[ 12 Comments ] Posted on 09.12.09 under Banking, Philippine Retirement
What expats and foreign residents need to know about banking in the Philippines: credit cards, debit cards, checking accounts, Social Security and pension direct deposit, wire transfers, Internet banking.
[ 6 Comments ] Posted on 09.09.09 under Banking, Philippine Retirement
Americans receiving government pensions may have those pensions direct deposited to their Philippine bank accounts. Here are the details.
[ 7 Comments ] Posted on 09.03.09 under Banking, Crime
The Philippine Postal Service PhilPost has a mixed record for service and security. Don’t send sensitive or valuable items via PhilPost.
[ No Comments ] Posted on 11.13.08 under Banking
Citibank announced that it will close it’s Iloilo, Philippines branch as of February 4, 2009. The branch was opened to great fanfare in 2006. See http://www.thenewstoday.info/2006/11/17/citibank.savings.inc.launching.html Citibank Savings customers were invited to transfer their accounts to the Citibank Savings branch in Bacolod City which will remain open. This is another in a series of blows to international [...]
[ 3 Comments ] Posted on 09.07.08 under Banking
There are probably hundreds of money changers in Iloilo City. Here are a couple that I have had good luck with.