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.

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.

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.

A year later, Metrobank topped all the private domestic bank in total resources with P8. 8 billion.

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.

* 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 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.

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

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 ’ s subsidiaries are Toyota Motor Philippines Corporation, Philippine Savings Bank, First Metro Investment Corporation, Metrobank Card Corporation, ORIX Metro Leasing and Finance Corporation, SMBC Metro Investment Corporation, First Metro Travelex ( formerly Thomas Cook ( Phils.

* Metrobank Card Corporation

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.

* Placido Mapa Sr., Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources under President Elpidio Quirino ; first president of Metrobank

* 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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

BPI's main competitor are BDO and Metrobank.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

As usual in such cases, many other loans from French, English and the classical languages have subsequently entered the language as well.

He was subsequently entered at the Reverend John Bransby ’ s Manor House School at Stoke Newington, then a suburb four miles ( 6 km ) north of London.

His family subsequently entered a court, and winned it in the early 2010s, receiving a reparation for constrant of R $ 3000 ( which was originally R $ 10000 ), which is equivalent to roughly € 1000-1100 or 1250-1350 U. S. dollars.

Founded by Rabbi Meir Kahane in the early 1970s, and following his Jewish nationalist ideology ( subsequently dubbed Kahanism ), the party entered the Knesset in 1984 after several electoral failures.

The US government subsequently entered into individual treaties to secure legal rights for its citizens, to protect property rights and businesses interests in the mandates, and to preclude the mandatory administration from altering the terms of the mandates without prior US approval.

However, one practising Wiccan, the transgender activist Jani Farrell-Roberts subsequently entered into a publicly published debate with Hutton on the issue in a series of articles published in 2003 in the occult-based magazine The Cauldron.

Propelled by an intense boyhood curiosity and love for nature and mathematics, he graduated valedictorian from the Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School and subsequently entered Yale at the age of 15 as a member of Jonathan Edwards College.

However, upon completion, the work was rejected by the cardinal, and subsequently entered the collection of the banker Jacopo Galli, for his garden.

The churches which broke from the Holy See in 1870 and subsequently entered into union with the Old Catholic See of Utrecht gradually introduced the vernacular into the Liturgy until it completely replaced Latin in 1877.

And still more fiercely burn the fires of hatred and contempt for the filthy Quislings whom he has suborned .” It subsequently entered the language, and became a target for political cartoonists.

Denounced by other Bolshevik leaders for exceeding his instructions and exposing Bolshevist Russia to the threat of invasion, Trotsky subsequently defended his action on the grounds that the Bolshevik leaders had originally entered the peace talks in the hope of exposing their enemies ' territorial ambitions and rousing the workers of central Europe to revolution in defense of Russia's new workers ' state.

This was developed side by side with an airframe, the Hawker P. 1127, which became subsequently the Kestrel and then entered production as the Hawker Siddeley Harrier, though the supersonic Hawker Siddeley P. 1154 was canceled in 1965.

The spacecraft subsequently entered safe mode and began tumbling.

Cinema subsequently entered the studio to record an album.

It has subsequently ended its ban as a result of the District of Columbia v. Heller Supreme Court case, upon a federal lawsuit by the National Rifle Association being filed the day after Heller was entered.

* طوبة " brick "; Sahidic to: be ; Bohairic to: bi ; this subsequently entered Catalan and Spanish ( via Andalusi Arabic ) as tova and adobe respectively, the latter of which was borrowed by American English.

However, most words of Egyptian origin that entered into Greek, and subsequently into other European languages, came directly from ancient Egyptian ( often Demotic ).

He entered into a relationship with – and subsequently became engaged to – Camille Moke, despite the symphony being inspired by Berlioz's obsession with Harriet Smithson.

On September 20, after a cannonade of three hours had breached the Aurelian Walls at Porta Pia, the Bersaglieri entered Rome and marched down Via Pia, which was subsequently renamed Via XX Settembre.

He subsequently entered flight training at Corpus Christi, Texas and Pensacola, Florida, and received his Naval Aviator wings in 1947.

He and his son subsequently entered the clergy.

The word subsequently entered the English language via Scottish English.

Irving claimed on the basis of what he called the index books that, " Because the experts can look at a tattoo and say ' Oh yes, 181, 219 that means you entered Auschwitz in March 1943 " and he warned Auschwitz survivors " If you want to go and have a tattoo put on your arm, as a lot of them do, I am afraid to say, and claim subsequently that you were in Auschwitz, you have to make sure a ) that it fits in with the month you said you went to Auschwitz and b ) it is not a number which anyone used before ".

In 1935 Bloch and Henry Potez entered into an agreement to buy Société Aérienne Bordelaise ( SAB ), subsequently renamed Société Aéronautique du Sud-Ouest.

Mentioned by the Buddha in the Pali canon, Yama subsequently entered Buddhist, Chinese, Tibetan, Korean, and Japanese mythology as a wrathful god under various transliterations.