{"id":20783,"date":"2011-03-15T13:54:08","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T13:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2011\/03\/15\/232522\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T12:50:23","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T12:50:23","slug":"armenian-converse-bank-intends-to-increase-number-of-plastic-cards-20-by-end-of-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2011\/03\/15\/20783\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Converse Bank intends to increase number of plastic cards 20% by end of this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YEREVAN, March 15. \/ARKA\/.<\/strong> Armenian Converse Bank intends to increase the number of plastic cards at least by 20% by the end of this year, Tigran Davtyan, the bank\u2019s executive director, said Monday at a news conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe number of the active cards issued by the Converse Bank is 50,000 now,\u201d he said. \u201cWe plans to increase the number of cards, also including the issue of Master<\/p>\n<p>Card Woman\u2019s Card, at least by 5,000. But that\u2019s not enough. The number of cards will grow at least by 20% by the end of this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Converse Bank issued recently<\/p>\n<p>Master Card WOMAN`S CARD on the occasion on women\u2019s holidays.<\/p>\n<p>Cardholders will enjoy special discounts in more than 160 trade outlets, beauty salons as well as medical and spa centers.<\/p>\n<p>Davtyan said that the bank is among leaders in Armenian banking system on salary projects. It cooperates with employers in Armenia.<\/p>\n<p>He said that salary cards constitute 30% of the total number of the bank-issued cards.<\/p>\n<p>Converse Bank was established in 1993.<\/p>\n<p>Advanced Global Investments LLC (Argentina) holds 95% of the bank\u2019s shares, and the remaining 5% belong to Armenian  Apostolic Church.<\/p>\n<p>The Converse Bank has 25 branches with more than 600 employees in 13 cities in Armenia. M.V.-0&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>According to ARKA News Agency\u2019s data, the bank\u2019s assets totaled about AMD 89.7 billion and liabilities AMD 73.2 billion in late December 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Its total capital amounted to AMD 16.4 billion and loan portfolio AMD 42.7 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Converse Bank\u2019s liabilities toward clients totaled AMD 55.7 billion and net profit for 2010 amounted to AMD 1.4 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The bank has 28 branches. ($1= AMD 367.85). -0-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armenian Converse Bank intends to increase the number of plastic cards at least by 20% by the end of this year.<\/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":[15837,12321,12491],"class_list":{"0":"post-20783","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-cards","10":"tag-converse-bank"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20783","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=20783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}