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BPI BANKO · PHILIPPINES · MICROFINANCE
Deposits, QR payments and branch lending for BPI BanKo,

Deposits, QR payments and branch lending for BPI BanKo, developed in Seoul and served from Alibaba Cloud in Singapore.

BPI BanKo, the microfinance savings bank of the Bank of the Philippine Islands, launched its deposit and QR-payment system on Bankware's BX MFS microfinance product in 2018 and added a loan origination and servicing system in 2019. Bankware built the first system in six months.

Savings BankPhilippinesBX MFSBX-PFSince 2018
AT A GLANCE

Microfinance banking on a Bankware cloud core.

Customer-wide figures, such as user or transaction counts, are the customer’s own and not Bankware delivery results.

Deposits & payments
2018Live
Deposit and QR-payment system (ADPS) live on BX MFS in 2018.
Lending
2019Added
Loan origination, disbursement and monitoring system added in 2019.
Hosting
Alibaba CloudSingapore
Developed in Seoul and served from Alibaba Cloud in Singapore.
ABOUT THE CUSTOMER

BPI BanKo the microfinance savings bank of BPI.

BPI BanKo is the microfinance-focused savings bank of the Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI). In 2019 it served about 400,000 customers through some 300 branches.

General facts about the customer. They are not results of Bankware’s work.

THE CHALLENGE

Deposits, payments and lending for microfinance customers across the Philippines.

BanKo needed deposit, QR-payment and lending services for microfinance customers across the Philippines, including agent banking that lets local shops act as service points.

THE BANKWARE ENGAGEMENT

BX MFS with BX-PF, in two phases.

What Bankware delivered: the products, scope and role in this engagement.

Phase 1 (2018): an Alternative Deposit and Payment System (ADPS) for deposits and QR-code payments. Phase 2 (2019): a loan system covering origination, disbursement and monitoring, plus agent banking that lets local shops act as service points. Customer, agent and collector mobile apps run on the same platform. BX-PF is used to configure and launch products for target segments.

THE RESULT

80 new loan products in six months, on the Bankware platform since 2018.

On the Bankware platform, BanKo launched 80 new loan products within six months. BanKo reports that its customer base grew 40% in the first year, 77% by the second year, and an average of 33% a year after that. In 2020 the loan system was processing about 600 new loans a day, roughly 10,000 a month, across some 300 branches.

Customer-wide figures, such as user or transaction counts, are the customer’s own and not Bankware delivery results.

6 months
First system built
80
New loan products in six months
2018 · 2019
Deposits/payments, then lending
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