Banks’ reserve requirements have been cut in a bid to free up cash that could be used to fuel the economy, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) announced on Thursday.

The Monetary Board, it said in a statement, had approved a one-percentage point “operational adjustment to support the BSP’s shift toward a more market-based implementation of monetary policy as well as its broad financial market reform agenda.”

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