The country’s leading lender BDO Unibank has improved its global ranking among banks this year by 12 notches to 243rd place, based on the latest roster of “Top 1,000 World Banks” drawn annually by London-based publication The Banker.

The same list showed BDO keeping its bragging right as the leading bank in the Philippines based on the metrics used by The Banker: Strength, size, healthy earnings and stable performance.

Other banks that made it to this year’s roster and their respective rankings were: Metrobank (285th); Bank of the Philippine Islands (344th); Philippine National Bank (511st); Land Bank of the Philippines (652nd); Security Bank (655th); Rizal Commercial Banking Corp. (660th); China Bank (669th); Union Bank (760th); East West Bank (920nd) and Philtrust Bank (997th).

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