THE PHILIPPINES’ global funding place (IIP) used to be at a web exterior legal responsibility of $58.2 billion as of September 2025, narrowing from the former quarter, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) mentioned.
Central financial institution information confirmed that end-September’s web legal responsibility place used to be 13.2% narrower than the $67 billion observed at end-June. It used to be additionally down through 7.1% from the $62.7 billion logged a yr prior.
“The decrease web legal responsibility place displays upper exterior property and decrease overseas tasks,” the BSP mentioned in a observation launched past due Monday.
This corresponds to twelve.1% of the rustic’s gross home product, less than the 14.1% proportion recorded 1 / 4 prior.
The IIP is a gauge of the economic system’s exterior publicity, offering a snapshot of the worth of its overseas monetary property and liabilities at a given time limit. The web place refers back to the distinction between property and liabilities and represents both a web declare on or a web legal responsibility to the remainder of the sector.
“The IIP serves as the most important indicator of the rustic’s monetary hyperlinks with the remainder of the sector, serving to to evaluate exterior vulnerability and resilience through appearing what the rustic owns and owes the world over,” the central financial institution mentioned.
The rustic’s investments in overseas property higher through 1.9% to $263.9 billion at end-September from $259 billion at end-June and through 3.3% from $255.5 billion a yr previous.
“The rustic’s inventory of exterior monetary property rose essentially because of a 2.9% building up in reserve property from $106 billion in end-June 2025 to $109.1 billion in end-September 2025,” the BSP mentioned.
Of the entire, 43% or $113.6 billion got here from the BSP, whilst 15.6% or $41.2 billion had been from banks. Different sectors invested a complete of $109.1 billion all over the duration or 41.3% of the entire.
By way of form of software, the majority of citizens’ overseas investments had been reserve property valued at $109.1 billion (41.3% of the entire), adopted through debt tools at $42.4 billion (16.1%), debt securities $38.9 billion (14.7%), fairness capital at $36.7 billion (13.9%), forex and deposits at $15 billion (5.7%), loans at $11.9 billion (4.5%) and fairness securities at $7.7 billion (2.9%).
In the meantime, overseas investments in Philippine property went down through 1.2% to $322.1 billion at end-September from $326 billion 1 / 4 in the past. 12 months on yr, it climbed through 1.2% from $318.2 billion.
By way of sector, the overall executive accounted for 27.9% or $89.9 billion of the entire exterior monetary liabilities all over the duration. This used to be adopted through banks with $39.4 billion (12.2%), the BSP with $3.9 billion (1.2%) and different sectors with $188.9 billion (58.6%).
Overseas loans made up 25% or $80.5 billion of overseas investments in Philippine property at end-September. Other kinds incorporated nonresidents’ investments in debt tools amounting to $73.5 billion (22.8%), investments in debt securities at $59.4 billion (18.4%), fairness capital at $59.3 billion (18.4%) and fairness securities at $34.7 billion (10.8%).
The nationwide executive remained a web debtor with $89.9 billion in liabilities as of Septmber, whilst different sectors, similar to different monetary companies, nonfinancial companies, and families and nonprofit establishments serving families, had $79.8 billion in exterior monetary liabilities.
Alternatively, the central financial institution stood as a web lender all over the duration, extending $109.7 billion price of sources international, whilst banks lent $1.8 billion. — Katherine Okay. Chan
