
MAKATI CITY, Philippines—Highlighting its growing contribution to advancing the
Philippine capital market, LANDBANK was honored as one of the top-performing
institutions at the 2025 Philippine Dealing System (PDS) Annual Awards Night.
The state-run bank clinched 3 rd place in the Top 5 Corporate Issue
Managers/Arrangers – Bank Category, in recognition of its vital role in facilitating the
issuance of corporate fixed-income securities in 2024. The award honors institutions
that led or arranged the largest volume of listed corporate securities offered during
the year.
The Bank also ranked 4th among the Top 5 Fixed-Income Brokering Participants,
highlighting the Bank’s strong presence in the fixed-income market and significant
contribution to overall trading volume by face amount.
LANDBANK Senior Vice President Gonzalo Benjamin A. Bongolan and Assistant
Vice President Glenn R. Aguda accepted the awards on behalf of the Bank on 4 April
2025 at the Makati Diamond Residences.
Since 2005, the PDS Group, comprising the Philippine Dealing System Holdings
Corp. and its subsidiaries, has been recognizing outstanding performance,
leadership, innovation, and contributions to the capital market through its annual
awards.
These accolades underscore LANDBANK's strategic role in deepening the local
capital markets, in line with its broader mission of supporting agriculture and other
key development sectors in driving inclusive and sustainable development.
ABOUT LANDBANK
LANDBANK is the largest development financial institution in the country promoting
financial inclusion, digital transformation, and sustainable national development.
Present in all 82 provinces in the county, the Bank is committed to provide
accessible and responsive financial solutions to empower Filipinos from countryside
to countrywide.