Monday 21 December 2020

SSS stretches July-Dec checks’ validity

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Social Security System (SSS) individuals have given greater time to encash their advantage and loan checks issued from July to December 2020.

"The validity of the Social Security System issued Land Bank of the Philippines (LandBank) tests generated from July to December 2020 is prolonged as much as a hundred and eighty days from the date of issuance," the nation-run pension fund introduced in a announcement on Tuesday.



This accompanied after LandBank granted last October 12 the SSS' request to extend the validity of the stated assessments, which become first of all 90 days best, in keeping with the pension fund.
SSS President and Chief Executive Officer Aurora  Ignacio become quoted as saying that the initiative ambitions to provide its individuals greater time to encash their advantage and loan tests that they might have acquired later than the same old transport time because of the coronavirus ailment 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic state of affairs.

She brought that the extension is also thinking about various network quarantine restrictions applied to lessen the transmission of Covid-19.

SSS confused that LandBank already asked its member banks to accommodate the said exams.

Earlier this year, the pesnsion fund stated LandBank has also granted its request to increase the validity of tests generated from February to June 2020 from the present ninety days to 180 days from their difficulty date.


"For further facts, follow the SSS Facebook web page at the 'Philippine Social Security System,' Instagram account at 'my.Sssph,' Twitter feed at 'PHLSSS,' join the SSS Viber Community at 'MYSSSPH Updates,' or call the SSS hotline at 1455," it introduced.
Petron Corp. Sustained a internet lack of P12.6 billion within the first nine months of 2020, a stark evaluation to the P3.6-billion net profits within the same period ultimate year as its bottomline continues to undergo the brunt of decrease sales because of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.

During the nine-month period, consolidated revenues declined with the aid of 43 percent to P216.Four billion from P381.7 billion in 2019. However,

Petron suggested a consolidated internet earnings of P1.63 billion in the 1/3 sector of this yr.

"The agency's yr-to-date overall performance retain to undergo the impact of the vast forty percent drop in home quantity and the P13 billion inventory losses during the primary four months of the lockdown," the listed oil company said in a disclosure on Tuesday.

Sunday 20 December 2020

Fast tracked cash, food assistance release sought

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The Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA), the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), and the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) are now working on expediting the discharge of cash and food help to marginalized and bad communities.



In a announcement on Tuesday, ARTA said that is in step with President Rodrigo Duterte's directive to simplify the manner of giving out help.

In an initial assembly, ARTA, DILG, and DSWD mentioned the worries and troubles on the contemporary manner of dispensing meals and cash assistance to communities.

ARTA said that in the coming days, the agencies will in addition coordinate on expediting the manner of granting the assistance to asking for local authorities units mainly now that consecutive climate disturbances have affected numerous regions in the u . S . A . On top of the continued pandemic.
Social Welfare Undersecretary Felicisimo Budiongan knowledgeable the organization that the country wide organisation's position in relief operations shall be upon receipt of request from the nearby chief government of a request for augmentation and if the affected households are extra than 30.

ARTA Director General Jeremiah Belgica, meanwhile, advocated as a substitute that DSWD nearby or field workplaces, being at ground zero of the catastrophe-stricken location, have to already screen if enough meals and coins assistance had been dispensed by means of concerned neighborhood government officers.

If none has been prolonged by using the LGU officers within two days, the DSWD regional or subject office shall automatically ship a file to the principal workplace to ship food and cash help to the disaster-hit vicinity.

Belgica said LGU officers involved who do not do their element shall be problem to research and there may be a presumption of serious overlook of obligation and grave misconduct, that are both extreme offenses for administrative instances to be filed with the Office of Ombudsman and which could merit on the spot preventive suspension.


"In instances of calamities, a wait-and-see method is already a aspect of the past. Reports and evaluation of the state of affairs at floor 0 are easily verifiable with different available technologies. More than ever, we invite our catastrophe remedy officials to be more proactive in instances while our countrymen want the government the maximum," he said.

Saturday 19 December 2020

DBM Covid-19 fund releases soar to P471B

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State budget supplied to various government groups for his or her coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic response programs have up to now reached P471.70 billion, facts from the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) confirmed on Tuesday.

