Four years later, Metrobank opened its Davao branch, the bank ’ s first provincial branch.

In September 1982, the number of Metrobank branches, offices and subsidiaries surpassed the 200 mark.

The Metrobank Group has a combined network of over 800 local and international branches / offices, remittance offices and subsidiaries worldwide.

Metrobank is divided into the following subsidiaries and affiliates, which are listed depending on their location of operation:

Among the notable financial institutions with branches in various parts of the city are Bank of the Philippine Islands, Metrobank, Banco de Oro, RCBC, Robinsons Bank, Philippine Veterans Bank, and the Bank of Commerce.

Restaurants such as Ihawan, Perlas ng Silangan, Renee's Kitchenette, Fritzie's Bakeshop, Fiesta Grill, Barrio Fiesta and Krystal's Cafe, are the most popular ones, while Philippine remittance and shipping centers such as Johnny Air Cargo, FRS, Edwards Travel, Apholo Shippers, Macro, Philippine National Bank, and Metrobank are present in the area.

The majority of the Philippines ' principal banks are now Chinese Filipino-controlled, including Philippine Savings Bank and most notably Metrobank Group, the country's largest and most aggressive financial conglomerate.

BPI's main competitor are BDO and Metrobank.

BDO's main competitors are major Philippine banks like Metrobank and BPI.

Following the grant of the universal banking license, Metrobank entered the following ventures: the acquisition of majority ownership of Philippine Savings Bank ( the second largest savings bank in the country at that time ); the establishment of a joint travel agency venture with Thomas Cook Group in Thomas Cook Phils., Inc. in 1986 ; and the tying-up with Toyota Motor Corporation of Japan and Mitsui to put up Toyota Motor Philippines in 1988.

These include: Chairman, Ramos Peace and Development Foundation ; Chairman, Boao Forum for Asia ; Trustee, International Crisis Group ( ICG ); Member, Advisory Group, UN University for Peace ; Honorary Director, General Douglas MacArthur Foundation ; Founding Member, Policy Advisory Commission, World Intellectual Property Organization ( PAC-WIPO ); Honorary Member, World Commission on Water for the 21st century ; Member, International Advisory Council, Asia House ; Patron, Opportunity International ( Philippines ); Global Advisor, University of Winnipeg ; Honorary Chairman, Yuchengco Center, De La Salle University ; Member, Advisory Board, Metrobank ; Honorary President, Human Development Network ( HDN ) Philippines ; Lifetime Honorary President, Christian Democrats International ( CDI ); and Chairman Emeritus, Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats ( CMD ) Party.

It host most of the banks around the province like Landbank of the Philippines, Metrobank, Allied Bank, Bank of the Philippine Islands, Development Bank of the Philippines, United Coconut Planters Bank, Chinabank, Philippine National Bank, Camalig Bank, BDO UniBank, Postal Bank, Producers Bank and Green Bank Inc.

Major banks include Philippine National Bank ( PNB ), United Coconut Planters Bank ( UCPB ), Development Bank of the Philippines ( DBP ), Allied Bank, Metrobank, Landbank, and Philippine Veterans Bank.

* Placido Mapa Jr., former Economic Planning Minister ; 1965 TOYM Awardee for Economics ; former Development Bank of the Philippines Chairman ; former Philippine National Bank President ; current Metrobank Vice-Chairman and head of the Metrobank Foundation

* Dr. Teresita P. Pedrajas-Chairperson, World Council for Curriculum and Instruction ( WCCI-UNESCO ); awardee, 1999 Metrobank Most Outstanding Teacher of the Philippines

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.

It is one of the many banks owned by a Chinese-Filipino in the Philippines ( others include Metrobank and Chinabank ).

Banco de Oro said that the proposed " merger of equals " would create the country's second biggest bank with assets of about P608 billion ( as of June 2007 ), just next to Metrobank with P669. 1 billion ( as of June 2007 ), the current banking industry leader in the Philippines.

The Metropolitan Bank and Trust Company (), commonly known as Metrobank, is the second largest bank in the Philippines.

Major Philippine banking institutions have established their local branches here including the Philippine National Bank, Metrobank, Chinabank, Bank of Commerce, Banco De Oro, Landbank of the Philippines, Allied Bank, United Coconut Planters Bank, The Country Bank, and the Bank of the Philippine Islands.

BDO has since surpassed Metrobank in asset, loan and deposit sizes to become the largest lender in the Philippines.

Equitable PCI Bank's main competitors included Metrobank, Bank of the Philippine Islands, Land Bank of the Philippines, and Philippine National Bank.

* A Member both of the two leading ATM Networks in the Philippines ; Equitable Bank's Megalink of which it is a founding member and PCIBank's BancNet of which it is the BancNet Operator along with Metrobank and RCBC.

