BANKING ON YOU: A Client Service Workshop for Rural Banks

9 June 2006

FOR : ALL PARTICIPATING RURAL BANKS

FROM : (SGD)GEN. WILLIAM K. HOTCHKISS III (ret.), President

SUBJECT : CIRCULAR LETTER: BANKING ON YOU: A Client Service Workshop for Rural Banks

Dear Fellow Rural Bankers:

The Rural Bankers Association of the Philippines (RBAP), through the Rural Bankers Research and Development Foundation, Inc. (RBRDFI) is pleased to announce that it will conduct the seminar-workshop described below:

Course Title: Banking on You: A Client Service Workshop for Rural Banks
Venue: RBAP Conference Room, 2nd floor RBAP Bldg., A. Soriano Ave. cor. Arzobispo St., Intramuros, Manila
Schedule: June 29-30, 2006 (Thursday and Friday), 8:00AM – 5:00PM
Duration: 2 days

Detailed information about this Seminar-Workshop is provided in the attached course outline.

In this connection, we would like to enjoin all rural banks to send their bank front liners including managers, cashiers, tellers, new accounts officers and credit/loan officers to attend the above-mentioned Seminar. Please find below the guidelines covering the allowable expenses that each participant is entitled to, as follows:

1. Registration fee of P3,700.00 (Three Thousand Seven Hundred Pesos);
2. Actual transportation expenses from the rural bank to the venue and back.

 Non-member rural banks will be charged thrice the regular registration fee.
To avail of the regular fee, non-member banks are encouraged to apply for membership with RBAP. Please call RBAP for details

* Per diem and representation allowances of participants shall be provided based on the policies and procedures of each rural bank.

It is understood that the abovementioned expenses shall be borne by the rural banks concerned.

Should these arrangements meet your approval, we thereby request you to submit to us not later than June 23, 2006 the following:

1. A non-refundable commitment fee of P1,850.00 (50% of the registration fee) per participant. Payments could be remitted to the Rural Bankers’ Research and Development Foundation, Inc. bank account (Land Bank of the Philippines – Intramuros Branch Savings Account Number 0012-1046-26). Proof of payment (i.e., deposit slip) should be sent immediately to RBAP via facsimile for verification. Our facsimile number is (02) 527-2980.
2. Nomination form, form attached, of the participant duly endorsed by the bank President/authority
3. Filled-up Participant’s Profile, form attached.

Please be advised that we will be accepting up to thirty (30) participants only. Participants will be accepted on a first-come-first-served basis. We reserve the right to limit the number of participants to a manageable level. Early bird registrants, or those whose full payment is received by RBAP on or before 19 June 2006, are entitled to a 5 percent discount or P 3,515.00. Participants who have paid but fail to show up for the seminar will only be entitled to a 50 percent rebate.

Thank you very much.

Nomination Form
Profile Sheet
Course Outline