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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 third 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.
LandBank also ranked fourth 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 o last April 4 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.