{"id":17782,"date":"2010-12-07T15:22:40","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T15:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2010\/12\/07\/231962\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T12:49:13","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T12:49:13","slug":"lebanese-banks-negotiating-acquisition-of-one-of-armenian-banks-stakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2010\/12\/07\/17782\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanese banks negotiating acquisition of one of Armenian bank\u2019s stakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YEREVAN, December 7. \/ARKA\/<\/strong>. Lebanese banks are negotiating over acquisition of one of Armenian bank\u2019s stakes, Dr. Francois Bassil, chairman of the council of Byblos Bank Group and Byblos Bank Armenia CJSC, said at a news conference on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>There are Lebanese investments in Anelik Bank and negotiations with another bank are under way now,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Bassil didn\u2019t rule out probability of a merger of Byblos Bank Armenia with another bank.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have five banks in Lebanon \u2013 three foreign and two Lebanese,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Alan Tomen, member of Byblos Bank Group\u2019s board, added that this bank \u201cshould comply with our corporate bank culture\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In October 2007, Lebanese \u201cByblos Bank\u201d SAL became the holder of 65% shares of Byblos Bank Armenia.<\/p>\n<p>European Bank for Reconstruction and Development holds 25%, and the remaining 10% belong to OPEC International Development Fund.-0&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lebanese banks are negotiating over acquisition of one of Armenian bank\u2019s stakes, Dr. Francois Bassil, chairman of the council of Byblos Bank Group and Byblos Bank Armenia CJSC, said at a news conference on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[9214,9216],"tags":[15837,15418,12773,308],"class_list":{"0":"post-17782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-banks-en-en","7":"category-news","8":"tag-armenia-2","9":"tag-bank-en-2","10":"tag-lebanese","11":"tag-308"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}