Katrina Bianca Cuaresma

Staff Writer • SEA Edition

Katrina is a journalist based in Manila. She is primarily focused on the movements in finance, banking, fintech and the economy.

11 Articles published

Stories by Katrina Bianca Cuaresma

01 May, 23

Two Philippine state banks are the perfect match for a merger. Why is one resisting?

Katrina Bianca Cuaresma

12 Apr, 23

London electrified its hackney black cabs. Can the Philippines do the same with its technicolour jeepneys?

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29 Mar, 23

‘Method to the madness’: Aboitiz’s David Hardoon on what it will take to create a ‘techglomerate’

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08 Mar, 23

With its invite-only model, UnionDigital is banking on HNIs for deposits and low-income earners for credit

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22 Feb, 23

The Philippines has a 100K nursing shortage but not for the lack of nurses

Katrina Bianca Cuaresma

01 Feb, 23

How a Philippine law meant to bridge the agricultural credit gap drives farmers and banks apart

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12 Jan, 23

Signal loss: How the Philippines’ largest telco is surviving $870M expenses that went undetected for years

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19 Dec, 22

Philippine conglomerate SMC may be late to the banking party with its US$300M bet

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30 Nov, 22

Philippine Textile Council boss Maria Isabel Ongpin has a Counterthesis: Shift to polymer currency a mistake

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21 Nov, 22

Remittance firms feel the burn as the Philippines scrambles to get off the dirty-money grey list

Katrina Bianca Cuaresma

31 Oct, 22

The Philippines’ rural banks are facing an analog-to-digital existential crisis

Katrina Bianca Cuaresma