The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) on Thursday identified the Industrial Bank of Korea as the fourth foreign bank that has secured approval from the Monetary Board (MB) to set up and operate a branch in the Philippines.

The BSP earlier announced it has approved the application of another foreign bank to operate in the Philippines, in line with the liberalization of the local banking industry.

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