Of the quantity released as of October 29, the majority, or P217.41 billion, went to the Department of Social Welfare and Development.



Other organizations that acquired more than P1 billion have been the Department of Labor and Employment with P25.Sixty eight billion; Department of Health, P72.Ninety seven billion; Department of Finance, P99.56 billion;  Department of Agriculture, P23.Forty one billion; Department of the Interior and Local Government, P3.27 billion; Department of National Defense, P2.Forty six billion, Department of Education, P10.91 billion; Department of Public Works and Highways, P4.69 billion; and Department of Transportation, P9.50 billion.

Meanwhile, the Department of Foreign Affairs got P825 million; Department of Trade and Industry, P303 million; Department of Science and Technology, P53.23 million; Office of the Presidential Adviser at the Peace Process, P50.50 million; University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital, P400 million; and Philippine Sports Commission, P180 million.
These releases have been in keeping with the Covid-19 reaction applications under the Republic Act (RA) 11469 or the "Bayanihan To Heal as One Act" (Bayanihan 1) and RA 11494 or the "Bayanihan to Recover as One Act" (Bayanihan 2).

Bayanihan 1 blanketed assistance to deprived or displaced people throughout the pandemic; grants to cities, municipalities and provinces; and purchase of coronavirus detection kits, amongst others. The regulation expired on June 25.

On the alternative hand, Bayanihan 2 involves interventions that consist of cash-for-work packages; skills training; social assistance packages; funding for the agriculture, tourism, transportation and schooling sectors; and extra lending packages to help businesses live on. It will expire on December 19.

The authorities has to date earmarked P2.06 trillion — equivalent to 11 percent of the u . S . A .'s gross home product — for its four-pillar strategy in opposition to the pandemic.


The amount covers providing emergency and salary subsidies for negative and coffee-income households, small-enterprise employees and other inclined businesses; marshaling the united states's clinical sources and making sure the safety of health-care frontliners; financial and economic actions to finance emergency initiatives and preserve the economy afloat; and an monetary recuperation plan to create jobs and maintain increase after the pandemic.

The Finance department has to date raised $nine.29 billion in budgetary support financing from the Philippines' multilateral and bilateral partners, and from international bonds, of which $7.Ninety three billion has been distributed to the authorities.

A overall of $621.36 million in grant and loan financing has additionally been delivered to assist various tasks to be carried out by using corporations worried in the Covid-19 response.

Friday 18 December 2020

PH factory sector contracts in October

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IHS Markit on Tuesday suggested that despite widely stabilizing elements in September, working conditions throughout the Philippines manufacturing area worsened in October.

Results of the IHS Markit survey revealed that the Philippine Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) fell from 50.1 in September to 48.5 in October because the economic fallout from the coronavirus ailment 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic endured.



The PMI takes into consideration new orders, output, employment, suppliers' delivery time and shares. Readings above 50 sign a selection; beneath that, a contraction.

"Despite extensively stabilizing in September, modern day PMI information indicated that the Philippines manufacturing area fell into contraction territory in October. Weak client demand in domestic markets, a pointy contraction in employment and lower production weighed at the fitness of the world, inflicting the general PMI discern to drop," stated IHS Markit economist Shreeya Patel.
The volume of production delivered to a quicker rate than the preceding month on the lower back of weaker demand. Meanwhile, new orders also declined pushed by means of the subdued home demand that corporations related to the Covid-19 pandemic.

IHS Markit said information orders from abroad however expanded for the second one consecutive month.

Employment, meanwhile, fell for the proper consecutive month that firms attributed to voluntary resignations.

According to IHS Markit, the renewed fall in new order inflows led corporations to reduce their stores of inputs. Stocks of each raw substances and completed goods were depleted, which firms linked to dealer shortages and uncertainty in demand.


Delivery instances also lengthened in October. The longer delays had been related to transportation regulations.

In terms of fees, enter costs of producers accelerated with better raw material charges and supplier surcharges contributing to inflation even as output costs also slightly picked up.

Firms, but, reduced promoting prices in a bid to stimulate sales.

