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BancNet was founded on July 17, 1990, as the Philippines' second ATM consortium when the ATMs of eight banks, PCI Bank (later Equitable PCI Bank, now Banco de Oro), Security Bank, Chinabank, RCBC, Allied Bank (now part of PNB), Metrobank, International Exchange Bank (now part of UnionBank) and CityTrust Banking Corp. (now part of BPI) formed BancNet.
The service has two major components: the infrastructure and the support services. BancNet deploys credit authorization terminals with requisite supplies, provides store signage (or point of sale display), maintains toll free connections for provincial merchants (PLDT, Innove (Globe Telecom) and Digitel) and performs actual transactions settlement (finance) (through the BN depository bank).
BancNet is also the exclusive gateway of China's UnionPay, allowing access to the nearly 1 billion ATM cardholders from the People's Republic of China. BancNet is allied with global payment brand JCB International. Through this alliance, JCB cardholders can now do cash advances at participating BancNet member ATMs nationwide.
The Express Payment System, more commonly known as the EPS, was the EFTPOS system originally of the ATM cards of Bank of the Philippine Islands and its subsidiaries, BPI Family Savings Bank and BPI Direct Savings Bank. Today [when?], it is the EFTPOS system of the Expressnet interbank network in the Philippines. The system is the most popular ...
MegaLink was launched on March 19, 1990. MegaLink was linked with both BancNet and Expressnet. In 1992, the banks of ATM Bersama, an Indonesian interbank network, turned to MegaLink's expertise as their model for a shared services network. MegaLink launched the Debit Bills Payment as well as purchases via POS terminals in 1993.
The first bank to make such an announcement about the BancNet-Expressnet tie-up was Chinabank, of which its sister bank, Banco de Oro, is a member of Expressnet. Internationally, Expressnet cardholders (excluding Landbank and local BPI and Banco de Oro cardholders) are connected to Maestro and Cirrus in the cases of BPI and Banco de Oro and PLUS .
Lilian Hefti, was head of the BIR who assumed office in September 2007, but resigned in October 2008, for health reasons. [5] [6] On October 20, 2008, she was replaced by Sixto Esquivias, who served as deputy commissioner. [7] The Bureau currently has more than 75 BIR Forms [8] and tax classification for different professionals and businesses.
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