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MAS and Philippines Central Bank Commit to Promote Data Connectivity, Info Sharing
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) have committed to work together to promote data connectivity in financial services in a joint statement. Both regulators recognise that the ability to aggregate, store, process, and transmit
Read MoreFintechnews.ph Launches Fintech Philippines Report and Map 2020
2019 saw a boom for the Philippines’ digital payments space, where e-money transactions jumped to 36% to reach PHP 760 billion in value, the strongest rise across all payments transaction types. E-money transactions growth surpassed credit card and debit card
Read MoreBSP’s Governor Diokno to Lead the Launch of Digital Retirement Account
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Governor Benjamin E. Diokno will lead the virtual launch of the Digital Personal Equity and Retirement Account (PERA), said the regulator in a media statement issued earlier today. PERA is a voluntary retirement account that
Read MoreBPO Philippines – The Fintech Outsourcing Hub
If there’s one thing fintech companies can expect from the BPO industry in the Philippines, it’s the country’s talented workforce, which can perform the whole range of front- and backend-office support for financial services. After all, this island nation wasn’t
Read MoreNearly 1.5M Underbanked Filipinos Onboarded With RCBC’s DiskarTech App
With over 2 million mobile app downloads in two months, Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC) has pushed for digital adoption, recording more than 1.43 million new accounts onboarded digitally during the lockdown. An estimated 610,000 DiskarTech basic deposit account holders
Read MoreInsurtech Platform Igloo Lands Partnership With Union Bank and Akulaku for Micro-Insurance
Igloo, Singapore-headquartered insurtech firm, announced partnerships with Union Bank of the Philippines and Indonesia’s Akulaku to offer micro-insurance policies. Akulaku is one of Indonesia’s most well-funded fintech startups who is best known for their “buy now, pay later” service. Igloo
Read MorePhilippines’ RCBC and DTI To Enable Digital Payments For Micro-Businesses
Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC) and the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has partnered to create DiskarTech’s NegosyanTech programme to digitalise community-based microenterprises in every barangay nationwide through partnership and ecosystem building. More than 1.3 million sari-sari stores (a
Read MoreRCBC’s Diskartech Reaches 1 Million Downloads
DiskarTech, powered by Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC), has reached one million downloads just 38 days from its market launch. It was also ranked second overall amongst mobile apps in the country by Google Play Store and Apple Store and
Read MorePhilippines Central Bank Joins Digital Currency Race
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), the Philippines’ central bank, has created a committee to look at the feasibility and policy implications of issuing its own digital currency, governor Benjamin E. Diokno said on July 29. “We have to first look
Read MoreRCBC’s Diskartech Tops Google Play’s Free Finance Apps, Surpassing Gcash and PayMaya
DiskarTech, Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation’s (RCBC) virtual bank has claimed the top spot among free finance apps in Google Play for Android users in the first month since its launch. As for users of iOS devices, DiskarTech ranks second among
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