GFTN Select - ASEAN Series - Philippines: Building the Second Act of Digital Finance

The Philippines is one of Asia’s most adaptive FinTech markets: a huge and growing remittance corridor driven by overseas Filipino workers, a deeply digital-savvy consumer base, and a sound regulatory architecture for open finance and inclusive payments already in place. The question now is how to scale — how to collectively turn these foundations into credit flowing to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), real-time payments reaching the unbanked, and AI-driven services that are both powerful and well governed.