Many Filipinos have forgotten when and how the Philippines hooked up to the global internet. And a lot even do not know that the first Philippine link to the Internet happened at the first International E-mail conference in University of San Carlos in Cebu on March 29, 1994.
That was the same date when the Philippine Stock Exchange’s Stratus Trading System (STS) was linked with the MakTrade trading system to produce a One Price-One Market exchange. Something our young investors should at least remember. However, during these years, investing in the stock market would mean interacting with a broker either via the telephone and not online.
Fast forward 20 years, the internet has helped improve our investing journey by giving us the opportunity to buy our stocks and top up our funds by just logging online. It has also helped us establish and organize our financial literacy advocacy for Filipinos in the Philippines and abroad. For those who are not aware, the educational projects of Angat Pilipinas Coalition for Financial Literacy, together with its OFW UsapangPiso wing, are being run by Filipino volunteers from all over the world communicating mostly only via the internet and the social media. Continue reading Investing From Phoneline To Online – 20 Years of Philippine Internet