Asia’s best bank transformation 2018: Union Bank of the Philippines

For many years Union Bank of the Philippines was a solid but unspectacular universal bank – decent but neither the biggest nor the boldest. Then it set about a new mission: to make itself the most digitally sophisticated bank not only in the Philippines but the region. That makes it Euromoney’s best bank for transformation in Asia this year.

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For many years Union Bank of the Philippines was a solid but unspectacular universal bank – decent but neither the biggest nor the boldest. Then it set about a new mission: to make itself the most digitally sophisticated bank not only in the Philippines but the region. That makes it Euromoney’s best bank for transformation in Asia this year.

UnionBank resembles an early-stage DBS, a bank it has studied closely in deciding how to reinvent itself.

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