Enhancement of the FX Form I/IA Report — Consolidated Foreign Exchange (FX) Assets and Liabilities

March 4, 2015BSP MEMORANDUM NO. M-2015-012TO:All Universal/Commercial and Thrift Banks   SUBJECT:Enhancement of the FX Form I/IA Report — Consolidated Foreign Exchange (FX) Assets and Liabilities In an effort to address banks' concerns on maintaining DOS-based Personal Computers (PCs) for the purpose of reporting FX Form I and FX Form IA (hereinafter referred to as the Reports), banks will be allowed to submit reports in Comma-Separated Values (CSV) file format effective 6 April 2015.The following guidelines on the electronic submission of the reports shall be observed:1. Beginning report week-ending 10 April 2015, banks shall submit the Reports either in CSV file format or Data Base File (DBF) format to give flexibility to the banks in the preparation of the reports.2. The BSP-prescribed file structure which shall serve as the banks' guide in creating their CSV Report file are specified in Annexes A and B. A soft copy may be requested from the BSP-Department of Economic Statistics (DES), International Transactions Reporting System (ITRS) Group.3. The CSV (GLFX.CSV) or DBF (GLFX.DBF) file of the reports shall be electronically...