Metrobank (China) head office relocation and public welfare strategic cooperation signing ceremony successfully held at Nanjing IFC, Jianye District, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province on Aug 27, 2019. Mr. Arthur Ty, Chairman of Metropolitan Bank and Trust Co., Ltd together with the board members attend the ceremony.

Mr. David Lin, President of Metrobank (China) gave a welcome speech. He said that the relocation heralds a new starting point for the next 10 years of development of Metrobank (China), and also embodies the firm belief and expectation of the late chairman George Ty and the current chairman Arthur Ty that Metrobank is rooted in China and will make great progress in China.

Mr. David Lin, President of Metrobank (China) Co., Ltd

Metrobank was founded in 1962 by Dr. George Th in the Philippines, committed to building itself into a bank for entrepreneurs and SMEs, enabling more young people to realize their dreams. After 57 years of development, it has grown into the second largest commercial banking group in the Philippines and one of the largest banking groups in southeast Asia.

Metrobank has successively established 10 overseas branches and 14 remittance channels in 14 countries and regions including China. Metrobank (China) has completed the integration of the domestic foreign currency payment system and the parent bank's overseas remittance, with a relatively large proportion of foreign exchange settlement, foreign exchange settlement and swap and small such intermediary is opposite bigger, the proportion of business formation characteristics.

Metrobank (China) is the first foreign legal bank in Jiangsu province. In the early 1990s, Metro bank returned to China to set up a representative office and Shanghai branch in 2001. When planning the subsidiary bank of China, the government of Jiangsu province promoted investment promotion in southeast Asia. In response to the call of the government of Jiangsu province, Metrobank established its legal subsidiary bank of China in Nanjing in 2009 and established its regional headquarters in Nanjing.

During the ceremony, Metrobank (China) together with Shanghai soong ching ling foundation held a public welfare strategic cooperation signing ceremony. Both of them committed to work together to carry out to protect rural children grow, foster rural education, grant assistance, such as project, through targeted funding poor children, improve teachers' comprehensive quality, and to provide more education facilities and assist children in need of help to provide a stable growth, support the development of national education, to promote the cultivation of high-level talents needed for the socialist modernization, provide a meaningful future to the children. This year, Metrobank (China) will continue to follow the public welfare concept of parent bank and to follow the late chairman George Ty’s charitable, cooperation with domestic well-known foundation (Shanghai soong ching ling Foundation), comprehensive opens the lines of Metrobank China's public welfare. The first stop of the cooperation is in Fujian, the hometown of Dr. George Ty, late chairman of Metrobank.

Left: David Lin, President of Metrobank China; Oliver Yang, Vice President of Shanghai Soong Ching Ling Foundation; Alice Shi, Head of Human Resource