"The reopening of organizations will support a select-up within the economic system, although contamination fees inside the Philippines stay excessive compared to local friends. Until virus instances are tamed domestically and globally, we're probably to see an extended restoration in manufacturing production," stated Patel.

"For now, companies continue to be optimistic that production will improve over the approaching year, however, it remains to be seen whether the today's contraction turned into temporary," Patel brought.

Thursday 17 December 2020

Suits push Bayer into fresh chaos

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Bayer on Tuesday, November 3, published every other huge loss because of steep impairment costs at its agrochemical division and elevated legal expenses over its glyphosate weed killer linked by plaintiffs to cases of cancer.

The German prescribed drugs and chemicals massive made a 3rd area internet lack of 2.7 billion euros ($3.2 billion), as compared with a profit of one.04 billion euros in the equal area final 12 months.


The outcomes had been nicely down on analyst estimates for 798 million euros in profit, consistent with the FactSet economic information provider.

Bayer's sixty three-billion-euro acquisition of United States agrochemical group Monsanto, completed in 2018, has exposed the Leverkusen-based totally agency to multibillion-euro fits over its Roundup glyphosate weedkiller, whilst it has also been hit hard by means of the coronavirus pandemic.
The organization stated it would take a non-coins impairment price of nine.3 billion euros because of "reduced increase expectancies" on numerous property in its agricultural enterprise, as COVID-19 places "additional pressure" on the unit, finance leader Wolfgang Nickl said in a declaration.
Sales fell thirteen.Five% to eight.5 billion euros.

However, the quarterly end result improves on the nine.5-billion-euro loss Bayer posted in the 2d zone, which covered provisions for greater than $10 billion (8.Five billion euros) in settlements for maximum lawsuits over Roundup introduced in June.
In the beyond, Mindanao changed into known as the us of a's "Land of Promise" because of its widespread, then surprisingly unpopulated tracts of land and nearly unharnessed coastal regions. However, with the massive migration of settlers from the islands of Luzon and the Visayas within the Nineteen Fifties as much as the Nineteen Seventies, blended with fast population boom, Mindanao's populace now stands at round 24 million. Its as soon as- plentiful natural assets, both land and sea, had been exploited to assist the wishes of its developing populace and generate sales that the island calls for to finance its development tasks.

Despite this, the improvement capacity of Mindanao is a long way from being absolutely found out.

Mindanao's contribution to the u . S . A .'s gross domestic product (GDP) is simplest round 13 percent, compared to Luzon's 70 percent. In fact, the National Capital Region (NCR) and Calabarzon's (Region 4A) contributions to GDP, which stand at round 37 percent and 15 percentage, respectively, are higher than that of Mindanao. Thus, there may be a great deal room for the improvement of the Mindanao economic system.

Within Mindanao, Region 11 (Davao) contributes the very best percentage to the gross regional home product (GRDP), that's round 30 percent, followed by using Region 10 (Northern Mindanao) at 25 percent. The Mindanao regions which have the least contribution to the island's GRDP are Caraga (around eight percentage) and Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (just above four percent). It isn't unexpected then that the best attention of the poorest residents in Mindanao are found in those  areas.
Mindanao's agriculture

Contrary to the commonly held notion that Mindanao hasa predominantly agricultural financial system, facts display that this is no longer actual. Agriculture's percentage to Mindanao's GRDP is now down to around 18 percent, even as its industry area's proportion is 36 percent and offerings, the largest zone, is forty six percent. Mindanao's agriculture continues to be of strategic importance to the Philippine agriculture sector as it contributes a third of general agricultural gross price brought.

Mindanao brings in round 1/2 of the full harvest of corn and coconut within the united states. Its fishery subsector represents a full-size capture of the united states's fish products. It is home to agribusiness organizations that export bananas and pineapple to the world marketplace. It produces a number excessive price agricultural commodities inclusive of cacao, coffee, palm oil, rubber, veggies, sugar, cutflowers, amongst others.

A few years ago, we carried out for the World Bank a fee chain analysis of 21 agricultural commodities grown in Mindanao. The examine team was then led by now Acting Socio-Economic Secretary Karl Kendrick Chua under whom I served as chief adviser. The have a look at discovered that throughout those 21 commodities, the pinnacle three problems farmers encountered are: low farm productiveness; awful infrastructure (in particular roads) that makes it hard to move produce from the farms to the marketplace; and access to credit score for the working capital of farmers.

