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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 current bank is the product of the Banco de Oro–Equitable PCI Bank merger.The boards of both banks agreed to merge on December 27, 2006. The new BDO Unibank retained the ticker symbol of the old Banco de Oro, and 1.3 billion BDO shares were issued in exchange for 727 million Equitable PCI Bank shares.
From late November to early December 2021, [1] numerous accountholders of BDO Unibank (Banco de Oro; BDO) lost their money through unauthorized bank transfers.The funds were noted to have been transferred to multiple Unionbank accounts under the name of a certain "Mark Nagoyo".
BDO Unibank, an original MegaLink member bank, retains the use of MegaLink nomenclature and design in its software despite its mandated transfer to BancNet. MegaLink was formed in September 1989 by Equitable Banking Corporation (now merged with Banco de Oro ), Far East Bank and Trust Company (now part of BPI ), Philippine National Bank ...
Expressnet is the primary network of the following banks listed below: Banco de Oro (formerly a member of MegaLink, now BancNet) - April 1995; Bank of the Philippine Islands and subsidiaries BPI Direct Savings Bank and BPI Family Savings Bank (also a member of BancNet) - February 14, 1986
On January 6, 2006, Banco de Oro Universal Bank submitted a merger offer to the bank, with Banco de Oro as the surviving entity. Under the proposed offer, Banco de Oro would swap 1.6 of its shares for every 1 share of Equitable-PCI (The merger occurred, but BDO Shareholders were to swap 1.8 BDO shares for every EPCI share).
BancNet introduced the BancNet Rewards Points program on August 15, 2009, the first points-based rewards system exclusively for debit purchases in the country. Every Php 25 in spend using an ATM debit or prepaid card of a member bank earned the cardholder 1 point. 2,000 points were needed to redeem the cash rebate of Php 100.
The EPS logo. 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.