The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, the central bank of the Philippines, intends to move forward with a research project focused on central bank digital currencies.
In a speech transcript published March 4 and dated February 28, governor Benjamin Diokno discussed the central bank's digital initiatives and highlighted the so-called"Project CBDC-Ph."
Dionko characterized the effort as"the BSP's pilot project to build organizational capacity and hands-on knowledge of CBDC design, architecture, technology, and policy implications." BSP indicated in aAs for whether the country will move forward with its own digital currency is less clear at this time. Dionko
said in an interview that the BSP"has no plans to introduce a CBDC in the near term primarily because the population remains heavily cash reliant given the country’s e