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                    [Title] => Digital platform seen to boost inclusive growth
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Voyager Innovation and Smart eMoney’s vice president and head of financial innovations, digital inclusion and alliances Lito Villanueva emphasized the relevance of digitizing payments and driving electronic transactions to propel the government’s advocacy on inclusive growth.

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Governments in many developing countries, including the Philippines, will speed up their investments to promote electronic payments, followed by changes in payment laws and regulations this year.

[DatePublished] => 2015-01-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097672 [AuthorName] => Ted P. Torres [SectionName] => Banking [SectionUrl] => banking [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 695614 [Title] => Mongolian monetary officials in Phl [Summary] =>

Seventeen delegates from the Bank of Mongolia, the Finance Regulatory Board of Mongolia, the Information, Communications Technology, and Post Authority, along with other Mongolia government officials participated in the Rural Bankers Association of the Philippines (RBAP) International Visits Program last month.

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During the MABS 32nd Management Committee Meeting held last month in Cebu City, MABS chief John Owens reported that MABS program has significantly helped rural banks improve micro-entrepreneur’s access to microfinance as recently shown by the positive loan and deposit performance indicators.
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