These partnerships are facilitated through our National Strategy for Financial Inclusion (NSFI). Our financial education partnerships with institutions like the Department of Education (DepEd) can reach 29 million learners and over 800,000 teachers; and with the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration, 2.3 million OFWs and 14 million overseas Filipinos.
Also, the emergence of the euro as a successful global currency, with the payments infrastructure, unified monetary policy, and converging fiscal policies that are associated with it, creates an attractive, large market. This is a market that US firms have found, and will continue to find, hospitable and in which European cross-border mergers will, no doubt, continue.