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+ April 26, 2021 QUOTING Charles Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities), Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) Chairman Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala (JAZA) described what 2020 was like for the country and for BPI during the bank s annual stockholders meeting held last Thursday, April 22. It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. It was a spring of hope. And it was a winter of despair.
JAZA narrated a chronology of the worst events that happened last year the Taal Volcano eruptions, Covid-19 and the imposition of the strictest lockdown measures, the series of earthquakes in Mindanao and the two super typhoons just before the year ended.
Ignacio R. Bunye
Quoting Charles Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities), Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) Chairman Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala (JAZA) described what 2020 was like for the country and for BPI during the bank’s annual stockholders meeting held last Thursday.
“It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. It was a spring of hope. And it was a winter of despair.”
JAZA narrated a chronology of the worst events that happened last year – the Taal Volcano eruptions, COVID-19 and the imposition of the strictest lockdown measures, the series of earthquakes in Mindanao and the two super typhoons just before the year ended.
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