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The Philippine Veterans Bank (PVB) has appointed professional banker Nonilo Cruz as chief operating officer.

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                    [Title] => PIATCO sinampahan sa korte
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Sinampahan ng kasong kriminal sa Manila Metropolitan Trial Court ang mga opisyal ng Philippine International Air Terminal Corporation (PIATCO).


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                    [Title] => Lopezes lay claim to 7.13% of EPCIB
                    [Summary] => In a surprising twist to the ongoing boardroom battle in the country’s third largest lender, Equitable PCI Bank, the Lopez family has renewed its claim to a 7.13-percent stake currently held by the Romualdez family’s Trans-Middle East (Philippines) Equities Inc. (TMEQ).


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                    [Title] => Gokongwei to put up mall in China
                    [Summary] => Business tycoon John Gokongwei is spending billions of pesos of his own money to put up a shopping mall in Shanghai, China, his first outside the Philippines.  


Highly placed sources said Gokongwei has acquired a sizeable real property in Shanghai which will house not only a shopping mall but also a hotel and office buildings.


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                    [Title] => GSIS selling its 12.4% stake in Equitable PCI Bank
                    [Summary] => The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS), the state pension fund for government workers, is putting its 12.4-percent stake in Equitable PCI Bank on the auction block for a minimum bid price of P92 a share.


The move follows the strong interest reportedly expressed by foreign investor groups in EPCIBank, currently the third largest bank in the country, and Banco De Oro’s proposed merger with EPCIBank.


The pension fund’s plan to sell its 90.08 million EPCIBank shares was contained in a bidding invitation published in major newspapers yesterday. 


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Based on the investigation conducted by the SEC’s Compliance and Enforcement Department (SEC-CED), Romulo and Bautista are not fit to sit as independent directors in EPCI Bank subject to the requirements of Sec. 38 of the SRC.


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                    [Title] => PSE to recognize only Equitable PCI Bank president as authorized representative
                    [Summary] => In view of the squabble over management control of Equitable PCI Bank, the Philippine Stock Exchange said it would only recognize the bank’s president Rene Buenaventura as the duly authorized representative of EPCI Bank.


The bank is the subject of a battle for control by its major shareholders – EPCI Bank’s founding Go family on one side and state pension funds Government Service Insurance System and Social Security System and the Romualdez family’s Trans-Middle East Philippine Equities Inc., on the other.


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                    [Title] => EPCI Bank’s feuding groups issue joint statement of support on bank operations
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Highly placed sources said Gokongwei has acquired a sizeable real property in Shanghai which will house not only a shopping mall but also a hotel and office buildings.


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