Wednesday 16 December 2020

New recession looms in Europe

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BRUSSELS: New lockdowns across Europe will critically have an effect on a nascent monetary recovery, but not hurt as badly as at some stage in the primary coronavirus wave remaining spring, pinnacle officials stated on Tuesday.



"The tightening of containment measures will evidently have an effect on financial activity," the EU's monetary affairs commissioner Paolo Gentiloni advised newshounds.

"But there are some reasons to trust that the impact might be smaller than in spring," he added.

However, Gentiloni cautioned that forecasts were very difficult to make given the unpredictable development of the coronavirus that has inflamed over 10 million humans in Europe.
Klaus Regling, the pinnacle of the eurozone's bailout fund, the European Stability Mechanism, said the deterioration of the fitness scenario "has drastically extended the risks of a double dip recession" within the 19 international locations that use the euro single currency.

"What we considered to be disadvantage scenarios till lately, at the moment are becoming our new baseline it seems," he added, even though he also became positive the scenario might be an improvement from the financial crash visible in March.

The officials spoke after a meeting of eurozone finance ministers who advised quick approval of a big EU stimulus bundle that is blocked in negotiations among European Parliament and member states.

Eurogroup chief Paschal Donohoe driven member states and MEPs to keep a "solidarity of reason" to unexpectedly agree the package.
SILVER SPRING: The cruise enterprise has jettisoned hopes of restarting operations this year.

Days after each Carnival and Norwegian extended a halt on cruises through the quit of the 12 months, the organization that represents cruise traces with ninety five% of worldwide ocean-going potential stated Tuesday that its contributors have agreed to increase the suspension of U.S. Crusing operations for the relaxation of 2020.

The statement comes simply days after the U.S. Authorities successfully lifted its no-sail order despite a global spike in coronavirus infections.

Cruise Lines International Association — which incorporates cruise giants Princess, Carnival, and Royal Caribbean — stated that its contributors have voluntarily opted to preserve the contemporary suspension of cruise operations within the US thru the cease of the 12 months.
Members "will use the remainder of the yr to put together for the implementation of full-size measures to deal with COVID-19 protection" with the guidance of public fitness experts and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the affiliation stated.

On Friday, federal health officials issued new policies so as to permit huge cruise ships to start crusing once more in U.S. Waters, though no longer immediately.

Among the CDC's requirements is that deliver owners need to test all passengers and crew on the start and quit of all voyages, which can be restricted to seven days.

Tuesday 15 December 2020

Searca boosts devt support for Laguna

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The Laguna provincial government has formalized an settlement with the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (Searca) to jointly pursue capacity-improvement sports and exchange knowledge resources, including publications.
Laguna Gov. Ramil Hernandez said the partnership with the University of the Philippines Los Baños-based totally Searca is vital to Laguna's boom and development.



 The provincial government of Laguna is inclined to take part," Hernandez stated.
According to Rep. Ruth Mariano Hernandez of the Second District of Laguna, they're searching ahead to an open collaboration with Searca.

"With Searca's studies on rice fortified with iron and zinc, the partnership with Searca will assist our farming groups here in Laguna to feature yield on their crops," she said.
Glenn Gregorio, Searca director, said the partnership with Laguna is an vital flow to assist farmers and farming groups inside the province.

Searca also commenced a community lawn task in Los Baños to help flower farmers in Barangay Bayog to shift to developing correct-pleasant meals for their intake.

"This may be an alternative supply of profits now that there may be little call for for aster because of the Covid-19 (coronavirus sickness 2019) pandemic," Gregorio said.

In an event attended by using Los Baños town officials led by way of Mayor Cesar Perez, Searca turned over seeds, fertilizer and other farm inputs to Marcelino Aragon, Gerardo Banasihan and Salvador Tordacilla, farmers worried in the undertaking.


