Rural Bank: Here Starts The Lesson!
Rural Bank: Here Starts The Lesson!
Rural Bank: Here Starts The Lesson!
BANK
Here starts the
lesson!
NATURE OF RURAL BANK
government-sponsored/assisted banks which are privately managed and largely
privately owned that provide credit facilities to farmers and merchants, or to
cooperatives of such farmers or merchants at reasonable terms and in general, to the
people of the rural community.
KINDS OF RURAL
BANKS IN THE
PHILIPPINES
• BDO Network bank • Metro South Coop Bank
• East West Rural Bank • Rang-ay Bank
• Card Bank • RB of Angeles
• Guagua Rural Bank • Country Builders Bank
• Card MRI Rizal Bank • Katipunan Banking
• Cebuana Lhuillier RB • Coop Bank of Cotabato
• FicoBank • Summit Bank
• BOF Inc. Rural Bank • Marayo Bank
• Quezon Capital RB • Cantilan Bank
• Agribusiness Rural Bank • Ilocos Consolidated
FUNCTIONS OF RURAL
BANKS
A rural bank may offer or perform any or all of the following:
● Grant loans and make investments in accordance with existing rules and regulations.
● Receive in custody funds, documents, and other valuable objects, and rent safety deposit boxes for
safeguarding of such objects.
● Act as financial agent, buy and sell, by order of and for the account of its customers, shares, evidences of
indebtedness and all types of securities.
● Make collections and payments for the accounts of others and perform such other services for its customer as
are not incompatible with banking business.
SERVICES OF RURAL BANK
The rural bank, upon prior approval of the Monetary Board, performs any or all of the following services
● Act as official depository of municipal, city or provincial funds in the municipality, city or province where the bank
is located.
● Rediscount paper with the Philippine National Bank or the Development Bank of the Philippines, or other banks and
their branches and agencies, subject to such rules and regulations governing rediscounting