the majority of its loan portfolio. In 2021, about two-thirds – P587.3 billion – of the state bank’s loans went to the government’s other priority projects. These include micro, small, and medium enterprises; utilities; housing; logistics; education; healthcare; environment; and tourism.
This means that of about P880.4 billion in the bank’s total loans, only P38.8 billion – or 4.4% – reached small farmers, fishers, cooperatives, and farmers’ associations.Its supporters – led by Finance Secretary Benjamin Diokno – claim that merging the two banks to form the largest bank in the Philippines would make a “bigger and stronger bank to better serve the country’s development needs.”
The DBP has been particularly vocal in its opposition. In a press conference on Tuesday, May 9, DBP Chairman Dante Tinga called Landbank a “dismal failure” for supposedly not fulfilling its mandate. “It’s [entrusted] with enormous capital and yet it failed,” the chairman added. “It is a dismal failure.”“DBP should be the surviving entity because of its richer legacy, more extensive experience and expertise, and better track record in development financing. It’s more deserving to become the surviving bank,” he said.
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DBP chair questions merger with LandBankThe chairman of state-run Development Bank of the Philippines on Tuesday described the study that recommended its merger with Land Bank of the Philippines as “legally erroneous”, saying it was done with inordinate haste and encroached on the mandate--
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