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The Banco de Oro-Equitable PCI Bank merger (2004–2006) was a plan by the SM Group of Companies and Banco de Oro Universal Bank, the then fifth-largest bank in the Philippines, to merge with Equitable PCI Bank, the third-largest bank. The merger was part of a long-term goal of Banco de Oro to become one of the largest names in the Philippine ...
The current bank is the product of the Banco de Oro–Equitable PCI Bank merger. The boards of both banks agreed to merge on December 27, 2006. The new BDO Unibank retained the ticker symbol of the old Banco de Oro, and 1.3 billion BDO shares were issued in exchange for 727 million Equitable PCI Bank shares. Equitable PCI Bank was de-listed on ...
Equitable PCI Bank, Inc. (PSE: EPCI) was one of the largest banks in the Philippines, being the third-largest bank in terms of assets. It was the largest bank before it was overtaken by Metrobank in 1995. It is the result of the merger of Equitable Banking Corporation and Philippine Commercial International Bank or PCIBank.
It was the headquarters of Equitable PCI Bank until its merger with Banco de Oro (later known as BDO Unibank) in 2007. [2] Demolition work on the building complex started as early as March 2022, by BDO Unibank. It obtained a demolition permit in December 2021 with JLC Construction as its constructor. [1]
The Philippines has a comprehensive banking system encompassing various types of banks, from large universal banks to small rural banks and even non-banks.As of September 30, 2022, [1] there were 45 universal and commercial banks, [2] 44 savings banks, [3] 400 rural and cooperative banks, [4] 40 credit unions and 6,267 non-banks with quasi-banking functions, all licensed by the Bangko Sentral ...
Equitable Holdings, Inc. (formerly The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company, and also known as The Equitable) is an American financial services and insurance company that was founded in 1859 by Henry Baldwin Hyde. In 1991, French insurance firm AXA acquired majority control of The ...
The building will be occupied by the banking firm Banco de Oro (BDO), the namesake of the building. The BDO Corporate Center was not meant to become the new headquarters of Banco de Oro. The bank's management & many major offices still remained in Makati (former Equitable-PCI Headquarters) until their demolition starting 2022. [7]
The bank was established by Alfonso Yuchengco on September 23, 1960, as Rizal Development Bank, a small development bank in Rizal province. [13] It was later upgraded to a commercial bank upon the approval of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas and, in 1963, began operation as such under its present name Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC).