Examples of Specific Bank in The Philippines
Examples of Specific Bank in The Philippines
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.
Reference
https://doingbusinessinthephilippines.com/list-of-banks-in-the
philippines/?fbclid=IwAR0zviZQOJYeE2ZC3UfMHTXjMfTn0ZAzKYsfIoETsDW
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