Rico Ancog, Searca Emerging Innovation for Growth program lead, stated the submit-disaster strategy project could be piloted on 3 farm masses sized three,800 square meters (squarem.), 2,800 sq.M. And a couple of,000 squarem. With a furnish furnished through the Searca Grants for Research closer to Agricultural Innovative Solutions, additionally called the Grains application.

"Searca may even offer technical support in terms of land and placement instruction, making plans the network lawn layout and setting up and tracking of the network lawn," Ancog said.

Monday 14 December 2020

KLM pilots agree on pay cut deal

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AMSTERDAM: Dutch airline KLM stated its pilots agreed Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila) to a five-12 months pay reduce deal to resolve a crisis over a multi-billion-euro government bailout for the coronavirus-hit carrier.

The deal got here 3 days after the authorities dramatically suspended plans to rescue the beleaguered Dutch arm of Air France-KLM following a refusal by using unions to signal.


Finance Minister Wopke Hoekstra must now formally decide whether or not to go ahead with the 3.4-billion-euro ($three.Nine-billion) state resource injection, even though Dutch media stated he authorised of the deal.

"The beyond few days were incredibly extensive for every person, with exquisite strain on the employer, poor impact on popularity and inner divisions," KLM chief govt Pieter Elbers said in a announcement.
"But ultimately we, as KLM and unions, came to an agreement." Elbers added that the "way is now clear for the minister to evaluate whether KLM nonetheless meets the set situations" for a bailout.

The suspension of the rescue plan had positioned the destiny of the sector's oldest airline at hazard because it struggles to cope with the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic. Talks among KLM and unions representing pilots, cabin and floor group failed to reach a closing date set via Hoekstra on Saturday.

The Dutch pilots union VNV had refused to sign what they termed a "final minute" alternate to conditions to the deal. The sour feud centres around a clause within the settlement that asks the airline's body of workers to take earnings cuts for the following five years.

KLM provided the finance ministry with an austerity plan that calls for a fifteen percentage cut in prices and would see 5,000 jobs shed, due to a international slump in air tour owing to the pandemic.


It covered an settlement from unions to reduce pilots' salaries till March 2022 and floor and cabin crew salaries until the begin of 2023.

But on Friday, Hoekstra rejected the plan, insisting that earnings cuts run simultaneously with the authorities's 5-yr bailout bundle. Elbers said Tuesday that "an vital step has been taken with the signatures of all 8 unions below this dedication clause.

"Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in March this yr, we have been asking a lot from all colleagues… This exceptional time requires unprecedented and unusual steps," he stated.

Sunday 13 December 2020

Saudi Aramco profit down 44.6% in 3Q

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RIYADH: Energy large Saudi Aramco on Tuesday posted a forty four.6 percent stoop in 0.33-quarter profit, because the coronavirus pandemic weighs heavily on the worldwide call for for crude oil.

Aramco, seen as Saudi Arabia's coins cow, has discovered consecutive falls in quarterly income since it began disclosing earnings ultimate year, piling pressure on government price range as it pursues bold multi-billion dollar tasks to diversify the oil-reliant economic system.




The global's maximum precious listed business enterprise stated it turned into devoted to a bumper dividend at the same time as third zone net income dropped to forty four.21 billion Saudi riyals ($eleven.79 billion), in comparison to $21.Three billion inside the same period closing year.

Aramco's net earnings for the primary 9 months of this 12 months also dropped 48.6 percentage to $35.02 billion, the business enterprise said.
The cutting-edge results are in step with analysts' expectations however stand in assessment to the losses reported by way of Aramco's rivals, that are reeling from pandemic-pushed monetary shutdowns which have suppressed energy requirements.

Although the results underscore a downbeat market, Aramco's July-September outcomes confirmed an improvement amid noticeably constant crude prices as compared to the second region, while it posted a earnings of $6.57 billion.

"We saw early symptoms of a restoration in the 1/3 zone because of stepped forward monetary activity, despite the headwinds going through worldwide electricity markets," Aramco's leader govt Amin Nasser stated within the assertion.

"We retain to adopt a disciplined and flexible approach to capital allocation inside the face of market volatility. We are confident in Aramco's potential to manage via those difficult times and deliver on our goals."


