Updated January 5, 2015
Send money to the Philippines using these BDO remittance partners in New York:
LMI Delivery Express Inc.
6702 Roosevelt Avenue
Woodside New York 11377
Phone: (718) 426-0035
New York Bay Philippines
61 Broadway Suite 1417
New York 10006
Placid Express
3501 Queens Blvd., Long Island City
New York 11101
Prabhu Group Inc.
37-15 73rd Street, Jackson Heights
New York 11372
RIA Financial Services
For the nearest location, call: 1-800-331-8714 (USA)
RIA Branches in New York City:
Branch NY291 4776 Broadway
Branch NY292 136 Nagle Avenue Store #7
Branch NY293 3890 Broadway
Branch NY322 4149 Broadway
Branch NY349 202 E 116th St
Branch NY465 3430 Broadway
Branch NY513 306 Audubon Av
7-Eleven Branches in New York City:
Branch 33579 1453 3rd Ave
Branch 33616 1594 York Ave
Branch 34707 247 3RD Ave
Branch 34764 333 E 23rd Street
Branch 34917 1412 1st Ave
Branch 35057 171 Madison Ave
Branch 35300 224 5th Ave
Branch 35308 351 Bowery
Branch 35866 2567 Broadway
Branch 39102 140 Church St
Branch 39308 535 8th Ave
Branch 39466 673 8th Ave
7-Eleven Branches in Long Island:
Branch 33574 31-31 Thomson Ave, Long Island
Branch 35314 50-92 Northern Blvd, Long Island
7-Eleven Branches in Woodside:
Branch 34139 61-19 Northern Blvd., Woodside
Branch 34439 59-01 Roosevelt Ave., Woodside
For other locations in New York City, call: 1-800-331-8714 (USA)
or go to riafinancial.com
You can also Send Money ONLINE!
If you have a U.S. bank account, or a Visa, MasterCard or Discover credit card or debit card issued by any U.S. bank, you can send send up to $2,999 for only $4.99 through XOOM.
If you’re a Wells Fargo depositor, you can use the Wells Fargo ExpressSend service. Call 1–800–869–3557, or go to the Wells Fargo website wellsfargo.com, or you can go to a Wells Fargo branch.
You can explore the ONLINE and BRANCH services of these remittance companies which have partnered with BDO:
Moneygram
Uniteller
UAE Exchange Centre
New York Bay Philippines/Transfast
Remitly
Sigue Money Transfer
Transfast
XCoin.com
Xpress Money
LMI Delivery Express
Dear Nora Tamba,
We would like to open a checking account that we can use in paying accounts and obligations, post date some checks for use in the transactions in the Philippines, can we do an open it here in New York?. If this will be approved by the BDO, we would like to know what are your requirements in terms of documents. We are residents here in the NY, USA and dual citizens. How much is the required maintaining balance also. Please provide us a response. Thank you.
Hi Jose, sorry, BDO does not have a branch there in the USA. Its BDO’s remittance subsidiary (BDO Remit USA Inc.) and partners that operate there.
It’s only PNB and Metrobank that have bank branches there in the US, and its PNB Los Angeles that offers opening of PNB-based accounts and doing other Philippine banking transactions. I’m assuming New York is stricter — that’s why PNB New York and Metrobank New York do not offer assistance for Philippine-based transactions, based on their website.
But they might be able to help, you can contact them. This is Metrobank New York’s website and this is PNB New York’s website. And these are PNB Los Angeles’ banking services for Philippine transactions.