{"id":219969,"date":"2016-02-02T06:00:32","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T20:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=219969"},"modified":"2016-02-02T06:00:32","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T20:00:32","slug":"boh-opens-consolidated-branch-in-gualo-rai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/boh-opens-consolidated-branch-in-gualo-rai\/","title":{"rendered":"BoH opens consolidated branch in Gualo Rai"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_219972\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-219972\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/BOH-pix-300x169.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-219972\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Staff of Bank of Hawaii, including vice president and branch manager for Saipan Rose Sumor, pose before the ribbon-cutting ceremony in front of their newly-opened consolidated branch in Gualo Rai. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bank of Hawaii has now closed its two branches and opened a single branch in Gualo Rai along Chalan Pale Arnold Road. <\/p>\n<p>BOH announced since last October their plan to consolidate the two branches to the one at Springs Plaza.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very excited about the new Gualo Rai branch and have introduced a number of enhancements to improve the customer experience,\u201d West Pacific manager Hobbs Lowson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition to the added convenience provided at the new centralized location on Middle Road we are introducing envelope-free ATMs and bio metric safe deposit box access,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The BoH branch located at Marina Heights Business Park in Chalan Pale Arnold Road closed last Dec. 31. The branch located at Chalan Kanoa, on the other hand, closed last Jan. 29.<\/p>\n<p>The new branch was packed yesterday morning and there was quite a line of people wanting to have their transactions processed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI understand that it was busy this morning as a result of the grand opening and am glad that there was so much interest,\u201d Lowson said<\/p>\n<p>Asked if there is a possibility of opening up another branch, Lowson said there are no plans yet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have no plans for another branch at this time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Lowson, the automated teller machines in their old branches in Chalan Kanoa and Puerto Rico will be closed early this month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are evaluating alternatives. Customers are encouraged to use nearby ATMs,\u201d Lowson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bank of Hawaii has now closed its two branches and opened a single branch in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":219972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1351,197,6397,8197],"class_list":["post-219969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-chalan-kanoa","tag-gualo-rai","tag-hobbs-lowson","tag-saipan-rose-sumor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}