Philippine senator Erwin Tulfo (pictured) is calling for “updates on the online gambling issue” in the country, a month after a Senate committee started discussing a path of tighter regulation for the sector. A Tuesday update from the Senate Public Relations and Information Bureau cited comments that day by Senator Tulfo at a hearing of the Committee on Games and Amusement. He added that the “continued presence of illegal online gambling operators, the social harm of online gambling and the critical role of e-wallet in facilitating gambling payment” were other topics that ought to be discussed. Amid the public debate, the Philippines’ central bank in mid-August ordered providers of electronic wallets (e-wallets) and other digital payment systems to remove links that provided access from their interfaces to online gambling platforms in the country. In July, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr was reported as saying he was studying what grounds there might be for an outright ban on domestic online play.