Claire Ann Yap

Claire Ann T. Yap, HSBC senior vice president for personal financial services and head of cards, traced this to the acceptability and more usage of the plastic money in supermarkets, restaurants and other dining places, travel and entertainment outlets and gasoline station as well.

This stemmed from the increasing savvy taste of consumers.

To demonstrate the possibilities of this travel offer, HSBC's Claire Ann Yap and Laine Santana in tandem with PAL's Barbara Aragon and Ria Domingo headed a group of Cebu and Manila media for a Bohol Exploration Tour.

Corp.; Claire Ann Yap, senior vice president and head of cards, HSBC; Lourdes Bautista, director, ING Bank; Mona Montemayor, VP-Private Banking, ING Bank; Clarisse Gener, director, Innove; Dittas For-moso, director of Microsoft Services, Micro-soft Phils.; Gina Campos, GM, Northwest Airlines; Zelda Vermeulen, wife of Siemens, Inc.'s CEO, and Cynthia Mamon, president and managing director, Sun Microsystems Phils., Inc.

"For every P45 charged to the credit card of an HSBC Mabuhay Miles cardholder, he earns one air mile (or one point)," says Claire Yap, senior vice president and head of credit cards for HSBC.

A cardholder can accumulate points by using his credit card to shop, buy gas, pay for tuition and others.
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"[One of the reasons we chose Bohol] is it's new to most of us," says Yap as she welcomed the media group from Manila (mostly Bohol first-timers) and Cebu, at the Panglao Island Nature Resort.

Leading the cast were the head-turner Nikka Singson-Abes, marketing manager of Hewlett Packard Philippines Corp; the mesmerizing Claire Ann Yap, senior vice president and head of cards, HSBC; vivacious Clarisse Gener, director, Innove; Zelda Vermeulen, beautiful wife of the Siemens Inc.'s CEO, and other powerful ladies, dahlings.