{"id":157786,"date":"2025-11-01T22:30:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T22:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/157786\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T22:30:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T22:30:15","slug":"pacquiao-launches-manny-pay-to-boost-digital-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/157786\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacquiao launches Manny Pay to boost digital payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                           <a href=\"https:\/\/www.philstar.com\/authors\/1808134\/keisha-ta-asan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Keisha Ta-Asan<\/a> &#8211; The Philippine Star<\/p>\n<p>November 1, 2025 | 12:00am<\/p>\n<p>MANILA, Philippines \u2014 Former senator and boxing icon Manny Pacquiao has launched a new financial platform under 7th Pillar Integration Systems Corp., aiming to provide Filipinos with a secure, low-cost and fully local alternative for digital payments.<\/p>\n<p>The Manny Pay app, which initially operates as a payment gateway, will soon evolve into a full-fledged e-wallet and remittance service, according to 7th Pillar president and CEO Marc Bundalian.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s definitely going to be an e-wallet but right now we\u2019re a payment gateway,\u201d Bundalian said in an interview on the sidelines of the launch event held Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has issued Manny Pay a temporary license to operate, giving the company 30 days to demonstrate compliance with regulatory standards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNormally, the BSP gives temporary licenses to see if the process flow is correct. After 30 days, we\u2019ll be granted a permanent license,\u201d Bundalian said.<\/p>\n<p>Pacquiao, who serves as chairman of 7th Pillar, said the idea for Manny Pay was inspired by a casual dinner conversation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt started when we ate at a restaurant and someone asked, \u2018Who\u2019s gonna pay?\u2019 Then they said, Manny Pay,\u201d Pacquiao recounted with a laugh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cManny Pay came up because of that dinner \u2013 and Manny always pays. Our business is an IT company, and all our developers are local Filipinos. Tatak Filipino talaga ito,\u201d Bundalian said.<\/p>\n<p>The platform is powered by Amazon Web Services to ensure high-level data protection and system reliability. \u201cIt\u2019s very secure,\u201d Bundalian said, adding that the team is taking a \u201cslow but steady\u201d approach to expansion to prioritize user security and service quality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t want to rush it. We want to make sure our users\u2019 data and transactions are safe. Hopefully, we won\u2019t have the same scamming issues that have affected other e-wallets,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Manny Pay users will be able to pay utility bills, including water, electricity and toll top-ups for expressways. The company expects all payment processes to be fully operational by year-end.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe highlight for us is lower fees. We promise lower convenience charges \u2013 about P2 less per transaction compared with others,\u201d Bundalian said. \u201cWe\u2019ll also be connected to InstaPay in the coming days or weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Once the platform secures a full electronic money issuer license, it plans to roll out fund transfers and remittance features targeted toward overseas Filipino workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keisha Ta-Asan &#8211; The Philippine Star November 1, 2025 | 12:00am MANILA, Philippines \u2014 Former senator and boxing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[257],"tags":[2672,18,19,17,279,4592,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-157786","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-digital","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-mobile","13":"tag-payments","14":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115476812456446024","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}