Philippines Financial Sector Assessment Program : Philippine Payment and Settlement System

The Philippine payment, clearing, and settlement infrastructure consists of systemically important financial market infrastructures and retail payment systems. The Philippine payment and settlement system (PhilPaSS) was implemented in 2002 and is o...

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Main Author: Ramteke, Nilima
Format: Report
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2021
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/539271629267802196/Philippines-Financial-Sector-Assessment-Program-Philippine-Payment-and-Settlement-System-Technical-Note
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spelling okr-10986-361862021-08-24T05:10:45Z Philippines Financial Sector Assessment Program : Philippine Payment and Settlement System Ramteke, Nilima FINANCIAL SECTOR DEVELOPMENT PAYMENT AND SETTLEMENT SYSTEM FINANCIAL REGULATION OVERSIGHT LEGAL FRAMEWORK The Philippine payment, clearing, and settlement infrastructure consists of systemically important financial market infrastructures and retail payment systems. The Philippine payment and settlement system (PhilPaSS) was implemented in 2002 and is operated by the payments and settlements office (PSO) of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) and the oversight function is with the payment system oversight department (PSOD) of BSP. The rules and regulations for implementation of the national payment systems act (NPSA) have to be notified by the BSP on an immediate basis to provide a high degree of certainty for payment systems in Philippines, including each material aspect of PhilPaSS’ activities. The BSP should obtain the approval of the Monetary Board (MB) for the operations of PhilPaSS as laid down under section 8 of the NPSA. It is recommended that BSP issue necessary secondary legislation under the NPSA covering the registration of payment systems. In order to ensure that the current governance framework adequately represents the interests of the relevant stakeholders in PhilPaSS, BSP may take suitable measures such as considering stakeholder representation in the Board Risk Oversight Committee (BROC) or in the digital payments transformation steering committee (DPTSC) for direct participants or alternately constitute user committees and undertake a public consultation process. The MB should establish a clear, documented risk-management framework that includes the PhilPaSS’ risk policy, assigns responsibilities and accountability for risk decisions, and addresses decision-making in crises and emergencies. It is accordingly recommended that: (i) the enterprise risk management (ERM) framework to include legal risk, credit risk, liquidity risk, settlement risk, custody risk, and reputational risk for PhilPaSS, apart from operational risk; and (ii) consider strengthening the BROC to enable it to also function as a risk committee for PhilPaSS in addition to its existing role. 2021-08-23T20:36:46Z 2021-08-23T20:36:46Z 2019-08 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/539271629267802196/Philippines-Financial-Sector-Assessment-Program-Philippine-Payment-and-Settlement-System-Technical-Note http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36186 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work :: Financial Sector Assessment Program Economic & Sector Work East Asia and Pacific Philippines
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topic FINANCIAL SECTOR DEVELOPMENT
PAYMENT AND SETTLEMENT SYSTEM
FINANCIAL REGULATION
OVERSIGHT
LEGAL FRAMEWORK
spellingShingle FINANCIAL SECTOR DEVELOPMENT
PAYMENT AND SETTLEMENT SYSTEM
FINANCIAL REGULATION
OVERSIGHT
LEGAL FRAMEWORK
Ramteke, Nilima
Philippines Financial Sector Assessment Program : Philippine Payment and Settlement System
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description The Philippine payment, clearing, and settlement infrastructure consists of systemically important financial market infrastructures and retail payment systems. The Philippine payment and settlement system (PhilPaSS) was implemented in 2002 and is operated by the payments and settlements office (PSO) of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) and the oversight function is with the payment system oversight department (PSOD) of BSP. The rules and regulations for implementation of the national payment systems act (NPSA) have to be notified by the BSP on an immediate basis to provide a high degree of certainty for payment systems in Philippines, including each material aspect of PhilPaSS’ activities. The BSP should obtain the approval of the Monetary Board (MB) for the operations of PhilPaSS as laid down under section 8 of the NPSA. It is recommended that BSP issue necessary secondary legislation under the NPSA covering the registration of payment systems. In order to ensure that the current governance framework adequately represents the interests of the relevant stakeholders in PhilPaSS, BSP may take suitable measures such as considering stakeholder representation in the Board Risk Oversight Committee (BROC) or in the digital payments transformation steering committee (DPTSC) for direct participants or alternately constitute user committees and undertake a public consultation process. The MB should establish a clear, documented risk-management framework that includes the PhilPaSS’ risk policy, assigns responsibilities and accountability for risk decisions, and addresses decision-making in crises and emergencies. It is accordingly recommended that: (i) the enterprise risk management (ERM) framework to include legal risk, credit risk, liquidity risk, settlement risk, custody risk, and reputational risk for PhilPaSS, apart from operational risk; and (ii) consider strengthening the BROC to enable it to also function as a risk committee for PhilPaSS in addition to its existing role.
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title Philippines Financial Sector Assessment Program : Philippine Payment and Settlement System
title_short Philippines Financial Sector Assessment Program : Philippine Payment and Settlement System
title_full Philippines Financial Sector Assessment Program : Philippine Payment and Settlement System
title_fullStr Philippines Financial Sector Assessment Program : Philippine Payment and Settlement System
title_full_unstemmed Philippines Financial Sector Assessment Program : Philippine Payment and Settlement System
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publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
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url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/539271629267802196/Philippines-Financial-Sector-Assessment-Program-Philippine-Payment-and-Settlement-System-Technical-Note
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