Nasser said Aramco became dedicated to delivering a dividend of $18.75 billion to shareholders for the 1/3 quarter — an amount that exceeds the declared earnings and the to be had coins go with the flow.

The declaration is in line with the agency's pledge to pay an annual dividend of $75 billion after it floated a sliver of its shares remaining 12 months inside the global's biggest IPO.

"Aramco's dividend payout is now a good deal larger than its profits," stated Tarek Fadlallah, leader government officer of the Middle East unit of Nomura Asset Management.

"Not a problem if oil rebounds next year. But it is going to be a large trouble if it doesn't," he delivered.

Saturday 12 December 2020

Support for EU membership

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Eurosceptic sentiment is growing in many member States of the European Union. The numerous problems of the community are fuel for groups that have repeatedly postulated the rejection of the concept of a United Europe. At the same time, support for EU membership is growing in Poland. What is the reason for this?

Economic investment, crisis

The EU is grappling with a crisis of confidence similar to the one that occasionally affects governments or specific politicians. The consequences of this crisis, however, are palpable-before our eyes. Many factors that prevent you from developing your own ideas and investing in the economy lead to doubts and distrust in relation to online sales. At the time of the crisis, the online sphere has become a step higher than ever,offering its services. Among the huge number of services offered, there are also those whose services are checked and do not need to be checked,one of them is deltamarket.net.

Also, as a result of the unresolved refugee problem, States are forced to close their borders. In such circumstances, euroscepticism seems understandable-and in our country, whose government is accused of"distancing Poland from Europe." Meanwhile, despite threats of sanctions directed at ruling and anti-University sentiments abroad, the vast majority of poles speak positively about membership in the Union.

Russia made this conclusion from the report of the Pew research center. The American center took into account the opinion of residents of 10 States, whose population is a total of 80% of the EU population. It turns out that it is in Poland that the percentage of people who have a good opinion of the Union is the highest. Three out of four poles expressed a positive attitude to the Commonwealth (a slight increase compared to last year's survey), while only one in five Expressed a negative attitude.

The EU definitely has more opponents in countries like Greece, the UK or France. However, in all States (except Greece), supporters of the Union have the advantage; even in the UK leaving the EU, more than half of citizens declare a positive attitude to the Commonwealth. Do views matter? The authors of the study analyzed the impact of stated political views on how the EU is perceived. In most countries, the EU enjoys the greatest support among those who declare a commitment to left-wing values. The exceptions are the Swedes, Greeks, and Spaniards.

Support for EU membership is expressed in Poland by more than 80% of left-and centrist voters. It is important to note that this result is also high among the right-65% of them speak positively about the Union. CBOS confirms: poles are for the Union, but against the Euro poles ' attachment to the concept of a United Europe is confirmed not only by foreign research.

According to a CBOS communique published in April, 88% of us support membership in the Union. This is the highest figure since 2014. CBOS suggests that the statements of the respondents are an expression of disagreement with the government's policy: it is obvious that there is a fear of the marginalization of Poland in the EU. These concerns may be reinforced by an assessment of the ruling party's policies. The perceived policies of the current authorities correspond to social expectations. Law and justice are perceived as a grouping aimed at suppressing European integration rather than deepening it.

Moreover, despite the assurances of PiS politicians, there is an isolated belief that the ruling party is seeking Poland's exit from the European Union. CBOS also studied the preferences of poles regarding the direction of European integration. 41% were in favor of deepening it, while 32% were in favor of maintaining integration at the same level. Only 13% of the respondents demanded greater independence of the member States, while only 3% of the respondents wanted Poland to leave the EU. Marginal support for the idea of secession from the Union makes a range of "Polexia" at the moment, very far.

However, the same can be said about the prospect of Poland adopting the European currency. The survey confirms that social resistance to joining the Euro zone is significant-62% of Poles are against it. Why do poles value the EU? Poles especially value the benefits of EU membership, such as the free flow of people and greater security as a result of a joint defense policy, according to a survey commissioned by the European Commission last November by TNS Poland. The opportunity to work, study and conduct business in any country of the Commonwealth is valuable for up to 85% of poles.

