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George Ty
Filipino banker and business magnate
George Siao Kian Ty (Chinese: 鄭少堅; pinyin: Zhèng Shàojiān; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tīⁿ Siáu-kian 18 October 1932 – 23 November 2018) was a Filipino banker and business magnate. He founded Metropolitan Bank and Trust Company, the second largest bank in both assets and capital in the Philippines.2
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Born Oct 18, 1932, died Nov 23, 2018.1
About
He owned stakes in Federal Land, Inc., the Bank of the Philippine Islands and Philippine Savings Bank, a Metrobank subsidiary. Ty was the owner of the G.T. International Tower in Makati.
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Companies
- GT CapitalFounder11
- Metropolitan Bank and Trust CompanyFounder12
Early life and education
- Date not recordedUniversity of Santo Tomas3
He was born to Norberto Ty and Victoria Ty-Tan. His father, Norberto, founded Wellington Flour Mills.
He attended the University of Santo Tomas, where he enrolled his bachelor's degree in commerce in 1955, but he later stopped his studies, to help his father in their flour mill business.
Because of his philanthropy and contributions in banking industry, his alma mater conferred him an honorary doctorate in humanities, Honoris Causa, on August 7, 2014.
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Career
Occupation: entrepreneur, banker.6
- Date not recordedFounded Metropolitan Bank and Trust Company4
- Date not recordedFounded GT Capital5
In 1962, he founded Metrobank, together with Emilio Abello, Pio Pedrosa and Placido Mapa Sr. Metrobank opened its first branch in 1963 and its first international branch in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1970. The subsidiaries of the company includes Toyota Motor Philippines Corporation, Philippine Savings Bank, SMBC Metro Investment Corporation, and Philippine AXA Life Insurance Corporation.
He also founded GT Capital Holdings Inc. in 2007, a holdings company which has business interests in auto dealership, banking, insurance, power and real estate.
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Personal life
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- 1WikidataGeorge Ty on Wikidata
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- 13Wikimedia CommonsGeorge Ty photo by TOTO LOZANO/PPD, Public domain