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Banco de Oro expands further via GE Money Bank purchase.

BusinessWorld (Philippines)

| May 29, 2009 | COPYRIGHT 1999 Business World Publishing Corporation. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Gerard S. dela Pena

Sy-led Banco de Oro Unibank, Inc. is looking to expand even further with the purchase of GE Money Bank.

In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, the bank said it had inked a definitive agreement with GE Capital, the financial services unit of US-based General Electric Co. (GE), for the takeover of the latter's Philippine unit.

"We are acquiring the local business of GE Money Bank," BDO Senior Vice-President Luis S. Reyes, Jr. said in a phone interview.

He declined to disclose the amount involved, saying the deal still has to be approved by regulators.

The move will fold GE Money Bank's 30,000 …

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