Building Local Economies Through Lasting Partnerships

Collaboration work, forging alliances and partnership-building have always been the strategy of the New Rural Bank of San Leonardo in pursuing its mandate as a development finance institution and in meeting its business objectives. Starting in 1994 with a co-financing agreement with a foreign partner, the next 27 years of steady growth was nurtured by the Bank’s cooperation with various funding and guaranteeing institutions, development organizations, government agencies including systems and technology solutions providers among others. Most of these institutional relationships are long-standing reckoned from initial deals that progressed overtime to multiple transactions and new opportunities. These ties have been sustained and strengthened by mutual trust and reciprocal benefits the parties derived from the engagement towards the fulfillment of shared advocacies. The recent and current involvements of NRBSL are marked by the same synergy to work with partners and to support peers in the industry. See More.....

The New Rural Bank of San Leonardo continues to live up to its strategy of partnership, networking and collaboration work. Last May 15-17, 2024, at the Sofitel Phnom Penh Phokeethra, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, NRBSL took part in the 47th Annual Meetings the Association of Development Finance Institutions in Asia and Pacific (ADFIAP). A five-person delegation from the Bank’s governing Board - John Mark Cajiuat, Magdalena G. Fernandez, Marcelo N. Jampil, Jubailene B. Bulawit and Abundio D. Quililan, Jr., represented NRBSL in this international gathering.See More.....

Cropital is a crowd-funding platform that connects anyone to help finance farmers. The company receives support from institutions in the U.S.A, Netherlands, Malaysia, and the Philippines. Aside from its activities as a social enterprise which provides farmers access to scalable and sustainable financing, Cropital offers credit scoring application which NRBSL has outsourced to improve its credit granting methodology in servicing small farmers. Through an official agreement, the parties have formalized this pilot endeavor in the industry of rural banking particularly in the service of small agricultural finance. See More.....

Through the encouragement of President Emmanuel Herbosa of the Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP), NRBSL became the newest member from the Philippines of the Association of Development Financing Institutions in Asia and the Pacific (ADFIAP). During its 45th Annual Meetings held in Konrad Hotel Manila on October 26, 2022, ADFIAP welcome NRBSL in the roster of 120 member-institutions engaged in the financing of sustainable development initiatives in 42 countries and territories in Asia and the Pacific. Not to be outdone by bigger organizations, NRBSL submitted two projects as entries in as many categories and won in both fields. See More.....

After two years, the New Rural Bank of San Leonardo (N.E.), Inc. once again conducted its annual blood-letting activity with a tag line “Donate Blood, Save Lives”. The event was facilitated by Philippine Red Cross Bulacan Chapter. Ricardo A. Villacorte who was once a branch manager of NRBSL and now PRC Bulacan Chapter head led his team of volunteers to administer blood extraction among NRBSL personnel including relatives and friends last September 10, 2022 at the bank’s Training Room NRBSL Bldg. Diversion San Leonardo Nueva Ecija. The said activity becomes successful with a total of 43 successful donors.
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With the theme “Promoting Health and Cleanliness in the Workplace”, NRBSL launched last August 12, 2022 a bank-wide campaign to promote clean and green working environment. The launching coincided with simultaneous beautification activities in all 24 branch offices of the Bank with an overwhelming participation of employees who acknowledge that keeping work areas conducive and clean is essential for business, health and the environment.
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