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Five financial regulators have agreed to streamline banks’ merger, consolidation, and acquisition (MCA) processes to strengthen government’s long-standing fight against red tape or over-regulation that hinders businesses.
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas The regulators essentially agreed to simpl
Published April 6, 2021, 12:09 AM
With the promulgation last week of the implementing rules and regulations of the Financial Institutions Strategic Transfer (FIST) Act (Republic Act No. 11523), the government has delivered a solid jab into the financial muscle of banks as prime movers of business and industrial growth that has taken a nosedive in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This new law supersedes and repeals Republic Act No. 9182, which granted tax exemptions and other privileges to newly created firms, known as special purpose vehicles, that assume bad loans and invest in banks’ non-performing assets. The FIST companies take on the management of such debts and assets, deploying their expertise in rehabilitating the loans of the banks’ distressed clients.