After many months, the bank found one large manila envelope in a warehouse in the English Midlands but not, alas, the one containing an apricot-coloured curl from first daughter's first haircut.
Iain Mansfield, the director of trade and investment at the UK embassy in Manila, who declared that a British exit from the EU would free the City from "European interference", received his prize from the former chancellor Lord Lawson.
Department of foreign affairs spokesman Charles Jose said Manila was working with the employer of the nine workers, Austrian-owned VAOS Oil, and the Libyan government and embassies of the other foreigners abducted.
From Porto Alegre's participatory budgeting and the literally destratifying cable cars of Caracas, to Nairobi's "digital matatus" and the repurposed bus-ferries of Manila, the communities of the south are responsible for an ever-lengthening parade of social and technical innovations that rival anything the developed world has to offer for ingenuity and practical utility.
Incidentally, Next City reports that Manila is putting a bounty on rats.
But both "sides" point to cities like Manila, where the IFC designed a 25-year, $2.7bn concession in 1997, giving it part-ownership alongside other companies.
Bherlin Gildo, 37, who was arrested last October on his way from Copenhagen to Manila, was accused of attending a terrorist training camp and receiving weapons training between 31 August 2012 and 1 March 2013 as well as possessing information likely to be useful to a terrorist.
Gildo was was flying to Manila to join his wife, a Filipina, when he was stopped under schedule 7 of the 2000 Terrorism Act, the same statute used to question David Miranda, partner of the former Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, in 2013.
His version was made from two toughened strips coated with saltpetre and bound with Manila paper (today's crackers use silver formulate).
"I don't know if it is all (man's fault) but the majority is, for the most part, it is man who continuously slaps down nature," he said en route to Manila.
The Philippines government was recently criticised after it emerged it had tried to hide hundreds of homeless people in Manila during the pope's trip there this month.
