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Bank lending expands by 11.3% in May

PDate: 7/7/2025
Content: ​Outstanding loans from universal and commercial banks (U/KBs) rose anew in May, driven both by loans to businesses and individual consumers. Preliminary data from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) show that loans from...
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Domestic liquidity grows by 5.5% in May

PDate: 7/7/2025
Content: ​Domestic liquidity (M3), or the amount of money in the economy, grew by 5.5 percent year-on-year to about ₱18.4 trillion in May, from 5.8 percent in April, according to preliminary data from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BS...
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Country’s foreign reserves rise in June 2025

PDate: 7/7/2025
Content: ​The Philippines’ gross international reserves (GIR) rose in June 2025 mainly due to foreign currency deposits by the national government with the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) and income from BSP investments.GIR grew from ...
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PH sustains growth in digital payments usage

PDate: 7/7/2025
Content: ​The Philippines continues to make headway in digital payments.The share of digital payments to total monthly retail transactions rose to 57.4 percent in terms of volume and 59.0 percent in terms of value, the Bangko Sentral ng...
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June inflation slightly higher at 1.4 percent

PDate: 7/4/2025
Content: ​Headline inflation rose slightly to 1.4 percent year-on-year in June from 1.3 percent in May, within the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’ forecast range of 1.1 to 1.9 percent for the month. Average inflation for the first six mont...
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BSP statement on online gambling

PDate: 7/3/2025
Content: ​The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) will issue a circular meant to protect users of digital platforms from risks associated with online gambling, in line with the BSP's financial consumer protection agenda and financial heal...
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Month-ahead inflation forecast for June 2025

PDate: 6/30/2025
Content: ​The BSP projects June 2025 inflation to settle within the range of 1.1 to 1.9 percent. Upward price pressures for the month are likely to be driven by higher meat and vegetable prices, elevated oil prices, and the depreciatio...
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Checkpoint #4: Berlinterop

Ethereum’s weekly All Core Developer calls are a lot to keep up with, so this "Checkpoint" series aims for high-level updates depending on what’s happening in core development. See the previous update here. This is a special edition of the series! Ki...
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Ethereum Foundation Treasury Policy

Thank you to the EFers that provided valuable input and feedback to the draft document: Bastian Aue, Vitalik Buterin, Bogdan Popa, Tomasz Stańczak, Fredrik Svantes, Yoav Weiss, Dankrad Feist, Tim Beiko, Nicolas Consigny, Nixo, Alex Stokes, Ladislaus, a...
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Checkpoint #3: June 2025

Ethereum’s weekly All Core Developer calls are a lot to keep up with, so this "Checkpoint" series aims for high-level updates roughly every 4-5 weeks, depending on what’s happening in core development. See the previous update here....
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Announcing Protocol

Ethereum stands at the edge of major breakthroughs. zkEVMs have rapidly accelerated, enabling us to rearchitect L1 to simultaneously support scale, verifiability, security and censorship-resistance. L2s are hardening, meeting users where they are, and ...
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