Examples of Specific Bank in The Philippines

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Examples of Specific Bank in the Philippines

Banks are important to an economy, you wouldn’t be able to put very important
economic items together without it. According to Venus Angelli David (2018),
there are 43 universal and commercial banks, 57 thrift banks, 492 rural banks, 40
credit unions and 6,267 non-banks in the Philippines with quasi-banking features.
Universal banks with the largest financial capital operating in the Philippines
have branches in either Makati, Bonifacio Global City (BGC), Quezon City or some
other part of Metro Manila and provinces of Philippines.
The operations and practices of these banks are subject to the regulation of Bangko
Sentral ng Pilipinas (the central bank of the Republic of the Philippines), provided
under Section 4 of the Republic Act No. 8791, better known as the
"General Banking Law of 2000." Some of these banks are:

 Philippine National Bank – a universal bank and known for a largest bank in
the Philippines. Established by the Philippines government on July 22, 1916
during American occupation which was purchased by Lucio Tan after it was
privatized by government and became the first universal bank in the
Philippines in 1980. Its first headquarters was in the old Masonic Temple
along Escolta, Manila.

Its primary mission was to provide financial services to Philippine agriculture


and industry and to support the economic development program of the state
. And now PNB became the fifth largest private domestic bank in the country
after its merger with the Tan-owned Allied Bank on February 9, 2013. As of
the end of 2011, PNB had 331 branches in the Philippines and 13 branches
overseas.

 Robinsons Bank Corporation – a commercial bank and formerly known as


Robinsons Savings Bank founded in 1997 and changed its name in May 2011.
It is based in Quezon City with branches across the Philippine. This bank
provides banking services for retail and business customers.
 Philippine Savings Bank – a savings bank or thrift bank abbreviated as PSB
which is a subsidiary of Metro Bank and a second largest savings bank in the
Philippines. It was founded in 1959 at Manila and its headquarters is at
Makati, Philippines.

Reference

Venus.2018. List of General & Commercial Banks in the Philippines; [cited

2019 Oct 10]. Available from

https://doingbusinessinthephilippines.com/list-of-banks-in-the

philippines/?fbclid=IwAR0zviZQOJYeE2ZC3UfMHTXjMfTn0ZAzKYsfIoETsDW

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