"entry-summary\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-summary-title\">Here&#8217;s what you need to know:<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"entry-summary-items\">\n<li><a href=\"#covid-19-status-government-secures-vaccines-and-takes-action-against-new-covid-19-variant\">COVID-19 Status: Government secures vaccines and takes action against new COVID-19 variant<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#macroeconomic-updates-policy-support-and-infrastructure-spending\">Macroeconomic Updates: Policy support and infrastructure spending<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#deal-spotlight-cvc-capital-locks-in-investment-in-the-philippines\">Deal Spotlight: CVC Capital locks in investment in the Philippines<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#industry-insight-digital-economy-and-financial-services\">Industry Insight: Digital Economy and Financial Services<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside>\n<h2 id=\"covid-19-status-government-secures-vaccines-and-takes-action-against-new-covid-19-variant\">COVID-19 Status: Government secures vaccines and takes action against new COVID-19 variant<\/h2>\n<p><em><strong>PH Government continues to secure COVID-19 vaccines<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Travel ban imposed on around 28 countries affected by new COVID-19 variant<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 id=\"macroeconomic-updates-policy-support-and-infrastructure-spending\">Macroeconomic Updates: Policy support and infrastructure spending<\/h2>\n<p><em><strong>PH Senate approves the Corporate Recovery and Tax Incentives for Enterprises (CREATE) Act<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Infrastructure projects to prioritize key sectors in the country<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 id=\"deal-spotlight-cvc-capital-locks-in-investment-in-the-philippines\">Deal Spotlight: CVC Capital locks in investment in the Philippines<\/h2>\n<p><em><strong>CVC Capital acquires stake in Philippines logistics firm, FAST<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 id=\"industry-insight-digital-economy-and-financial-services\">Industry Insight: Digital Economy and Financial Services<\/h2>\n<p><em><strong>Study by Bain, Google, and Temasek sees a booming Philippine internet sector<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Philippines ranks 2nd in Asia, behind India and 8th overall out of 55 countries based on financial inclusion initiatives<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"btn\" href=\"https:\/\/sofcpartners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/SofCap-ITP-202101.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download the full report<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s what you need to know: COVID-19 Status: Government secures vaccines and takes action against new COVID-19 variant Macroeconomic Updates: Policy support and infrastructure spending Deal Spotlight: CVC Capital locks in investment in the Philippines Industry Insight: Digital Economy and Financial Services COVID-19 Status: Government secures vaccines and takes action against new COVID-19 variant PH [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sofcpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sofcpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sofcpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sofcpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sofcpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/sofcpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299,"href":"https:\/\/sofcpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions\/299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sofcpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sofcpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sofcpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}