{"id":446,"date":"2022-08-10T04:18:30","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T20:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sofcpartners.com\/?p=446"},"modified":"2022-08-10T04:23:14","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T20:23:14","slug":"inside-the-philippines-august-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sofcpartners.com\/inside-the-philippines-august-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Philippines: August 2022"},"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=\"#macro-developments-upgrades-in-philippine-growth-forecasts-and-further-monetary-policy-tightening\">Macro Developments: Upgrades in Philippine growth forecasts and further monetary policy tightening<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#industry-watch-office-take-up-and-retail-occupancy-approach-pre-pandemic-levels\">Industry Watch: Office take-up and retail occupancy approach pre-pandemic levels<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#going-public-cold-storage-firm-eyes-ipo-for-expansion\">Going Public: Cold storage firm eyes IPO for expansion<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#startup-spotlight-fast-logistics-and-cvc-invest-in-local-tech-startup\">Startup Spotlight: Fast Logistics and CVC invest in local tech startup<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside>\n<h2 id=\"macro-developments-upgrades-in-philippine-growth-forecasts-and-further-monetary-policy-tightening\">Macro Developments: Upgrades in Philippine growth forecasts and further monetary policy tightening<\/h2>\n<p><em><strong>IMF and ADB hike Philippine GDP growth projections for 2022<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Philippine central bank signals more policy tightening in August<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 id=\"industry-watch-office-take-up-and-retail-occupancy-approach-pre-pandemic-levels\">Industry Watch: Office take-up and retail occupancy approach pre-pandemic levels<\/h2>\n<p><em><strong>Metro Manila office market registers highest net absorption since the pandemic<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Retail vacancy rates seen to return to pre-pandemic levels by year-end<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 id=\"going-public-cold-storage-firm-eyes-ipo-for-expansion\">Going Public: Cold storage firm eyes IPO for expansion<\/h2>\n<p><em><strong>ORCA Cold Chain Solutions files for USD27M IPO<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 id=\"startup-spotlight-fast-logistics-and-cvc-invest-in-local-tech-startup\">Startup Spotlight: Fast Logistics and CVC invest in local tech startup<\/h2>\n<p><em><strong>Packworks successfully closes USD2M seed round<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"btn\" href=\"https:\/\/sofcpartners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/SofCap-ITP-202208.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: Macro Developments: Upgrades in Philippine growth forecasts and further monetary policy tightening Industry Watch: Office take-up and retail occupancy approach pre-pandemic levels Going Public: Cold storage firm eyes IPO for expansion Startup Spotlight: Fast Logistics and CVC invest in local tech startup Macro Developments: Upgrades in Philippine growth forecasts [&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\/446"}],"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=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sofcpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":451,"href":"https:\/\/sofcpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions\/451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sofcpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sofcpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sofcpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}