The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the central bank have approved the merger of the nation’s two largest payment and clearing operators, creating a unified entity tasked with driving growth in digital transactions in the country. BancNet Inc. and the Philippine Clearing House Corp....
State-run Land Bank of the Philippines (Landbank) has cut its InstaPay transfer fee for person-to-person (P2P) transactions to ₱8 from ₱15 as it moves to lower the cost of everyday digital banking and expand access to cashless financial services. Taking effect on Thursday, May 21, the new fee...
Metropolitan Bank & Trust Co. (Metrobank), the country’s second-largest private lender, doubled its daily transaction limit for InstaPay transfers to ₱100,000, effective April 22, as the industry races to capture a larger share of the country’s burgeoning digital payments market. In a...
As part of Chinabank’s 105th anniversary celebration, Chinabank recently launched its new “Take 5 this 105” promo, a limited-time offer that reduces the InstaPay inter-bank transfer fee from an already industry best ₱10.00 to just ₱5.00. The promotion, which runs from October 1 to...
The Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) has announced a standardized ₱15 service fee for all inter-institution cash-in transactions made via InstaPay, effective Oct. 1. In a statement, the Ayala-led bank said the new fee will apply to all cash-in transfers, including those sent to popular...
Digital payment transactions via PESONet and InstaPay increased by 51.5 percent to ₱2 trillion in June this year, from ₱1.32 trillion in the same month last year, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) reported. This represents a ₱680-billion increase from June 2024, according to the BSP data....
Nearly three months after launching a promotional ₱10 transaction fee, Ayala-led Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) has decided to keep the lower fee as a permanent feature for interbank fund transfers (IBFT) carried out via InstaPay, due to strong customer demand. The BPI has announced in a...
Digital payment transactions via PESONET and Instapay increased by 31.2 percent to ₱1.85 trillion in April, from ₱1.41 trillion in the same month last year. This is equivalent to a ₱440-billion increase from April 2024, according to the latest Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) data....
Digital payment transactions via PESONet and InstaPay increased by nearly 45 percent to ₱1.85 trillion in March from ₱1.28 trillion in the same month last year. This is equivalent to a ₱570 billion increase from March 2024, according to the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) data. Similarly,...
Digital payment transactions via PESONet and InstaPay increased by over 34 percent to ₱1.65 trillion in Febraury from ₱1.23 trillion in the same month last year. This is equivalent to a ₱420 billion increase from February 2024, according to the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) data. However,...
The Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) changed on Feb. 13 how its customers load their GCash and Maya accounts through its app. Instead of directly topping them up, they now have to use the "Transfer to Another Bank" option. This might seem like an extra step, and it also comes with an additional...
Inter-bank network BancNet's switched transactions soared to over two billion last year, reflecting a 41 percent increase driven by the continued popularity of digital fund transfers and payments. According to BancNet, the electronic payments network processed a total of 2.37 billion switched...