It was a brainchild of three senior bank officers namely: Ramon C. Arceo, Jr., SVP of Philippine Commercial International Bank ( PCIBank ), Carlos Pedrosa, SVP of Metropolitan Bank and Trust Company ( Metrobank ), and Jose F. Santos, SVP of Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation ( RCBC ).

Metrobank subsequently entered into joint ventures with several renowned corporations like Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation of Japan to create Sumigin Metro Investment Corporation ; the National Mutual Holdings Ltd. of Australia to create Philippine AXA Life Insurance Corporation ; and the ORIX of Japan to create ORIX Metro Leasing and Finance Corporation.

* Metrobank Card Corporation

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.

The stretch of Ayala Avenue where PBCom Tower is located also has the main branches of the following banks Quadrant Information Services Inc., Metrobank, Bank of the Philippine Islands, Banco de Oro ( Equitable PCI Towers I & II ; Equitable Bank Tower ), Export and Industry Bank.

Metrobank, as the 2nd largest Philippine bank, is always trying to stave off competition to stay as one of the country's largest bank.

* Metropolitan Bank and Trust Company ( Metrobank ), a Philippine bank

PCIBank formed BancNet along with Security Bank, Chinabank, RCBC, Allied Bank ( Merged with PNB ), Metrobank, International Corporate Bank ( now part of UnionBank ), and Citytrust Savings Bank formed BancNet.

Notable ones include the Gokongwei Brothers Foundation, Metrobank Foundation, Tan Yan Kee Foundation, Angelo King Foundation, Jollibee Foundation, Alfonso Yuchengco Foundation, Cityland Foundation, etc.

Metropolitan Bank and Trust Company ( Metrobank ) was established by a group of businessmen on September 5, 1962 at the Wellington Building in Binondo, Manila.

At the onset of the 70s, Metrobank opened its first international branch in Taipei.

In the same year, branches and offices totaled 100 and the bank inaugurated its new Head Office at Metrobank Plaza in Makati.

On August 21, 1981, the Central Bank authorized Metrobank to operate as a universal bank.

The AMPAS was originally conceived by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio boss Louis B. Mayer as a professional honorary organization to help improve the film industry ’ s image and help mediate labor disputes.

The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences defines psychological altruism as " a motivational state with the goal of increasing another ’ s welfare ".

Psychological altruism is contrasted with psychological egoism, which refers to the motivation to increase one ’ s own welfare.

One way is a sincere expression of Christian love, " motivated by a powerful feeling of security, strength, and inner salvation, of the invincible fullness of one ’ s own life and existence ".

Another way is merely " one of the many modern substitutes for love, ... nothing but the urge to turn away from oneself and to lose oneself in other people ’ s business.

* David Firestone-When Romney ’ s Reach Exceeds His Grasp-Mitt Romney quotes the song

" Swift extends the metaphor to get in a few jibes at England ’ s mistreatment of Ireland, noting that " For this kind of commodity will not bear exportation, and flesh being of too tender a consistence, to admit a long continuance in salt, although perhaps I could name a country, which would be glad to eat up our whole nation without it.

George Wittkowsky argued that Swift ’ s main target in A Modest Proposal was not the conditions in Ireland, but rather the can-do spirit of the times that led people to devise a number of illogical schemes that would purportedly solve social and economic ills.

In response, Swift ’ s Modest Proposal was " a burlesque of projects concerning the poor ", that were in vogue during the early 18th century.

Critics differ about Swift ’ s intentions in using this faux-mathematical philosophy.

Charles K. Smith argues that Swift ’ s rhetorical style persuades the reader to detest the speaker and pity the Irish.

Swift ’ s specific strategy is twofold, using a " trap " to create sympathy for the Irish and a dislike of the narrator who, in the span of one sentence, " details vividly and with rhetorical emphasis the grinding poverty " but feels emotion solely for members of his own class.

Swift ’ s use of gripping details of poverty and his narrator ’ s cool approach towards them create " two opposing points of view " that " alienate the reader, perhaps unconsciously, from a narrator who can view with ' melancholy ' detachment a subject that Swift has directed us, rhetorically, to see in a much less detached way.

Once the children have been commodified, Swift ’ s rhetoric can easily turn " people into animals, then meat, and from meat, logically, into tonnage worth a price per pound ".

Swift uses the proposer ’ s serious tone to highlight the absurdity of his proposal.

In making his argument, the speaker uses the conventional, text book approved order of argument from Swift ’ s time ( which was derived from the Latin rhetorician Quintilian ).

James Johnson argued that A Modest Proposal was largely influenced and inspired by Tertullian ’ s Apology: a satirical attack against early Roman persecution of Christianity.

Johnson notes Swift ’ s obvious affinity for Tertullian and the bold stylistic and structural similarities between the works A Modest Proposal and Apology.

He reminds readers that " there is a gap between the narrator ’ s meaning and the text ’ s, and that a moral-political argument is being carried out by means of parody ".