Pouch Philippines, Inc. was founded in 2022, by Ethan Rose, with the purpose of bringing the benefits of Bitcoin and the Lightning Network to the Philippines. Pouch is a fully remote company, with a physical office address in Cebu I.T. Park. Pouch is regulated by Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas as an Operator of Payment Systems. Pouch's parent company is registered as a US-based money services business with FinCEN.