Manila – On February 17, 2017, ABA Deputy Secretary General Amador Honrado met with RCBC Officers Ms. Christina Alvarez, SVP and Head of Corporate Planning Group; Mr. Raymundo Roxas, President of RCBC Microbank; and Mr. J. C. Carlos, Special Projects Officer, Corporate Planning Group, to discuss the possible date, venue, and content of the Microfinance Workshop to be conducted by RCBC for ABA member banks in early June 2017 in the Philippines.

The primary objective of the workshop is to provide ABA member banks, the opportunity to learn from the experience, best practices, and expertise of RCBC and Rizal Microbank, the microfinance arm of RCBC, which are already successfully engaged in microfinance operations.