THE Land Bank of the Philippines has been designated as settlement bank for online transactions of the Department of Trade and Industry – Construction Industry Authority of the Philippines (DTI-CIAP).
LANDBANK will be working with DTI-CIAP, the Bureau of the Treasury (BTr), and PayMaya Philippines, Inc. to ensure the efficient settlement of online payments made by the DTI agency clients, and timely remittance of payments to the National Treasury.
Under the agreement, LANDBANK will maintain a “BTr-CIAP-PayMaya Clearing Account” wherein all collections or payments accepted and deposited by PayMaya, as a collecting agent, will be credited via the weAccess facility of the Bank. All funds credited to the clearing account are then automatically credited to the BTR-Other Agency Mother Account at the end of the day during batch processing.
The arrangement forms part of the quadripartite Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) signed by DTI Secretary and CIAP Board Chairman Ramon M. Lopez, National Treasurer Rosalia V. de Leon, LANDBANK President and CEO Cecilia C. Borromeo, and PayMaya Philippines Founder and CEO Orlando B. Vea on August 7, 2020.
Also present during the event were DTI Undersecretary Ireneo V. Vizmonte, DTI Assistant Secretary Mary Jean T. Pacheco, LANDBANK Branch Banking Sector Executive Vice President Julio D. Climaco, Jr., LANDBANK South NCR Branches Group Senior Vice President Ramon R. Monteloyola, and LANDBANK Buendia Branch Vice President Virgilio C. Paranial.
They were joined by Philippine Contractors Accreditation Board (PCAB) Chairman Pericles P. Dakay, PCAB Executive Director Atty. Herbert DG. Matienzo, Philippine Constructors Association President Wilfredo L. Decena, Philippine Domestic Construction Board and Philippine International Construction Board Executive Director Doris U. Gacho, United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Contracts Officer Representative Princess Shimmadar Manaois-Battung, and USAID Deliver Project Chief-of-Party Alexander Kitain.
“LANDBANK will ensure the efficient settlement of transactions and the remittance of payments to the National Treasury. Our expanded partnership represents another step towards our shared goal of providing convenient, reliable, and efficient payment options to our stakeholders,” LANDBANK President and CEO Borromeo said.
In 2018, LANDBANK and CIAP entered into an agreement for the utilization of the LANDBANK Link.BizPortal, which offers CIAP clients such as PCAB contractors, an alternative way to pay license and registration fees as well as other charges.
As of June 2020, Link.BizPortal has facilitated a total of 2,682 transactions for CIAP amounting to P15.32 million./PN
