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TYPES OF BANK
1. Commercial Bank
A Commercial bank is a type of Bank / Financial Institution that provides services such as
accepting deposits, making business loans, and offering basic investment products.
"Commercial bank" can also refer to a bank, or a division of a large bank, which more
specifically deals with deposit and loan services provided to corporations or
large/middle-sized business - as opposed to individual members of the public/small
business -Retail banking, or Merchant banks.
Role of Commercial banks
The general role of commercial banks is to provide financial services to general public
and business, ensuring economic and social stability and sustainable growth of the
economy.
In this respect, "credit creation" is the most significant function of commercial banks.
While sanctioning a loan to a customer, they do not provide cash to the borrower.
Instead, they open a deposit account from which the borrower can withdraw. In other
words, while sanctioning a loan, they automatically create deposits, known as a "credit
creation from commercial banks".
Commercial Banks are smaller than Universal Banks in terms of scope of business
activities.
Commercial Banks can offer various banking services, but they cannot engage in the
activities of investment houses or investment banks such as underwriting of securities.
Universal Banks can offer commercial banking, securities underwriting and other
investment banking services.
Alphabetical Listing of 19 Commercial Banks, without addresses
1. Bangkok Bank Public Co. Ltd.
2. Bank of America, N.A.
3. Bank of China Limited - Manila Branch
4. Bank of Commerce
5. The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd.
6. BDO Private Bank, Inc.
7. Cathay United Bank Co., Ltd. - Manila Branch
8. Citibank, N.A.
9. CTBC Bank (Philippines) Corporation
10. Industrial Bank of Korea - Manila Branch
11. JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A.
12. Korea Exchange Bank
13. Maybank Philippines, Inc.
14. Mega International Commercial Bank Co., Ltd.
15. Philippine Bank of Communications
16. Philippine Veterans Bank
17. Robinsons Bank Corporation
18. Shinhan Bank - Manila Branch
19. Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation - Manila Branch
1.1 Universal Banks have a wider scope of activities than Commercial Banks.
In addition to commercial banking activities, universal banks are authorized to:
- engage in underwriting
- and in other activities of investment houses
- and to invest in equities of non-allied institutions.
Alphabetical List of Universal Banks in the Philippines
1. Al-Amanah Islamic Investment Bank of the Philippines
2. ANZ Banking Group Ltd.
3. Asia United Bank Corporation
4. Bank of the Philippine Islands
5. BDO Unibank, Inc.
6. China Banking Corporation
7. Deutsche Bank AG
8. Development Bank of the Philippines
9. East West Banking Corporation
10. The Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation
11. Internationale Nederlanden Groep Bank N.V.
- Manila Branch
12. Land Bank of the Philippines
13. Metropolitan Bank & Trust Company
14. Mizuho Bank, Ltd. - Manila Branch
15. Philippine National Bank
16. Philippine Trust Company
17. Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation
18. Security Bank Corporation
19. Standard Chartered Bank
20. Union Bank of the Philippines
21. United Coconut Planters Bank
2.Thrift Bank
Rural and cooperative banks are the more popular type of banks in the rural
communities. Their role is to promote and expand the rural economy in an orderly and
effective manner by providing the people in the rural communities with basic financial
services. Rural and cooperative banks help farmers through the stages of production,
from buying seedlings to marketing of their produce. Rural banks and cooperative
banks are differentiated from each other by ownership. While rural banks are privately
owned and managed, cooperative banks are organized/owned by cooperatives or
federation of cooperatives.
A rural bank has the power to provide adequate credit facilities to farmers and
merchants or to cooperatives of such farmers and merchants and, in general, to the
people of the rural communities of which the rural bank operates in.