Enrico Cruz

Regis Partners, Inc. provides brokerage services. The private company is based in Taguig, Philippines. The Filipino company was founded in 1999. Emmanuel O. Bautista has been the CEO of the company since 1999.

Deutsche Bank AG (Manila) is the Philippines-based division of Deutsche Bank AG (NYSE: DB) in Germany. The firm was established in the Philippines in 1975 when the European Asian Bank opened a representative office. In 1986, European Asian Bank became Deutsche Bank (Asia) and in 1988 Deutsche Bank (Asia) was merged into Deutsche Bank AG. They obtained a commercial banking license in mid-1995 and consist of joint venture Deutsche Regis Partners and subsidiary Deutsche Knowledge Services. Based in Makati City, Deutsche Bank (Manila) is a socially responsible investor which is active in local philanthropic activities through the Deutsche Bank Asia Foundation. Charitable projects focus on alleviating the impact of urban poverty and promoting education to underprivileged children. They also contribute funds, via the Deutsche Bank Asia Foundation, to emergency relief and medical assistance efforts. Deutsche Bank (Manila) offers local markets advice and execution across debt and equity financing including interest rate, credit, equity, foreign exchange and derivative trading, advice on mergers and acquisitions, as well as transaction banking products and services for cash management, domestic custody and trade finance.

The Philippine Dealing and Exchange Corp (PDEx) is licensed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as an Exchange under the provisions of the Securities Regulation Code (SRC). In this capacity, PDEx provides a centralized & efficient infrastructure for trading securities which ensures price discovery, transparency and investor protection. In July 2006, SEC formally recognized PDEx as a Self-Regulatory Organization (SRO) in the Inter-Dealer Market and is thus vested with the responsibility of formulating the requisite market rules, undertaking surveillance and enforcing compliance in the inter-dealer market. In November 2007, the SEC expanded the SRO registration of PDEx to cover the Inter-Professional Market, and in February 2008, its SRO authority was expanded to cover its members in all markets within the PDEx Trading Systems. Trading on the PDEx platform is done through a state-of-the-art trading engine called X-Stream that was developed by Computershare Markets Technology and customized for Philippine market conditions. Trading Participants are provided a front-end system (the Fixed Income Trading Workstation, FITW) through which quotes can be entered and/or amended and where transactions are eventually executed. The electronic system displays live bid and offer quotes and publishes transaction data to Trading Participants allowing for price discovery. In addition, real-time fixed income market information is published on subscription basis through the PDEx MarketPage locally, and through PDEx data pages on REUTERS globally.