The Ty siblings are Arthur, Alfred, Alesandra and Anjanette. They are the children of George Ty, the founder of Metrobank and GT Capital. When he was 19, George Ty applied for a bank loan in order to start a business, but was turned down. That experience led to him starting his own bank a decade later. That bank today is the second largest in the Philippines, with close to a thousand branches. GT Capital has interests in banking and insurance, but also property development, automobiles and power generation and is one of the largest conglomerates in the Philippines.

The Ty siblings inherited stakes in both companies, with Arthur, the eldest of the four is the chairman of Metrobank.