Philippines looks to end special vehicles

The central bank in the Philippines is seeking to draw a line under special purpose investment vehicles that are a legacy of the Asian financial crisis that erupted more than a decade ago.

Nestor Espenilla, the deputy governor of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, said the central bank saw no need for another extension of the Special Purpose Vehicle Act (SPV), a special law that dates back to 2002.

The law was initially enacted to encourage the country's financial institutions to shed bad assets

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