United Coconut, Planters Bank

Welcome! UCPB Ties Up with Moneygram to provide more remittance channels to Filipinos overseas UCPB continued to expand the reach of its remittance service, signing recently a partnership with a leading global payment service company, Moneygram. With this partnership, overseas Filipinos can now send money to the Philippines via Moneygram's 100, 000 branches in 180 countries; their beneficiaries will receive the remittance through UCPB's 178 branches. Only a few months earlier, the bank also entered into a similar partnership with UAE Exchange, one of the biggest remittance service providers in the Middle East. These partnerships with foreign remittance companies reflect the bank's thrust to capture a bigger share of the steadily growing remittance market. Shown below during the signing of the agreement with Moneygram are (from left, 1st row): UCPB VP Victor Ruben Tuason, UCPB EVP Higinio Macadaeg, Jr., Peragram president Spencer Chua and Peragram chairman Jacob Assad, Jr. Moneygram's regional business development manager Remas Ho and regional operations officer Raingo Chiu (3rd and 4th from left, 2nd row) witnessed the signing. Also in the photo are UCPB M2 Eric Ramirez and Peragram operations manager Peter Daleon (1st and 2nd from left, 2nd row).         Products and Services         We were informed very recently that a new company, Skyway Operation and ...