Paggamit ng Bangko

...that the first bank in the Philippines, established in Manila on August 1, 1851 and originally called El Banco Español Filipino de Isabel 2, was also the first bank in Southeast Asia?
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…that this bank was organized 23 years after the king of Spain, Ferdinand VII, issued a decree to establish a public bank in the Philippines?
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…that before the establishment of El Banco Español Filipino de Isabel 2, the functions of banks were performed, though on a limited scale, by the obras pias (Spanish for "pious works")?
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…that the obras pias were an accumulation of bequests whose donors had specified that the funds be used for charitable, religious and educational purposes?
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…that some of the funds were managed by confraternities that invested capital in secular activities like underwriting cargoes for the galleon trade?
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…that the organization of this bank was spearheaded by His Excellency Antonio de Urbiztondo, who was then the Spanish governor and captain-general of the Philippine Islands?