Friday, November 11 2016 19:08

ArmInfo. Anelik Bank CJSC announces a successful completion of additional share emission. The complete new stock of 405.511 shares was placed through closed subscription. The Bank has attracted a new shareholder and increased its share capital by AMD 21.8 billion, the press- service of the bank informs. As a result the bank's total capital increased to 36.7 bln drams (from previous 14.9 bln drams as of October 1). These shares were purchased by Cyprus FISTOCO LTD, the share of which in the bank's capital totals 59.68%, as a result the share of previously sole shareholder Lebanese Bank CreditBank S.A.L decreased from 100% to 40.32%. Tarek J. Khalefe (CreditBank S.A.L) and Vartan Dilanyan (FISTOCO LTD) are indirect majority shareholders.

The shareholders brought together a new Council of the Bank comprising experienced and senior market professionals. Vartan Dilanyan (Managing Director of "Accenture" Ltd) became the Chairman of the Council. Karen Margaryan (Professor at the Chair of Economics and Management of the Moscow University of Finance and Law), Maksim Morozov (Chairman of the Management Board of "B&N BANK Stolitsa" OJSC), Agop Kassarjian (member of the Lebanon branch of the Arabian markets coordination committee), Mazen A. Shehayeb (CreditBank S.A.L. - Head of Foreign subsidiaries coordination, Lebanon) are members of the Council. The Board of the bank did not face any changes and is head by Nerses Karamanukyan.

"The successful placement of additional shares rdemonstrated real investment interest toward the Armenian financial market and will enable further growth of the business in the near term", said Vartan Dilanyan, the new Chairman of the Council.

Based on the new partner's experience, a new strategy will be introduced to develop the Bank to one of the leading players in the Armenian banking system. The Bank's clients will be offered a refreshed lineup of banking products, based on best international practices, the clients' expectations and frontier technological solutions.

Vartan Dilanyan was born in 1971 in Moscow. In 1994 graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, then Moscow School of Management "Skolkovo".  In 2008-2011 held managerial positions at "B&N Bank" OJSC. In 2008 appointed to the position of the Chairman of the "B&N Bank" OJSC. Since 2011 works at "Accenture" PLC consulting company. Currently holds the office of the Head of Representative office of "Accenture" PLC (concurrently); Head of the Branch of "Accenture Technology Ventures B.V" CJSC in Kazakhstan, as well as the Managing Director of "Accenture" Ltd, in the Operational Group of Financial Services. 

To note, Credit Bank S.A.L. (Lebanon) became the sole owner of Anelik Bank in 2013 increasing its stake from 89.95% to 100% in Q4 2013.