September 05, 2022 T O : All PESONet Participant Banks/Institutions R E : CHANGE IN CORPORATE NAME – COMMUNITY RURAL BANK OF ROMBLON) 1. We refer to the attached letter received today from Mr. David dela Paz, President of Community Rural Bank of Romblon, Inc., informing PCHC of the bank’s change in corporate name, to wit: “NETBANK (A RURAL BANK), INC.” 2. The change in name was approved by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) pursuant to Circular Letter No. CL- 2022-068 issued by the office of the Deputy Governor-Financial Supervision Sector of the BSP dated August 31, 2022. 3. As such, PCHC shall implement the requested change in PESONet system effective September 12, 2022. 4. Please be guided accordingly.

September 1, 2022 T O : All PESONet Participant Banks/Institutions R E : PARTICIPATION OF GOTYME BANK CORPORATION IN PESONet 1. We are pleased to announce the participation of GoTyme Bank Corporation (GoTyme) in the Phil. EFT System Operation Network (PESONet) effective September 05, 2022. 2. GoTyme’s business address is as follows: 30F Cyberscape Gamma, Topaz & Ruby Roads, Ortigas Center, City of Pasig, Philippines 3. It has an assigned BRSTN 01190-001-8 and will use BIC ‘GOTYPHM2XXX’. 4. The Bank successfully completed the required User Acceptance Test (UAT) using the available Front-end Application and has likewise submitted its Sign-Off to be included in production. 5. Kindly include the said bank in your respective PESONet participants’ directory and disseminate to your respective branches/offices. 6. Please be guided accordingly.

September 01, 2022 TO : All Clearing Banks/Institutions RE : NEW CLEARING PARTICIPANTS/BRSTN REGISTER UPDATES 1. With reference to various request letters/notices received from the clearing participant banks, we enumerate hereunder the following updates to the PCHC clearing participant banks/BRSTN Register and Operating Parameter, viz: 1.1 New Clearing Participants BANK/BRANCH BRSTN ADDRESS RCBC - Raffles Ortigas 01028-252-0 G/F Unit 102 Raffles Corporate Center F. Ortigas Jr. Avenue (Formerly Emerald Ave.), Ortigas Center, Pasig City RCBC - Mactan - LG Garden 02028-031-8 LG Garden Walk, Mactan, Cebu Walk LBP - Acropolis 01035-122-8 Units 5 & 6 and 7 Village Center, #187 E. Rodriguez Jr. Ave., Bagumbayan, Acropolis, Quezon City LBP - Bohol Avenue 01035-125-7 UCPB Bldg., Sgt. Esguerra cor. Quezon Ave., Quezon City, South Triangle, Q.C. LBP - Diliman 01035-126-0 J & L Bldg., #23 Matalino St., Diliman, Quezon City LBP - Tomas Morato 01035-130-9 F.C. Bldg., #290 T. Morato Ave., Quezon City LBP - Padre Faura 01035-138-3 G/F Unit #1322 Golden Empire Tower Bldg., Roxas Blvd LBP - Munoz - QC 01035-147-7 #304 Roosevelt Ave. corner M.H. Del Pilar Sts., San Fernando Del Monte, Quezon City LBP - Paso De Blas 01035-148-0 Servando Bldg., Brgy. Paso de Blas, Malinta Valenzuela City LBP - Visayas Avenue 01035-151-6 Far East Asia Commercial Complex, #282 Visayas Ave., Quezon City LBP - P. Paterno 01035-200-7 713 P. Paterno Street corner Quezon Boulevard, Barangay 307, Quiapo, Manila 1001 DBP - Urdaneta 05059-002-3 Magic Mall Urdaneta, Alexander Street, Urdaneta City, Pangasinan BDO NB - Negros Oriental - 20118-005-9 342 National Highway, Poblacion, Sibulan, Negros Sibulan Oriental BDO NB - Tarlac - La Paz 22118-004-2 1st Building, La Paz Commercial Building, A. Talon St., Barangay San Isidro, La Paz, Tarlac 1.2. Relocation/Change in Branch Name and/or Address BRSTN BANK/BRANCH NAME FROM TO 01053-012-0 BDO – Gandara 811-813 Gandara Street, Sta. 7/F, 321 Dasmarinas St., Cor. Cruz, Manila Marquina St., Brgy. 290, Binondo, Manila 08118-012-7 BDO NB – Iloilo-Banate Banate, Iloilo G/F, Veronica Space Rental, Real St. Poblacion, Banate, Iloilo 2. Pursuant to C ICS O M N o. 17-004 dated 18 January 2017, the aforementioned updates will be implemented effective September 01, 2022. 3. For your information and guidance.

