[ANN] Coinxchange - Bitcoin exchange for the Philippines
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ann-coinxchange-bitcoin-exchange-for-the-philippines-563687Hi,
I'm a professional software developer and I've been working on writing a Bitcoin exchange from scratch. I think the Philippines may be a good location to open an Exchange and the legal requirements appear to be reasonable. Does anyone have any thoughts on that?
I've done some initial checking into what it would require to create a new foreign-owned corporation in the Philippines, because I intend to be fully registered. One thing I haven't been able to learn much about is what the banking situation is like. The US has ACH for moving funds in and out of banks. India has NEFT. etc. Does a similar situation exist in the Philippines and if so, what is it? I've been able to see that if you have an account at "BankA" you can move money easily to another account, but I'm not sure whether this is easy between banks.
Any thoughts are appreciated.
Thanks
Just thought to let everyone here know that tagcash.com is now live for trading of Bitcoin and 16 other cryptocurrencies against each other, as well as 9 fiat currencies (including PHP). No transaction charges, and no charges for Philippine users to deposit PHP into BPI, BDO, Metrobank and Standard Chartered Bank. There is also an escrow function (free) that allows users to pay but not fully transfer untill Bitcoin etc has been fully transferred and confirmed, which also protects the seller as the money cannot be released untill proof either way.
Tagcash is a payment platform with a built in exchange. We are based in Makati, but available worldwide. Tagcash aims to become the paypal of cryptocurrency, and this requires us to have an exchange built in as part of the platform. If you want to start selling goods and services for Bitcoin or Cryptocurrency, you can do so using our free API, or creating a merchant account in tagbond.com and creating free adverts, coupons, shopping carts etc. Transaction charges are 1% of sales for merchant accounts.
@Ayakashi - We have been working for the last few months with Bangko Sentral, and we are going through the process of becoming licensed as E money issuers and have already created a 100m Peso company as part of the requirements. Although you don't need a license to create an exchange, we do because we are intending to compete with G Cash and Smart Money in Philippines. As for banking, it's fairly straightforward, different bank to bank payments cost about 100 pesos per transaction, depositing money costs nothing if you have bank accounts with most of the popular banks (as we do). It's been interesting learning about the requirements and needs here. I will be at the Bitcoin meetup next week if you want to talk more.
Thanks to those that replied, including @tagbond, @Dabs and @execute. I appreciate your insights.
I'm based in Las Vegas, USA, so unfortunately can't attend this meetup but I'll bet you'll see me at one in the near future. I'm going to get the code nearer to test-ready stage, and then complete the company registration and banking locally. @tagbond, like you I plan to create a 100m Peso company so that I can register as a foreign-owned corporation although we'll have a local office.