{"id":250202,"date":"2022-02-16T11:12:55","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T11:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2022\/02\/16\/250202\/"},"modified":"2022-02-16T11:12:55","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T11:12:55","slug":"executive-director-of-uba-does-not-rule-out-a-possible-merger-or-acquisition-in-local-banking-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2022\/02\/16\/250202\/","title":{"rendered":"Executive director of UBA does not  rule out  a possible merger or acquisition in  local banking sector"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>YEREVAN, February 16. \/ARKA\/.<\/strong> The Executive Director of the Union of Banks of Armenia (UBA) Seyran Sargsyan didn&#8217;t rule out\u00a0 a possible merger or acquisition in the local banking sector in 2022, saying also that new players may appear in the market as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Such transactions are not made public until the deal is finalized. I don&#8217;t rule out such a deal or deals, but now I can&#8217;t say specifically whether they will happen or not,&#8221; he said at a press conference on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier, the Chairman of the Central Bank of Armenia Martin Galstyan said in this regard that bankers and investors are constantly discussing mergers, sales and new investments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are currently 17 commercial banks operating in Armenia. -0-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Executive Director of the Union of Banks of Armenia (UBA) Seyran Sargsyan didn&#8217;t rule out\u00a0 a possible merger or acquisition in the local banking sector in 2022, saying also that new players may appear in the market as well<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":195278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[9214,9216],"tags":[586],"class_list":{"0":"post-250202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-banks-en-en","8":"category-news","9":"tag-586"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250202","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=250202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}