Chapter 3 Government Banking Institutions
Chapter 3 Government Banking Institutions
Chapter 3 Government Banking Institutions
NT BANKING
INSTITUTIO
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The role of the government in the banking
system is to supplement the credit facilities
of the private financial institutions.
The government is responsible primarily to
render services while the private financial
institutions operate basically for profit.
The different government banking
institutions are Philippine National Bank,
the Land Bank of the Philippines, the
Development Bank of the Philippines and
the Philippine Amanah Bank.
PHILIPPINE NATIONAL BANK
The present authority, powers, and
operations of the Philippine National
Bank (PNB) are governed by
Executive Order No. 80.
The operations and affairs of PNB
are governed by a board of directors
consisting of nine members who are
elected annually by the stockholders.
Corporate Powers. The PNB is a universal or
expanded commercial bank with the following
corporate powers:
1. To engage in the business of commercial
banking by:
a. Accepting drafts
b. Issuing letters of credit
c. Discounting and negotiating promissory notes,
drafts, bill of exchange and other evidences of
debts.
d. Receiving deposits
e. Buying and selling foreign exchange and gold
or silver bullions.
f. Acting as financial agent
g. Financing personal leasing
h. Lending money against personal security
or against securities consisting of
personal property or first mortgage on
improved real estate and the insured
improvements thereon.
To accept and execute trusts and to carry on
a general trust business.
To
hold, own, purchase, acquire, sell,
mortgage, dispose of
To organize and incorporate investment and/ or
development financing subsidiaries.
To issue in the Philippines or in a foreign
country for purposes of increasing it's capital
To guarantee foreign loans or credit
accommodations extended directly by foreign
firms or persons to domestic borrowers for
capital investment purposes.
To engage or participate in the development of
secondary markets for government securities
and short, medium and long term papers.
To invest in the shares of stock of allied
undertakings
To borrow money, or incur indebtedness or
contract obligations in connection with its
banking operations.
To engage in the warehousing of rice, corn
and other grains
To act as official government depository with
full authority to maintain deposits of the
government
To prescribe it's by laws.
To adopt and use a seal.
To make contracts.
To sue and be sued.
To acquire own and hold real and
personal property necessary to carry on
its business
To exercise the general powers of
corporations as provided for under
existing laws
BANKING OPERATIONS IN GENERAL
In connection with the grant of loans and
credit accommodations, PNB is authorized:
To purchase, discount or negotiate
promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange
and other evidences of debt issued
To grant loans on, or to discount notes
secured by, harvested and stored crops.
To grant loans for the production of rice,
personal property
To sue and be sued, make contracts,