It offers a wide range of services, including financing and leasing, foreign exchange and stock brokerage, investment banking, and asset management through its subsidiaries.At the time, SBTC was the first privately owned, Filipino-controlled bank of the post-World War II era.The bank's head office was first located in the Don Roman Santos Building on Plaza Goiti, moving to Escolta in 1954.Beginning in the 1960s, Security Bank started expanding outside Metro Manila as well, with the opening of its first provincial branch in Angeles City.Towards the end of the 1970s, the bank was granted permission to operate a foreign currency division by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas.