For eight years in a row, First Metro Investment Corp., the investment banking arm of the Metrobank Group, wins the Top Corporate Securities Market Maker at the 2019 PDS Annual Awards. It also ranks fifth in two categories: Top 5 Fixed Income Dealing Participants and Top 5 Corporate Issue Managers/Arrangers (Investment House). Wholly-owned subsidiary First Metro Securities Brokerage Corp. ranks fourth in the Top 5 Depository Brokering Participants category. Attending the awarding ceremony are (from left) Philippine Dealing & Exchange Corp. president and chief operating officer Antonino Nakpil, Securities and Exchange Commission commissioner Vicente Felizmenio, First Metro vice president Melissa Dimayuga, First Metro first vice president Arsenio Kenneth Ona and PDS officer-in-charge Ma. Teresa Ravalo.