In this exclusive interview with Business Advantage PNG, CEO Mark Robinson reflects on BSP Financial Group’s impressive results. He also provides details of growth plans, including investments in digital channels and a major upgrade of the bank’s ATM network.
Final investment decisions on gas projects, a weaker kina and Starlink? Business Advantage PNG looks to the year ahead and considers what PNG-focused businesses can expect in the coming 12 months.
Papua New Guinea’s financial year is almost over and there are many green shoots appearing in the economy. At the same time, business needs to be ready for some significant changes in the new year.
Our readers were focused on the future in 2025, with articles on key resources projects, growth plans and the turnaround proposal for an embattled state-owned enterprise all featuring heavily in Business Advantage PNG‘s top-read articles for the year. Not surprisingly in PNG’s jubilee year, there was also high interest for coverage of Papua New Guinea’s 50th anniversary of independence.
Papua New Guinea’s 2026 National Budget, delivered last week, outlines record government spending, while keeping PNG on track to achieve a budget surplus by 2027. It also shifts the narrative “towards opportunity”, as one expert notes, with investments in key development priorities. We take a closer look at the implications for business.
Papua New Guinea’s National Banking Corporation received its commercial banking licence at the end of 2024. In this exclusive interview, CEO Paul Thornton outlines its plans to build its capital base and grow in an increasingly competitive banking market.
Gavin Wendt, Founding Director and Senior Resource Analyst for MineLife, discusses the positive outlook for Papua New Guinea’s two key export metals, copper and gold.
Sarimu Kanu, Managing Director of Kumul Minerals Holdings (KMHL), sits down for an exclusive interview with Andrew Wilkins, in which he discusses Porgera, Ok Tedi and KMHL’s plans around acquisitions, stranded resources and the building of a gold refinery in PNG.
On the eve of his departure from Papua New Guinea, the International Monetary Fund’s Resident Representative to the country, Sohrab Rafiq, reviews the impact of the IMF’s program in PNG with Andrew Wilkins.
The highly anticipated Papua LNG project is expected to reach a final investment decision in early 2026. This week, senior representatives of project lead TotalEnergies and the PNG government signalled that an FID is drawing closer.