Filipino Finance, Mortgage and Insurance in Toronto

Atin Ito began in 1991 as a Filipino variety store and bakery in East York and grew into a remittance and balikbayan box business, run from its office on Pape Avenue. It sends money to the Philippines and picks up boxes for door-to-door delivery.

BDO Remit (Canada), Ltd. is the Canadian remittance office of BDO Unibank, the Philippine bank, on Yonge Street in Toronto. It sends money to BDO and other bank accounts and to cash pick-up points in the Philippines.

Toronto office of Metro Remittance (Canada), Inc., the Canadian remittance subsidiary of Metrobank, the Philippine bank, on St. Clair Avenue West. It sends money to bank accounts and cash pick-up points in the Philippines.

Olga Javier is a Filipino Level 2 mortgage agent with BRX Mortgage in North York who spent more than 10 years as a loans operations manager at a large Philippine bank. She arranges pre-approvals, refinancing, debt consolidation and alternative lending for Ontario homebuyers.

Scarborough branch of PNB Remittance Company (Canada), the remittance subsidiary of the Philippine National Bank, inside the Seafood City supermarket on Lebovic Avenue. It sends money to the Philippines and takes bills and SSS payments.

Reliable Group runs Reliable Cargo Express, founded in Toronto in 1998 to ship balikbayan boxes for Filipino-Canadians, and Reliable Peso Remit, its remittance arm since 2006. The main office is beside Scarborough Centre station, with branches on Wilson Avenue and Bathurst Street.