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Regulatory · Thu 30 Jul · 3 min read
S&P ranks Philippines near bottom on gaming credit resilience
What happened
S&P Global Ratings published a 12-page report assessing gaming industry business resilience across eight Asia-Pacific jurisdictions. The Philippines and Cambodia landed in the bottom half of the ranking. S&P's framing is specific: it cited abrupt policy changes as a key driver of lower resilience scores, and it named regulatory risk as structural and intrinsic to the Asia-Pacific gaming sector, not a one-off concern.
The ranking itself is not a credit rating action. No operator was downgraded. But S&P has now put formal language into the market that credit analysts, bond underwriters, and equity investors can cite when asking questions about Philippine gaming exposure.
Why it matters
Sources: GGRAsia
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