FYI lang po. You can use your BDO peso account for wire transfer transactions may it be sending a payment for your tuition or buying GIC. You just need to ask yung nag-paprocess nang ganun sa BDO (international wire transfer), kasi even the manager doesn't know what would be the process. Nung pumunta ako noon, the manager told us na kelangan pa iconvert nang dollar but yung nag-paprocess said pwedeng diretso from peso account and not dollar account. What I did was, may mga form na binigay, I think 3 forms (hindi ko na po alam exact names nung forms)
(1) wire transfer form (yung mga infos nang pag-ttransferan at yung account details mo sa BDO)
(2) I'm not sure sa tawag, pero it's a form na you're agreeing to buy a foreign money from them
(3) regarding you're liability sa pagpadala
May dadaanan na bank kaya it will take 3 days. Mine was 3 days lang kasi. We went to BPI as well, kaso parang mas mahal sila. 41.9976 vs 41.58. This is just a shared info, it's still your discretion which bank you would choose.