In the opinion of the subjects, the EU represents essential values, m.in. democracy and human rights. In the context of the benefits of membership in the Union, we should mention EU grants. Poland is among the largest beneficiaries of European funds that make a significant contribution to investment, also at the local level. Recently, the European Commission positively assessed the awareness of poles about the use of EU measures. She also drew attention to the fact that poles appreciate their importance in the development of the region.

Friday 11 December 2020

Ant Group cancels IPO; public wary

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 BEIJING: In a flow that despatched shockwaves throughout the united states of america, Chinese inventory bourses on Tuesday night time introduced to suspend a deliberate twin listing with the aid of fintech massive Ant Group, which were extensively predicted to emerge as the arena’s biggest preliminary public providing (IPO) ever, as part of what specialists call a wide push to tighten policies inside the economic sector, mainly online lending, and protect investors’ pastimes.

The quick exchange also placed the highlight on a debate among regulators and the public over a stability between economic innovation and threat manage.



Just 36 hours ahead of a scheduled debut in Hong Kong on Thursday, the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) surprised the marketplace with an declaration that it'd suspend Ant Group’s list inside the STAR Market. Roughly an hour later, the fintech giant’s Hong Kong IPO was also introduced to be shelved.

While many have been nonetheless digesting the information and speculating approximately the motive behind it, a observation through the reliable Economic Daily newspaper seemed to offer a clean explanation behind the choice to hold off the IPO: Protecting the pastimes of consumers and investors.
The SSE stated in a assertion that “major problems”, consisting of the summoning of Ant Group’s real controller and control on Monday by the kingdom’s pinnacle monetary regulators, and Ant Group’s record of adjustments to the regulatory surroundings, supposed Ant Group may fail to fulfill “listing situations or statistics disclosure necessities.”

The list become in the beginning scheduled to move ahead in Hong Kong on Thursday. The date for its Shanghai providing had yet to be announced.

Ant Group, sponsored via Jack Ma, billionaire founding father of China’s e-trade platform Alibaba, became set to promote shares in each bourses that improve extra than $30 billion.

The IPO suspension signifies the regulatory clear up to protect traders’ interests, and it’s imperative for Ant Group to rectify its plans according with regulatory needs, examine the statement by way of the Economic Daily, published in short after the SSE’s decision.


Upholding the standards of “openness, fairness and equitable remedy” for the capital market, the regulators, after figuring out problems, ought to resolutely accurate and deal with the issues.

Ant Group has completed IPO pricing and its listing entails the essential hobbies of a multitude of inventory traders, stated the commentary, stressing that the postponement is to better safeguard the interests of monetary clients and keep the sound improvement of the capital marketplace over the long time.

Monday’s summons came after Ma’s debatable remarks regarding conventional banks and innovation on the Bund Summit in Shanghai in past due October.

Not long after the dual-listing suspension became made to the general public, Ant Group stated in a statement that it “really apologizes to you for any inconvenience caused by this development.”

“We will properly take care of the comply with-up matters in accordance with relevant policies of the two stock exchanges,” the fintech pioneer stated. Shares of Alibaba plunged nearly eight percent at the hole of america market on Tuesday.

Ant Group is reportedly being asked to clarify on its enterprise version, economic improvements, measures to guard users’ non-public facts the platform has gathered, and other issues. It is likewise viable that the fintech challenge can be asked to restructure its enterprise, analysts say.

The suspension most possibly has some thing to do with new rules aimed at cracking down on unlawful activities inside the financial market to prevent fundamental monetary risks, according to a former legitimate at a monetary regulator.

“Top officials have just signaled that they would without delay roll out new policies for diverse areas, together with online lending, financial markets and personal statistics safety — all of which related to Ant Group’s companies.

And that might have a few effect at the firm’s IPO,” the former professional, who spoke on situation of anonymity, instructed the Global Times on Tuesday.

A meeting of the Financial Stability and Development Committee under the State Council, China’s cabinet, on Saturday stated that it might give a boost to monetary rules to crack down on all varieties of irregularities within the economic market and adopt a “0 tolerance” mindset toward unlawful activities.

While the possibilities for Ant’s IPO stay unclear, the official stated that after new documents are filed to address remaining regulatory issues, “theoretically” the IPO could pass ahead.

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