The story unfolding before you in the following web-pages is a testament to all the hard work, dedication, and commitment of the men and women behind the New Rural Bank of San Leonardo who have endeavored to bring hard-to-come-by financial services to a greater number of enterprising poor in the rural and depressed urban areas.

This is the story of no ordinary bank which, from its inception, has committed to serve the poor and do something about their dire straits. Believing that poverty is unjust, but that the poor are bankable, the Bank labored from day one to live up to its conviction and its commitment. To date, NRBSL has reached more than 75,000 enterprising poor clients through its microfinance programs, transforming the lives of close to 400,000 family members, enterprise workers and business partners.

Currently operating in its home province of Nueva Ecija and in strategic areas of Tarlac and Bulacan, the Bank is poised to expand operations to the rest of Central Luzon by 2012. The Bank's network aims to reach out to all of the thirteen (13) cities of Central Luzon and more than half of its total municipalities and hundreds of barangays.

In this fast-changing world of information and communications technology, where developments have led to instant access through the Internet to every imaginable source of information, the New Rural Bank of San Leonardo, through this website, would like to bring the inspiration of banking with the poor and building local economies to more and more advocates, fellow bankers, regulators, government and non-government organizations, friends, both here in the Philippines and abroad.

Onto its fifteenth year of excellent banking, the New Rural Bank of San Leonardo has come of age, transforming itself from a small town rural bank, to a global worker for genuine development. This is the story of not only the Bank's past and its glorious history, not only of its formidable present, but also of its future and the future of Filipinos that already benefited and are bound to benefit from NRBSL's credo that combating poverty and building local economies will make a difference.

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Andres G. Panganiban

President

NRBSL CEO Quililan Elected NEFRB President

NRBSL's very own CEO, Mr. Abundio Quililan, Jr., is the new president of the Nueva Ecija Federation of Rural Banks (NEFRB) for the term 2008 to 2009. Upon his assumption of duty, Mr. Quililan lost no time in leading various activities of the ever-active federation. Among these activities: tree planting in San Felipe, Mapangpang in Munoz (06 August 2008), sponsorship of the symposium-orientation forum on the Rule of Procedure for Small Claims Cases (Supreme Court A.M. No. 08-8-7-SC) held at Microtel Suites, 27 November 2008 and the federation Christmas party celebration (05 December) with 1960s as theme for the costume and cultural numbers. Mr Quililan and fellow officers of the NEFRB have lined up more activities in 2009, among them are symposia and briefings on foreclosure law and proceedings and BP 22 (anti-bouncing checks law).

BSP Grants NRBSL Authority to Accept Foreign Currency Deposits

In time for its Christmas and New Year offering, NRBSL is now accepting dollar and yen deposits from the public. Licensed by virtue of BSP Monetary Board Resolution No. 1283 dated 02 October 2008, NRBSL was granted authority to open foreign currency deposit unit or FCDU, one of the first rural banks to avail and qualify so under the guidelines cited in Republic Act 6426 (An Act Instituting A Foreign Currency Deposit System in the Philippines).