First Metro president Jose Patricio Dumlao (second from right) holds the Cesar E.A. Virata Award for Best Securities House. With him are (from left) First Vice President and Sales and Distribution Group head Peter Anthony Bautista, Vice President and Treasury Group head Anna Graziela Banaad, and Executive Vice President and Investment Banking Group Head Daniel Camacho. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
FIRST Metro Investment Corp., the investment banking arm of the Metrobank Group, was awarded the Cesar E.A. Virata Award for Best Securities House (Investment House Category) by the Philippine Dealing System Holdings Corp. (PDS Group) in its 2022 PDS Annual Awards.