Published April 21, 2021, 5:00 PM As the only country in the world with a constraining deposits secrecy law, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) will request President Duterte to certify the proposed measures on Bank Secrecy Law as urgent, particularly the BSP’s version of the law as House Bill No. 8991. BSP Governor Benjamin E. Diokno is dismayed that the Philippines holds the distinction as the only central bank to be restricted by a bank secrecy law (Republic Act No. 1405, also known as “The Secrecy of Bank Deposits Law) after Lebanon lifted its own bank secrecy law in May last year, in the middle of the pandemic.