Published July 2, 2021, 6:30 AM Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Governor Benjamin E. Diokno said efforts to continue to develop the domestic capital market have not been diminished by the COVID-19 pandemic. Diokno said capital market reforms being implemented and other measures to further deepen the capital market are structural in nature. “In fact during the height of the pandemic, in 2020, the bond issuances by domestic banks were oversubscribed,” he said, citing Bank of the Philippine Islands, Land Bank of the Philippines, China Banking Corp. and Union Bank of the Philippines. BSP Governor Benjamin E. Diokno (Bloomberg file) The number of participants in investment trust funds also managed to grow by 33 percent in 2020 and 24 percent in the first quarter this year, said Diokno. “These are clear signs of sustained investor confidence in the Philippine capital market,” he added.