MANILA, Feb. 29 -- The government is in the process of acquiring tools to combat crimes on financial technology, the Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (CICC) said on Thursday.

"On the capacity of the Philippine government, we are acquiring tools that will be able to decouple, kasi (because) at the end of the day fintech [financial technology] crimes generally, so for you to go into fintech crimes, there are specific tools," CICC deputy executive director Assistant Secretary Mary Rose Magsaysay said in a Bagong Pilipinas Ngayon interview aired over People's Television.

She disclosed that by next week the country would have the capacity to decouple or identify where the money went or came from even when data are already mix...