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Smart extends mobile money services to rural banks

By Lawrence Agcaoili | December 30, 2012 - 12:00am

Smart Communications Inc., the wireless arm of dominant carrier Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT), has tied up with First Macro Bank Inc. to bring the benefits of mobile money to more farmers and rural...

Business

More rural banks become mobile bank savvy

December 28, 2010 - 12:00am

Sixty-five rural banks (RBs), with 950 branches in different corners of the Philippines, are presently utilizing mobile banking technology to serve the unbanked and underbanked segments of the country’s p...

Banking

First Macro Bank relies on relationships, not size

By Ted P. Torres | October 12, 2010 - 12:00am

First Macro Bank Inc. (Rural Bank of Pateros) may be a humble rural bank with just nine branches.

Banking

Las Piñas bank robbed

By Michael Punongbayan | July 25, 2007 - 12:00am

Metro

DBP honors institutions

March 23, 2004 - 12:00am

The Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) was named as the most outstanding PFI (participating financial institution) for the fourth consecutive year by a government financial institution. The Development Bank of...

Banking

3-minute bank heist in Pasig

December 11, 2002 - 12:00am

Call it an express cash withdrawal. Five men staged a daring robbery at a rural bank in Pasig City yesterday, taking some P100,000 in a three-minute job. The robbery at the First Macro Bank located at No. 32 Guillermo...

Metro