Registration of Securities - Philippine National Bank

2007 CORPORATION FINANCE DEPARTMENT IN THE MATTER OF PHILIPPINE NATIONAL BANK REGISTRATION OF SECURITIES NOTICE Notice is hereby given that on May 18, 2007, a sworn registration statement was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for and on behalf of PHILIPPINE NATIONAL BANK for the registration of the following: (1) Up to 78,260,870 unissued common shares that may be offered and sold by way of a primary offering; and (2) Up to 11,739,130 unissued or outstanding common shares to cover any over-allotments. The offer price shall be computed based on the volume-weighted average trading price of the Shares in the PSE for certain days that will determined by PNB and ending on a date in 2007 subject to the discount or 0-10%. According to the papers presented, the following persons are the officers/directors of the corporation: HCSEcI NAME POSITION Florencia G. Tarriela Chairperson Oman Bryon T. Mier Vice Chairman/President & CEO Ricardo M. Tan Director Domingo Tee Chua Director Washington SyCip Director Lucio C. Tan Director Macario U. Te Director Virgilio A. Angelo Director Feliciano L. Miranda, Jr. Director Florido P. Casuela Director Eric O. Recto Director Renato J. Fernandez Corporate Secretary Anthony Q. Chua Executive Vice President Asterio L. Favis, Jr. Executive Vice President Carmen G. Huang Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer & Chief of Staff to the President Cris S. Cabalatungan First Senior Vice President Renato A. Castillo First Senior Vice President Michael O. de Jesus First Senior Vice President Cynthia V. Javier First Senior Vice President Ramon L. Lim First Senior Vice President Edgardo T. Nallas First Senior Vice President Ma. Elena S. Sarmiento First Senior Vice President & Trust Officer Isabelita M. Watanabe First Senior Vice President Christian Jerome O. Dobles Senior Vice President Rafael Z. Sison Senior Vice President Alvin Go Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Counsel Said registration statement and other papers/documents attached thereto are open to inspection by interested parties during business hours and copies thereof, photostatic or otherwise, shall be furnished to every party at such reasonable fees as the Commission may prescribe. (SGD.) JUSTINA F. CALLANGAN Director Published in The Manila Times on June 1 & 4, 2007.