Metrobank Group’s investment banking arm, First Metro Investment Corp. and stockbrokerage house, First Metro Securities Brokerage Corp., win honors at the 2018 PDS Annual Awards. First Metro bagged the Top Corporate Securities Market Maker, Top 5 Fixed Income Brokering Participant (ranked third) and Top 5 Fixed Income Dealing Participant (third), while FirstMetroSec won Top 5 Depository Brokering Participant (fourth). Shown during the awarding ceremony are (from left) PDEx president and chief operating officer Antonino Nakpil, deputy treasurer of the Philippines Sharon Almanza, First Metro vice president Annagraziela Banaad, vice president David Ignacio Estacio, senior manager Bernice Joyce Nobleza, SEC commissioner Ephyro Luis Amatong and PDS Group president and chief executive Cesar Crisol.