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                    [Title] => Paxys to lease Phinma bldg for call center operations
                    [Summary] => Paxys Inc., formerly Fil-Hispano Holdings Corp., has inked a deal with the Phinma Group to lease nearly half of the latter’s five-storey building in Makati for the call center operations of its wholly-owned unit Advanced Contact Solutions (ACS).


Paxys chairman Tarcisio M. Medalla said Phinma has agreed to lease out to ACS 3,200 square meters of office space in the former AsianBank headquarters along Gil Puyat Ave. in Makati. The new call center site, which is expected to begin operations next month, will add up to 600 seats to ACS’s existing capacity of 2,800 seats.

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                    [AuthorName] => Zinnia B. Dela Peña
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                    [Title] => Fil-Hispano sets record date for P300-M stock rights offer
                    [Summary] => Fil-Hispano Holdings Corp.  has set Aug. 29 as the record date  of shareholders qualified to subscribe to its stock  rights offering, estimated to raise P300 million to  bankroll its expansion program.


In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, Fil-Hispano said qualified shareholders are entitled  to buy one new share for every two shares held at P1, a deep discount to the P7.80 closing price of  its shares yesterday.


Fil-Hispano said the offering, which will be  underwritten by Asian Alliance Investment Corp., will  start on Sept. 8 and run until Sept. 16.


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                    [Title] => SEC okays Fil-Hispano’s P300-M stock rights offer
                    [Summary] => The Securities and Exchange Commission has approved the planned P300-million stock rights offer of call center firm Fil-Hispano Holdings Inc.


Under the rights offer, each stockholder is entitled to subscribe to one common share for every two shares held as of record date yet to be set by the company.  Each share will be priced at P1, a sharp discount to the current market price and from the P3.95 per share price for a secondary offer last November.


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                    [Title] => Fil-Hispano gets go-signal for P300-M rights offering for call center expansion
                    [Summary] => The Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) has given its approval to the planned rights offering of former tile maker Fil-Hispano Holdings Inc. 


In a disclosure to the PSE, Fil-Hispano said the rights offering will begin  next month subject to the completion of certain documentary requirements of securities regulators.


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                    [ArticleID] => 273978
                    [Title] => Advanced Contact Solutions completes call center expansion
                    [Summary] => Advanced Contact Solutions Inc. (ACS), a wholly—owned call center of publicly-listed Fil-Hispano Holdings Corp. (FHC), has completed the first phase of its expansion program, giving it an additional 1,800 seats or more than 50 percent of its full year target.


ACS president Victor Endaya said the additional seats bring to 2,700 the company’s total seat capacity.  "It’s a great leap for the company having set the target at 1,800 seats only in November 2004,’’ Endaya said.


                    [DatePublished] => 2005-04-15 00:00:00
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                    [Title] => BSP poises sanctions on banks for security lapses
                    [Summary] => Security lapses by banks prompted the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) to examine their systems as early as six months ago and require them to upgrade or face sanctions for failure to comply. 


Banking sources said that the BSP has threatened to impose stiff sanctions on banks that fail to comply with the directive to upgrade the surveillance and security systems of their branches nationwide. 


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                    [Title] => Lawmaker: P63 M lost to bank heists
                    [Summary] => Robberies as political fund-raisers or part of a destabilization plot?


Some P63 million has been lost to bank robbers this year, a figure that bolsters already strong suspicions that the incidents are either "fund-raising drives" of corrupt politicians for the 2004 elections or part of destabilization moves against the government, Catanduanes Rep. Joseph Santiago (NPC) said yesterday.


Santiago expressed alarm over the rash of bank heists believed to have been carried out by syndicates led by former soldiers or dismissed police personnel.


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                    [Title] => Too many banks, not enough cops
                    [Summary] => With only 228 policemen to secure 120 banks, the Parañaque City police yesterday said it would be asking the Southern Police District (SPD) for additional police personnel as a preventive measure against bank robberies.
                    [DatePublished] => 2003-09-03 00:00:00
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                    [AuthorID] => 1096905
                    [AuthorName] =>  Evelyn Macairan
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                    [Title] => It’s off to Makati for elite SAF
                    [Summary] => Eighty members of the elite Special Action Force (SAF) of the Philippine National Police (PNP) are set to be deployed to the Makati City central business district (CBD) today.


The SAF is expected to beef up the security at the country’s financial center, which is also home to the diplomatic community, following the robbery at the Citibank Center last Aug. 25.


Several major banks, embassies, and multinational companies hold office in the Makati CBD.


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                    [AuthorName] => Nikko Dizon
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                    [Title] => Gov’t: Destabilization won’t succeed; bank robbery part of plot
                    [Summary] => Destabilization by heist or other means will not work to uninstall the Arroyo administration.


