Asiatrust and PayPal Bank Codes
Tuesday, January 29, 2008

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I have been using PayPal for several years now since I have a credit card and savings account based in the US. But with my current setup, it's very difficult to withdraw money since I have to ask my relatives to send it to me via money remittance. That's why I was so happy to learn that I can now add Philippine banks with my Philippine PayPal account.

One of my savings account is with Asiatrust. I asked Lalaine to call them for me for the bank's 9-digit code. As usual, their hotline is clueless on PayPal. Instead of the bank code that PayPal needs, they gave Lalaine an 8-character code: MRMDUS33. Turns out that this is a SWIFT code of HSBC.

Since calling their hotline again would prove useless, I decided to send an email. At least it's electronic and someone on the receiving end might at least be knowledgeable about these things right? I clearly specified on my email that I needed a 9-digit bank code and even included a link to eBay's list of Philippine Bank Codes. After 15 mins, I received this reply:

Sir,

Paypal is a bills payment facility available in the internet, unfortunately Asiatrust is not yet enrolled and included among other banks which can facilitate bills payment in the internet.

Fyi.

Thank you.


Coco Beltran
customerhotline(AT)asiatrustbank(DOT)com
924-5778

Posted by Jepoy @ 1/29/2008 10:19:00 PM
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Posted by  Mike Abundo on Saturday, February 2, 2008 1:03:00 AM GMT+08:00:  
There are so many things wrong with Coco's answer, I don't know where to start.

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