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BSP, JICA launch web-based SME credit scoring platform
The Freeman
|August 13, 2025
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) have rolled out a new web-based credit scoring system designed to help banks and other lenders better evaluate the creditworthiness of small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
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The Credit Risk Database Philippines (CRDPh) System upgrades the existing standalone scoring tool into an automated online platform. It forms part of the second phase of the BSP-JI-CA Credit Risk Database project started in 2020.
This story is from the August 13, 2025 edition of The Freeman.
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