"One thing we always talk about at the UnionBank Innovation Camp is that, for us, IP patents aren't just legalities or papers on the wall…it represents the creative ideas of our employees and the values that we have established as a bank when we decided not just to digitize, but innovate," said Catherine Anne Bautista-Casas, UnionBank SVP and head of Blockchain and API Business Group, Metaverse Center of Excellence and Government Projects, who accepted the citation for the bank.