The Philippines’ overall balance of payments showed a surplus of USD642 million in December, up from USD612 in the same period in 2022, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas said.
The pass-through effect of the Philippine central bank's series of rate hikes since 2022 has been "quite significant", a senior Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas official said on Friday.
GoTyme Bank, the Gokongwei digital lender jointly owned with Singapore's Tyme Group, reported acquiring an estimated 250,000 new customers a month the past three months, allowing it to report over 2.3 million customers only 14 months from when they first conducted business.
CIMB Bank, a digital-only lender with a commercial banking license, anticipates attracting as much as 1.5 million new depositors before the year is over.