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Receiving the award for First Metro Investment Corporation (L-R): Ms. Lalaine C. De Guzman, FMIC Assistant Vice President and Distribution Division Head; Ms. Ma. Teresa V. De Vera, FMIC Senior Manager for Investment Banking; and Mr. Reynaldo B. Montalbo, Jr., FMIC First Vice President and Deputy Group Head for the Treasury Department. First Metro Investment is Best Domestic Bond House in the Philippines Twice in A Row The Asset, a Hong Kong-based finance magazine awarded First Metro Investment Corporation as the Best Domestic Bond House in the Philippines. It formally held its annual recognition rites on January 13, 2010 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Hong Kong. The Asset’s Triple A Awards acknowledges the industry’s most prestigious business groups for banking, finance, treasury and the capital markets. After a rigorous selection from among the best banks in various countries, to be included in its short list of title holders in the Philippines is a big privilege to First Metro Investment Corporation. 2009 is First Metro Investment’s second time to receive the bragging rights as Best Domestic Bond House in the country. Earlier this year, the investment bank received the same recognition from Finance Asia of Hong Kong. First Metro Investment was responsible for more than 50% of all debt transactions in the country, having played lead roles in major peso fund raising in 2009. First Metro Investment’s commitment to the Philippine capital markets spans 37 years of solid track record since its inception in 1972. Being the only publicly-listed investment bank in the country, it also boasts of being the investment banking arm of the country’s largest financial conglomerate—the Metrobank Group. First Metro’s accomplishments have made it the choiced partner of both government and corporate conglomerates, namely: Ayala Group, SM Group, PLDT, Aboitiz Group, Metrobank Group, and of course, the Republic of the Philippines in its Retail Treasury Bonds issues.
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