Wednesday, October 10 2012 17:53
CreditBank s.a.l. (Lebanon) increases its stake in Anelik Bank's capital from 69.5% to 89.95%
ArmInfo. The majority stakeholder of Anelik Bank - CreditBank s.a.l. (Lebanon) - has increased its stake in the Bank's capital from 69.5% to 89.95%. The stake of Chairman of the Board of Anelik Bank Samvel Chzmachyan has declined from 12.25% to 10.05%. The press service of Anelik Bank told ArmInfo that the relevant decision was taken at the recent meeting of the Bank's stakeholders.
"CreditBank s.a.l. became a strategic and majority stakeholder of Anelik Bank with a 51% stake in 2009. I hope the recent changes will have a positive effect on the further development of the Bank and will expand the geography of the Anelik international money transfer system towards the Middle East. Today our money transfer system is the most popular in the CIS and is one of the recognizable financial brands", Chzmachyan said.
To recall, Anelik Bank was the first Armenian bank to create its own international money transfer system Anelik in 1997. the system operates in 500 banks of the world. Anelik Bank is the only bank in the Armenian banking sector that has a subsidiary bank (Anelik Ru LLC) in Moscow, which specializes in the Anelik money transfers. Over the first half of 2012, a total of 835 thsd transactions worth $450 mln were carried out under the Anelik system (34% y-o-y growth in the number of transactions). In the first half of 2012, the share of inflow of transfers made up 80%, and the share of outflow - 20%.
As of 1 June 2012, the total capital of Anelik Bank amounted to 14.2 bln AMD, assets - 76.9 bln AMD, provision of crediting - over 45 bln AMD.
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