25 August 2022 MEMO TO : All CICS AND participating banks/Institutions SUBJECT : NON-GENERATION OF ECCS REPORTS IN CICS-AWS MIGRATION 1. As previously mentioned in meetings/several emails with CICS participant banks, we wish to again remind that all ECCS reports will no longer be available when the CICS Backend System is finally migrated to the AWS Cloud which is targeted to GO LIVE on September 23, 2022. 2. In lieu of the dropped ECCS Reports, PCHC has provided a number of CSV files that contain similar data/information that can be utilized by member banks in the daily reconciliation of their transactions. Samples of these files were already made available for download in the ongoing test exercises that banks perform in preparation for the CICS migration. 3. Below are some notable features of the CICS-AWS System, to wit: 3.1. New CSV files for reconciliation purposes were made available for download after cut-off: 3.1.1. Branch wise Settlement file Format The file contains the same information found in the old CRB report. Banks would be able to use this report to reconcile the daily total outward and total inward transactions of each branch/bank. This report will also be the replacement of the old ECCS OTR and ITR reports. 3.1.2. ICL Received Log File Format The file contains the list of all valid inward ICL files from PCHC which banks can use to compare against the list of ICL files receive/processed by their Frontend system. 3.1.3. ICL Presented Log File Format The file contains the list of all valid outward ICL files received by PCHC which banks can use to compare against the list of ICL files sent by their Frontend system to PCHC. 3.2. Centralized validation of ICL files. 3.3. Duplicate checking extended from 4 days to 180 days (6 months) 3.4. MTF file availability with the existing format but with a different filename. 3.5. A virtual machine can now be deployed as a PBM server. 4. It may be recalled that PCHC despite the high costs of system maintenance, license renewal and the obsolescence of the entire ECCS system continued to provide the ECCS reports for banks that are not yet ready when we implemented CICS many years ago with a caveat that concerned banks would work on ways on how to use CICS generated reports for their respective internal processes. 5. As ECCS reports will definitely be dropped, PCHC may study the setting up of a new infrastructure just for the purpose provided the affected or concerned banks are willing to shoulder all the costs mentioned above including the potential costs for the migration activities needed to interface ECCS with the CICS-AWS system. 6. We would appreciate receiving information from concerned banks on their willingness to shoulder the cost if generation of ECCS reports shall be pursued. 7. For information and guidance.

August 23, 2022 T O : All Clearing Banks/Institutions R E : NO CLEARING AND SETTLEMENT ON AUGUST 24, 2022 1. Pursuant to PhilPaSS Advisory No. BPU-2022-062 dated August 23, 2022, please be informed that PCHC offices will likewise be closed and will resume clearing operations on Thursday, August 25, 2022. 2. Malacañang has suspended work in government offices in Metro Manila and nearby provinces due to severe tropical storm Florita. 3. As CICS and PESONet platforms are open 24/7, both shall remain open to accept transmitted transactions for settlement on August 25, 2022. All other services shall be closed. 4. Morning returns cut-off of CICS for August 23 transactions will be until 8:00 AM of August 25, 2022. 5. CICS Transactions already received today for August 24 prior to tagging of holiday will be processed separately, value-dated August 25, 2022. As such, there will be two (2) clearing files for August 25, 2022. 6. Please be guided accordingly.

August 19, 2022 T O : All PAS Participating Banks R E : 1. UPDATE ON THE ON-GOING UAT ACTIVITIES FOR PAS 6 2. SIGNING OF PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT . 1. Please be informed that the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) period for PAS 6 has been extended until August 26, 2022. This is in response to requests received from a number of participants that have yet to complete their respective test activities and validations. In the meantime, we wish to express our sincere appreciation to the following banks for having actively participated in Cycle 4 of the User Acceptance Testing of the PAS6 as of 19 August 2022: 1. BANCO DE ORO UNIBANK, INC. 2. BANGKOK BANK PUBLIC CO., LTD. 3. BANK OF CHINA 4. BANK OF COMMERCE 5. BANK OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 6. CHINA BANKING CORPORATION 7. CITIBANK, N. A. 8. DEUTSCHE BANK 9. DEVELOPMENT BANK OF THE PHILS. 10. EAST-WEST BANKING CORPORATION 11. HUA NAN COMMERCIAL BANK 12. LAND BANK OF THE PHILIPPINES 13. MIZUHO BANK, LTD. 14. MUFG BANK, LTD. 15. PHILIPPINE BUSINESS BANK 16. PHILIPPINE NATIONAL BANK 17. ROBINSONS BANK CORPORATION 18. SECURITY BANK CORPORATION 19. UNION BANK OF THE PHILS. 20. UNITED COCONUT PLANTERS BANK PCHC expects the foregoing banks to submit their respective sign offs to production before the September 1, 2022 Go live date. For other participants that are not yet on the list, we strongly encourage your participation during the extended UAT period. 2. On another subject, we likewise wish to inform that the BOC-PCHC Memorandum of Agreement on PAS 6 System has already been signed by the Commissioner of the Bureau of Customs (BOC). Banks may request for a soft copy of the said document by sending an email to our help desk at philclear@pchc.com.ph In this connection, PCHC would like to request AABs to sign new Participation Agreements on the PAS6 System (see attached) which includes the utilization of the PCHC Payment Gateway facility through the PAS 6 application before August 31, 2022. This is for the transmission of the collected payments of customs duties and fees from importers for the BOC as provided under Circular No. 638, Series of 2009, issued by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP). Soft copy of the duly accomplished PAS 6 Agreement can be emailed to philclear@pchc.com.ph on or before 31 August 2022 with the hard copy to be sent later to our PCHC Makati Office. Please note that non submission of the Agreement would mean non-participation of the bank in the PAS 6 system. 3. We look forward to your full support and cooperation.

