Philippines’ Metrobank ties-up with 46 Japanese banks

Will help Japanese expand Philippine operations.

Metropolitan Bank & Trust Company said the 46 Japanese regional banks are located from Hokkaido in northern Japan and to Okinawa in the south. It said the partnerships aim to support principally Japanese small and medium enterprises’ new investments in the Philippines.

The recently concluded Japan Bank for International Cooperation road show in Japan initiated a series of cooperation agreements with the Japanese regional banks (JRBs). In the JBIC program, Metrobank will serve as the Philippine counterpart of the JRBs to serve Japanese SME clients and their local operations or expansion plans.

Metrobank’s Japanese partners are Yamagata Bank Ltd., Bank of Iwate Ltd., Toho Bank Ltd., Musashino Bank Ltd., Chiba Bank Ltd., Tokyo Tomin Bank Ltd., Daishi Bank Ltd., Hokuetsu Bank Ltd., Hokuriku Bank Ltd., Fukui Bank Ltd.; Shimizubank Ltd., Mie Bank Ltd., Shiga Bank Ltd., Bank Of Kyoto Ltd., Nanto Bank Ltd. Kiyo Bank Ltd., San-In Godo Bank Ltd., Yamaguchi Bank Ltd., Shikoku Bank Ltd, Oita Bank Ltd. Kagoshima Bank Ltd., Bank of the Ryukyus Ltd., Kitakyushu Bank Ltd., North Pacific Bank Ltd., Tochigi Bank Ltd., Taiko Bank Ltd., Nagano Bank Ltd., First Bank of Toyama Ltd., Aichi Bank Ltd., Bank of Nagoya Ltd., Minato Bank Ltd., Momiji Bank Ltd., Tokushima Bank Ltd., Kagawa Bank Ltd. and Ehime Bank Ltd.