The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP)-led Financial Stability Coordination Council (FSCC) has shifted the way they assess, review and forecast systemic risks because the global COVID-19 pandemic has changed consumer preferences and market risk behaviors, and using “older norms” and...
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has drafted the guidelines for the liquidity risk management of Islamic banks and Islamic banking units (IBUs) that are specific to these banks’ operations. Primarily, the BSP expects IBUs which are units or part of a conventional bank to have separate...
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) is conducting its first Consumer Payments Survey (CPS) this quarter in aid of enhancing rules on digital payments to increase its use by as much as 50 percent of all retail payments in three years. In a statement, the BSP said the results of the survey will...
Bank-channelled remittances totaled $21.886 billion as of end-September, down 1.4 percent year-on-year from $22.187 billion, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said. BSP Governor Benjamin E. Diokno said the decline in remittances has narrowed and “better than original forecast of five...
Asian central banks and financial regulators agreed to focus on managing systemic risk to ensure financial stability during this COVID-19 pandemic. Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Governor Benjamin E. Diokno, who co-chaired the Financial Stability Board’s (FCB) Regional Consultative Group for...
The 28-day Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) bills auction yielded lower rate of 1.9621 percent, but it still remained oversubscribed with full P60 billion offer awarded. Banks’ total tenders reached P88.90 billion which was 1.48 times the offer volume of P60 billion. The average rate fell by...
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has suspended its operations and transactions of its payments and settlements, and the trading of the peso-US dollar, among other things, due to typhoon “Ulysses.” The BSP also announced late in the morning of Thursday that it will not be receiving cash...
With banks’ higher provisioning requirements, the industry continue to have lower cumulative net profits as of end-September of P126.78 billion, down 25.93 percent from same period last year of P171.16 billion, based on Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) data. The pandemic-hit banking system...
The central bank’s term deposit facility (TDF) auction received P622.44 billion in tenders this week versus offer of P480 billion. Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Deputy Governor Francisco G. Dakila Jr. noted the continued strong demand for the TDF which is only offered at 7-day and 14-day...
Big banks’ lending growth further weakened to just 2.8 percent in September from an already low of 4.7 percent in August, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said. Domestic liquidity or M3, in the meantime, expanded by 12.3 percent year-on-year to P13.5 trillion in September, a slower pace of...
The central bank will no longer limit its rediscounting facility through a budget and instead adopted an “open regime” principle as a monetary policy tool to infuse liquidity to a pandemic-hit market. The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) used to have a specific budget for its Peso Rediscount...
Debt payments of the national government ballooned in September after the Duterte administration repaid the bridge loan extended by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) for the coronavirus response. Data from the Bureau of the Treasury showed the government’s total debt servicing soared by 664...
