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Timeline of AFASA in the Philippines: law in force August 2024, BSP rules June 2025, stronger security required June 2026, new BSP drafts next

What AFASA Has Changed So Far, and What Comes Next

When people talk about the Anti-Financial Account Scamming Act, they often treat it as one event. It is really three. The law took effect on August ...

8 min · 03 Nov 2026
TrustVision hero showing a woman confirming a transaction with face authentication, extracting biometric signals to verify her identity

How to Replace SMS OTP With Face Authentication: A Rollout Plan

This is the third of TrustVision's three layers, and it depends on the face registered during customer onboarding. See how it connects to fraud ...

9 min · 27 Oct 2026
TrustVision hero showing face retrieval matching a customer against a database, alongside ID tampering and government validation checks

How TrustVision Catches Tampered IDs and Duplicate Identities

This is the second of TrustVision's three layers, and it runs on the same capture used in customer onboarding. See how it connects to transaction ...

8 min · 27 Oct 2026
Bank risk officer reviewing AFASA and BSP Circular 1213 compliance requirements.

AFASA Compliance After the Deadline: A Checklist for Banks

This guide ties together our AFASA series. For the bigger picture, read AFASA Compliance Is the Floor, and for what it looks like when it's running, ...

9 min · 20 Oct 2026
Filipino borrower with a mobile phone but no credit bureau record

Alternative Credit Scoring in the Philippines, Explained

In this piece. Most Filipino adults have a mobile phone. Many have never borrowed from a bank, so a credit bureau has nothing to say about them. ...

8 min · 14 Oct 2026
Customer capturing a Philippine government ID on a phone during digital onboarding

Philippine ID Verification: How Lenders Verify IDs Online

This sits inside TrustVision's first layer, onboarding, and hands off to fraud prevention. See how all three layers fit in the full TrustVision ...

7 min · 14 Oct 2026
trustVISION customer onboarding flow showing ID Reader OCR at 95–99% accuracy, portrait liveness check, and selfie-ID matching

A Bad Photo Is Not a Bad Customer: eKYC Onboarding in the Philippines

This is the first of TrustVision's three layers. See how it connects to fraud prevention and transaction verification in the full TrustVision ...

7 min · 21 Sep 2026

eKYC and Fraud Prevention Platform: TrustVision’s 3 Layers

In this piece. TrustVision is Trusting Social's digital onboarding and fraud prevention platform, and it is built in three layers, not one: identity ...

6 min · 23 Jul 2026
Man taking a live face capture on his phone, with a Vision Score of 98 alongside an existing model score of 640 and a +24% approval lift

Your Model Reads Their Past. Here Is What It Looks Like to Read Their Present.

In this piece. Traditional credit data is a record of what a borrower did before they applied. Vision Score reads a biometric signal your onboarding ...

11 min · 01 Jul 2026
Woman at a payment counter handing over papers, the everyday Filipino borrower behind rising consumer loan defaults

Why Loan Defaults in the Philippines Are Still Rising, and What Your Credit Model Is Missing

Philippine consumer loan defaults are climbing. The numbers behind that trend raise a harder question than most lenders are asking. This piece breaks ...

8 min · 01 Jun 2026