Weekly Crypto Roundup Get the weekly briefing for Philippine crypto insiders, from the country’s longest-standing crypto and blockchain news publication. SwiftPay, the enterprise payments arm of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP)-regulated Swift Technology Ventures Inc., has launched SwiftGuard, a real-time fraud-detection and decisioning layer aimed at helping local banks and BSP-supervised financial institutions (BSFIs) comply with new anti-fraud mandates. The news from SwiftPay comes amid heightened regulatory scrutiny under the Anti-Financial Account Scamming Act (AFASA) and BSP Circular No. 1213, which require covered institutions to deploy Fraud Management Systems (FMS) capable of intercepting illicit transactions in real time. According to …


