PDIC updates on Rural Bank of Paranaque (RBoP)

PMT Forum member tacamonchi recently shared some useful updates about the Philippine Deposit Insurance Corporation’s (PDIC) takeover of the Rural Bank of Paranaque (Banco Paranaque) in the thread Legacy Financial Group’s rural banks.

Early this week, he visited RBoP’s Ortigas branch and was able to talk to a Ms. Hermie from the PDIC who graciously answered all his questions. Here are what he have gathered from the conversation.

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New Adsense format: Image Gallery ads

Call me whatever but it always excites me everytime I see a new ad format of Google Adsense. I previously wrote about the new ones I saw, including the four-button-ads-in-one unit, the new Times New Roman and Comic Sans fonts in the ad, and scrolling Adsense ads.

Yesterday, I saw an ad unit which does not seem to be a typical Adsense ad unit. I searched for it online but didn’t find information about it. The new ad is a mixture of the text, image, and scrolling ad formats, with thumbnail images which you can click on that enlarges each image. I call it the Adsense Image Gallery ad.

Here’s a screenshot of the ad unit I found at the PMT Forum.

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New Year bonus from PayPal: $80

Although Christmas Day didn’t turn out well for my online Adsense earnings, New Year’s Day wasn’t that bad because PayPal gifted me with a referral bonus of $80 on that day (see screenshot below).

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Happy 2009! Happy New Year!

From all of us here at Pinoy Money Talk, we wish you and your family a spectacular new year ahead.

Here’s to hoping the new year 2009 will bring you cheer, contentment, and, yes, wealth!

Share your New Year’s greetings with other PMT members in the Happy New Year to all PMT members and friends! thread.

Jail the Pangandamans!

You’ve probably heard it by now. Members of a clan of political elites are involved in an alleged mauling incident last week at the Valley Golf and Country Club in Antipolo City.

The suspects: Masiu, Lanao del Sur Mayor Nasser Pangandaman, Jr. and his 5 bodyguards. Father Nasser Sr., Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) Secretary, reportedly just watched while the victims, a 56-year-old and a 14-year-old boy, were beaten up.

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Adsense income down on Christmas Day

December 25 did not exactly bring me joy and cheer because my online earnings that day from Google Adsense was disappointingly low. In fact, my Adsense income during Christmas Day was the lowest in recent weeks.

As seen in the graph below, PinoyMoneyTalk.com registered the lowest pageviews (orange line) and online income (blue line) during Christmas Day.

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Peso down 15% in 2008

Past performance is definitely not a guarantee of future results.

In 2007, the Philippine Peso was Asia’s best performing currency, up 18.8% against the US Dollar, closing at P41.28 at the end of the year.

In 2008, this situation has reversed. The peso is now one of the worst performing currencies in Asia, closing at P47.52 to the dollar in December 24, the last trading day of the year. This is a 15% decline from the P41.28 level at the beginning of 2007.

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