Within that year, BPI also founded the BPI Direct Savings Bank, an Internet bank, which launched BPI into 21st century banking.

BPI does not compete with its two banking partners: BPI Family Savings Bank and BPI Direct Savings Bank.

Banco de Oro joined in April 1995, BPI Direct Savings Bank, another BPI subsidiary, joined in 2000, and HSBC Savings Bank, a subsidiary of HSBC, became the latest Expressnet member on April 1, 2001.

* BPI Family Savings Bank

Expressnet was founded on February 14, 1986, when the ATMs of Bank of the Philippine Islands ( BPI ) and its subsidiary, BPI Family Savings Bank, the founders of Expressnet, were connected for the first time.

BancNet was founded on July 17, 1990 as the Philippines ' second ATM consortium when the ATMs of eight banks, PCI Bank ( now Banco de Oro ), Security Bank, Chinabank, RCBC, Allied Bank, Metrobank, International Corporate Bank ( now part of UnionBank ), and Citytrust Savings Bank ( now part of BPI ), formed BancNet.

A Milan court has also ordered Fazio – who headed the Bank of Italy from 1993 to 2005 – to pay a 1. 5 million euro ($ 2. 14 million ) fine for his role in the takeover saga pitting Dutch Bank ABN AMRO against Italy's Banca Popolare Italiana ( BPI ).

* BPI Family Bank ( with Family ) 2005 – 2006

DBP competes in bank marketing against the largest commercial banks such as Metrobank, BPI, BDO Universal Bank and Philippine National Bank.

LANDBANK competes against the major banks such as Metrobank, BPI, Banco de Oro and Philippine National Bank.

* Bank of The Philippine Islands ( BPI )

He worked at the Filipinas Foundation Inc. as Assistant Corporate Secretary from 1970 to 1975, Assistant Vice President of BPI Investment Corporation from 1976 to 1983 and Assistant Vice President for Corporate Banking and Treasury at the Bank of the Philippine Islands from 1983 to 1985.

Bank of the Philippine Islands ( Spanish: Banco de las Islas Filipinas, commonly known as BPI ; ) is the oldest bank in the Philippines still in operation and is the country's third largest bank in terms of assets, the country's largest bank in terms of market capitalization, and the country's most profitable bank.

BPI was established on August 1, 1851 as the El Banco Español Filipino de Isabel II ( Spanish-Filipino Bank of Isabel II ), named after the queen of Spain, Isabella II, the daughter of former king Ferdinand VII.

On January 1, 1912, a decision by the shareholders of Banco Español-Filipino changed the name to the present Bank of the Philippine Islands ( BPI ), or Banco de las Islas Filipinas in Spanish.

In 1949, with the establishment of the Central Bank of the Philippines ( now the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas ), BPI ( and other banks issuing Philippine currency ) lost the right to issue Philippine pesos, a right it had since the Spanish colonial era and ( with competition from other banks ) during the American colonial period.

However, the BPI-DBS deal permitted DBS Bank to hold a stake in BPI.

* The first bank to introduced " Bank Anywhere " capability by allowing clients of the bank to transact at any of its more than 800 BPI branches ' free of charge '

Xanterra purchased the resort from Busch Properties, Inc. ( BPI ).

" Peters was the first beautiful music syndicator to sell out its library in the late 1980s to Broadcast Programming, Inc. -- known in the industry as BPI -- which snapped up several other syndicators within the next few years.

* BPI Bancassurance Inc.

* BPI Foundation, Inc.

During periods of major depression or mania ( in BPI ), functioning was on average poor, with depression being more persistently associated with disability than mania.

ELO collected 19 CRIA, 21 RIAA and 38 BPI awards, and sold over 50 million records worldwide during the group's active period of recording and touring.

* Becoming X ( 1996 ) – # 27 UK, # 111 U. S., # 1 U. S. Heatseekers – BPI: Gold

The album I've Been Expecting You sold almost 3 million copies in the UK and was certified 10x Platinum by the BPI.

The band's performance was described as " rough but right " by Rolling Stone magazine, but they would not perform together again until the 1988 BPI Awards.

The up-tempo " Bring It All Back " reached number-one in the United Kingdom singles charts, and after selling more than 600, 000 copies, was made BPI certified Platinum.

* A simulated Branch on Program Interrupt ( BPI ) instruction.

The album itself proved to be a minor success and peaked at Number 14 on the UK Albums Chart, and was later certified gold by the BPI in 1982.

The album itself charted at Number 4 in the UK Albums Chart, their highest ever position, and was certified platinum by the BPI in 1984.

1984 saw the release of the third Heaven 17 album, How Men Are, which reached Number 12 in the UK chart and was certified silver by the BPI.

* Bohemian Rhapsody is named ' The Best Single Of The Last 25 Years ' by BPI.

The Tin Drum album itself peaked just outside the UK Top 10, and was the band's first record to be certified by the BPI, being awarded a Silver disc within a month of release, and reaching Gold status within four months.

It was also a commercial success, debuting and peaking at number 12 in the UK Albums Chart and being certified Silver by the BPI within a month of its release.

National groups and affiliate bodies include SNEP in France, Bundesverband Musikindustrie in Germany, RIAJ in Japan, BPI in the UK and RIAA in the US.

Business Process Improvement ( BPI ) is a systematic approach to help an organization optimize its underlying processes to achieve more efficient results.

In essence, BPI attempts to reduce variation and / or waste in processes, so that the desired outcome can be achieved with better utilisation of resources.

Yet, others have found that BPI is a valuable tool in a process of gradual change to a business.

This alignment can be brought about by integrating programs like Balanced Scorecard to the BPI initiative.

It is imperative in any BPI exercise that the " Voice of Customer " be known, and factored in, when reviewing or redesigning any process.

Accordingly, benchmarks assume an important role in any BPI initiative.

* Carrying out BPI is a project, so all principles of project management apply.

* Once the outcomes are determined, the organization's work force needs to be re-organized to meet the new objectives, using the variety of tools available within the BPI methodology.

Most resistance to BPI comes from within an organization.