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Mar 03 2022 Financial institutions, regulators vow to tighten watch vs digital vote buying
REGULATORS, financial institutions and other stakeholders vowed to tighten monitoring and reporting of digital transactions that could be related to vote buying even as they assured that mechanisms are in place to avert illegal practices.
“We can only imagine how creative they (vote buyers and sellers) can be in the forthcoming election,” Socorro B. Inting, Commission…
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Mar 03 2022 Fintech groups warn vs digital vote-buying, vote-selling in polls
FINANCIAL technology (fintech) groups called on digital wallet and account owners to be responsible users during the election season, advising them to not “misuse” their platforms for vote-buying and vote-selling.
In a joint statement on Tuesday, Fintech Alliance.ph and eMoney Association of the Philippines threw their support behind the recent advisories by the Bangko Sentral ng…