The President reassured the Filipino people yesterday that the strong economic fundamentals and political stability of the country would make efforts to destabilize the government futile.


She based her reassurances on the 4.5 percent growth rate in the country’s gross national product (GNP), while neighboring countries have seen negative economic growth.


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CITIBANK CENTER

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                    [Title] => Paxys to lease Phinma bldg for call center operations
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Paxys chairman Tarcisio M. Medalla said Phinma has agreed to lease out to ACS 3,200 square meters of office space in the former AsianBank headquarters along Gil Puyat Ave. in Makati. The new call center site, which is expected to begin operations next month, will add up to 600 seats to ACS’s existing capacity of 2,800 seats.

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                    [Title] => Fil-Hispano sets record date for P300-M stock rights offer
                    [Summary] => Fil-Hispano Holdings Corp.  has set Aug. 29 as the record date  of shareholders qualified to subscribe to its stock  rights offering, estimated to raise P300 million to  bankroll its expansion program.


In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, Fil-Hispano said qualified shareholders are entitled  to buy one new share for every two shares held at P1, a deep discount to the P7.80 closing price of  its shares yesterday.


Fil-Hispano said the offering, which will be  underwritten by Asian Alliance Investment Corp., will  start on Sept. 8 and run until Sept. 16.


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                    [Title] => SEC okays Fil-Hispano’s P300-M stock rights offer
                    [Summary] => The Securities and Exchange Commission has approved the planned P300-million stock rights offer of call center firm Fil-Hispano Holdings Inc.


Under the rights offer, each stockholder is entitled to subscribe to one common share for every two shares held as of record date yet to be set by the company.  Each share will be priced at P1, a sharp discount to the current market price and from the P3.95 per share price for a secondary offer last November.


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                    [Title] => Fil-Hispano gets go-signal for P300-M rights offering for call center expansion
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In a disclosure to the PSE, Fil-Hispano said the rights offering will begin  next month subject to the completion of certain documentary requirements of securities regulators.


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                    [Title] => Advanced Contact Solutions completes call center expansion
                    [Summary] => Advanced Contact Solutions Inc. (ACS), a wholly—owned call center of publicly-listed Fil-Hispano Holdings Corp. (FHC), has completed the first phase of its expansion program, giving it an additional 1,800 seats or more than 50 percent of its full year target.


ACS president Victor Endaya said the additional seats bring to 2,700 the company’s total seat capacity.  "It’s a great leap for the company having set the target at 1,800 seats only in November 2004,’’ Endaya said.


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                    [Title] => BSP poises sanctions on banks for security lapses
                    [Summary] => Security lapses by banks prompted the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) to examine their systems as early as six months ago and require them to upgrade or face sanctions for failure to comply. 


Banking sources said that the BSP has threatened to impose stiff sanctions on banks that fail to comply with the directive to upgrade the surveillance and security systems of their branches nationwide. 


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                    [Title] => Lawmaker: P63 M lost to bank heists
                    [Summary] => Robberies as political fund-raisers or part of a destabilization plot?


Some P63 million has been lost to bank robbers this year, a figure that bolsters already strong suspicions that the incidents are either "fund-raising drives" of corrupt politicians for the 2004 elections or part of destabilization moves against the government, Catanduanes Rep. Joseph Santiago (NPC) said yesterday.


Santiago expressed alarm over the rash of bank heists believed to have been carried out by syndicates led by former soldiers or dismissed police personnel.


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                    [Title] => Too many banks, not enough cops
                    [Summary] => With only 228 policemen to secure 120 banks, the Parañaque City police yesterday said it would be asking the Southern Police District (SPD) for additional police personnel as a preventive measure against bank robberies.
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                    [Title] => It’s off to Makati for elite SAF
                    [Summary] => Eighty members of the elite Special Action Force (SAF) of the Philippine National Police (PNP) are set to be deployed to the Makati City central business district (CBD) today.


The SAF is expected to beef up the security at the country’s financial center, which is also home to the diplomatic community, following the robbery at the Citibank Center last Aug. 25.


Several major banks, embassies, and multinational companies hold office in the Makati CBD.


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                    [Title] => Gov’t: Destabilization won’t succeed; bank robbery part of plot
                    [Summary] => Destabilization by heist or other means will not work to uninstall the Arroyo administration.


The President reassured the Filipino people yesterday that the strong economic fundamentals and political stability of the country would make efforts to destabilize the government futile.


She based her reassurances on the 4.5 percent growth rate in the country’s gross national product (GNP), while neighboring countries have seen negative economic growth.


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