{"id":29943,"date":"2018-06-19T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T02:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=29943"},"modified":"2018-06-19T19:04:13","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T11:04:13","slug":"fukuoka-bank-seals-partnership-with-bdo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2018\/06\/19\/fukuoka-bank-seals-partnership-with-bdo\/","title":{"rendered":"Fukuoka Bank seals partnership with BDO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The third-largest regional bank of Japan, <strong>Bank of Fukuoka, Ltd. (BoF) <\/strong>has sealed a\u00a0memorandum of understanding (MOU) with<strong> BDO Unibank<\/strong> as its partner-bank should they decide to expand their business or set up shops in the Philippines.\u00a0Founded in 1942, BoF has 170 branches and representative offices in Dalian, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei, Bangkok, Singapore, Ho Chi Minh City, and New York City.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-29979\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/06\/bdo-fukuoka-1024x358.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"853\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/06\/bdo-fukuoka-1024x358.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/06\/bdo-fukuoka-300x105.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/06\/bdo-fukuoka-768x269.jpg 768w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/06\/bdo-fukuoka.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 853px) 100vw, 853px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The partnership is a milestone for BDO as no Japanese Regional Bank (JRB) in the Kyushu region has aligned with any Philippine bank in the past.\u00a0Since 2013, BDO has sealed agreements with several JRBs strategically situated in the various prefectures of the world&#8217;s third-largest economy. These JRBs are serving as conduits of their clients which are currently doing business in the Philippines or eyeing the country as their next business hub.<\/p>\n<p>Said undertakings were considered a byproduct of the previous MoU entered into by BDO with the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) essentially promoting the development and strengthening of a framework to support Japanese mid-tier companies as well as SMEs through JRBs.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>This is a press release. Minor edits were made prior to publishing.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third-largest regional bank of Japan, Bank of Fukuoka, Ltd. has sealed a memorandum of understanding with BDO Unibank as its partner-bank!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,94],"tags":[1846,6334],"class_list":["post-29943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-press-release","tag-bdo-unibank","tag-fukuoka-bank"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/06\/logo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29943"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29982,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29943\/revisions\/29982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}