August 09, 2022 T O : All PESONet Participant Banks/Institutions R E : RECALL OF PESONET MC NO. 22-101 (CHANGE IN CORPORATE NAME) 1. We are recalling earlier issued PESONet MC No. 22-101 dated August 08, 2022, advising the change of the participant bank’s corporate name from Community Rural Bank of Romblon, Inc. to NetBank (A Rural Bank), Inc. supposed to be implemented in PESONet effective August 12, 2022. 2. The recall was requested pending completion of approvals by the regulatory bodies. 3. As such, please maintain the name Community Rural Bank of Romblon, Inc. in your respective PESONet directories/front end system until further notice. 4. For your information and guidance.

August 16, 2022 MEMO TO : All Clearing Banks/Institutions SUBJECT : SUSPENSION OF BANKING OPERATIONS IN DAVAO CITY (CLEARING REGION 03) 1. We received a copy of Dabaw City Bankers Association, Inc. Resolution No. 2022-005, suspending banking operations in their area in view of Proclamation No. 39, declaring Friday, August 19, 2022, as Special (Non- Working) Day in Davao City in celebration of the Kadayawan Festival. 2. As such, there will be no outward clearing operations in Davao City on the said date except for returned items. 3. For information and guidance.

August 11, 2022 TO : All PAS5 Participating Banks/Institutions RE : CYCLE 4 USER ACCEPTANCE TESTING (UAT) FOR PAYMENT APPLICATION SECURE VERSSION 6 1. As announced during the briefing with representatives of PAS Authorized Agent Banks held on August 09, 2022, we wish to confirm that Payment Application Secure Version 6 or PAS6 will Go Live on September 1, 2022. 2. All AABs are expected to transition to PAS6 on the Go Live date, with the exception of PAS5 participants using the Host-to-Host feature of PAS5 who may use PAS5 until September 30, 2022. 3. Prior to Go Live date, PCHC shall be conducting another cycle of User Acceptance Testing (Cycle 4) for PAS6 from August 15-19, 2022. The PAS6 UAT Front-End which is open 24x7 can be accessed through the following link: Https://pas6.pchcdev.com. 4. AABs are reminded to ensure that they have at least one (1) enrolled importer in the PAS6 UAT to be able to receive test data from the Bureau of Customs during Cycle 4 of the UAT. 5. AABs that do not have any enrolled importer are encouraged to download the List of UAT Customs Client Numbers (CCNs) from the Download section of the PAS6 UAT Front-End. 6. AABs are expected to actively participate in the Cycle 4 of the User Acceptance Testing and complete the items in the PAS6 User Acceptance Test Scripts. A copy of the test scripts is attached to this Memo (Annex A) and may also be downloaded from the PAS6 UAT Front-End. 7. After completing the activities in the PAS6 UAT Test Scripts, AABs are requested to submit the attached UAT Sign- Off (Annex B) to philclear@pchc.com.ph no later than August 25, 2022. 8. We look forward to your full support and active participation.

August 08, 2022 T O : All PESONet Participant Banks/Institutions R E : CHANGE IN CORPORATE NAME – COMMUNITY RURAL BANK OF ROMBLON, LTD 1. We are advised by PPMI that the change in corporate name of Community Rural Bank of Romblon, Ltd. to “NETBANK (A RURAL BANK), INC.” has been approved by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP). 2. With the BSP approval, the said rural bank has been issued a new Certificate of Authority by the Financial Supervision Department VII of the BSP dated August 21, 2021. 3. In this connection, please be informed that PCHC will implement the change in name in its PESONet system effective August 12, 2022. 4. Kindly update your respective PESONet directories/front end systems. 5. Please be guided accordingly.