Ty-led Metropolitan Bank & Trust Co. (Metrobank) has appointed Anthony Paul Yap as head of its Institutional Banking Sector, with the rank of executive vice president, effective January 2027.
Yap is currently chairman of ORIX Metro Leasing and Finance Corp. and a non-executive director of Metropolitan Bank (China) Ltd. (MBCL).
Since July 1, Yap has served as deputy head of Metrobank’s Institutional Banking Sector, supporting the leadership transition and ensuring continuity in the sector’s strategic direction.
He has 29 years of banking experience spanning trading, treasury, branch banking, corporate banking and overseas banking.
Yap began his banking career at Metrobank in June 1997 as head of fixed-income trading and liquidity management.
In November 2004, he joined Standard Chartered Bank, where he worked in foreign exchange forwards trading. He later became chief dealer for the bank’s emerging-markets foreign exchange trading before leaving in March 2013.
Yap returned to the Metrobank Group in January 2016 as a board member of First Metro Asset Management Inc.
