BANK reserve requirements should be substantially lowered but the timing will be critical, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Governor Eli Remolona Jr. said on Friday.

"[W]e would like to reduce the reserve requirement by quite a bit, because I think it's distorting financial intermediation," he said in a Bloomberg interview.

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