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How to Make Credit Work Harder for You




As the Philippine economy continues to expand year on year, the personal credit market has also become much friendlier to first-time borrowers. For many, this means that utang is no longer an ugly thing that has to be avoided at all costs. Mil...
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Digital Wallet
1 Sep 2025

BSP advisory on VASPs

PDate: 8/29/2025
Content: ​The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) reminds the public to exercise caution, conduct due diligence, and refrain from transacting with unlicensed/unauthorized virtual asset service providers (VASPs).VASPs are entities that fa...
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News
29 Aug 2025

BSP extends moratorium on new licenses for VASPs

PDate: 8/29/2025
Content: ​The Monetary Board of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has approved the extension of the moratorium on granting new licenses for virtual asset service providers (VASPs) for an indefinite period.The extension of the morat...
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News
29 Aug 2025

Month-ahead inflation forecast for August 2025

PDate: 8/29/2025
Content: ​​The BSP projects August 2025 inflation to settle within the range of 1.0 to 1.8 percent. Upward price pressures for the month are likely to arise from higher costs of fruits, vegetables, and fish due to unfavorable weather c...
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News
29 Aug 2025

Protocol Update 003 — Improve UX

A few months ago, we announced a renewed focus of Protocol on three strategic initiatives: Scale L1, Scale blobs, Improve UX. Following previous updates on Scale L1 and Scale blobs, this note relates to our “Improve UX” track, and its mission: **Seaml...
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Cryptocurrency
29 Aug 2025

BSP launches online credit risk database for SMEs

PDate: 8/22/2025
Content: The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), in partnership with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), has launched the Credit Risk Database Philippines Web-based Scoring System (CRDPh System). It aims to help financial...
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News
26 Aug 2025

Market participants convene for PSE STAR 2025 mid-year edition

The Philippine Stock Exchange, Inc. (PSE) gathered stock market participants and stakeholders to the mid-year edition of the PSE STAR (Strengthening Access and Reach): Investor Day 2025 featuring 11 publicly listed companies (PLCs). From August 19 to 20, top executives and officers of select listed firms tackled their first half 2025 financial results and growth…
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News
22 Aug 2025

Protocol Update 002 – Scale Blobs

Following up from Protocol Update 001, we’d like to introduce our approach to blob scaling. The L1 serves as a robust foundation for L2 systems to scale Ethereum, and a necessary component of secure L2 solutions is data availability provided by the L1....
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Cryptocurrency
22 Aug 2025

PSE net income up 27% in 1H 2025

The Philippine Stock Exchange, Inc. (PSE) reported a 27.6 percent increase in its net income for the first half of the year to Php 508.03 million from Php 398.02 million in the same period last year. Operating revenues surged by 81.7 percent to Php 1.31 billion from Php 722.75 million, as trading-related revenues grew by…
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News
20 Aug 2025

Advisory on entities misusing the BSP’s name

PDate: 8/20/2025
Content: ​The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) advises the public to refrain from dealing with individuals or entities that falsely claim to be affiliated with or supervised by the BSP. The BSP reminds the public that its personn...
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News
20 Aug 2025

Trillion Dollar Security – Phase 2

Since announcing the Trillion Dollar Security project, we have surveyed the ecosystem to understand which improvements are highest priority to every layer of the Ethereum stack and community. Now it is time to begin the next phase of this initiative: ...
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Cryptocurrency
20 Aug 2025