{"id":80280,"date":"2014-10-10T08:40:13","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T08:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2014\/10\/10\/241588\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T13:13:52","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:13:52","slug":"consolidation-of-armenian-banks-unavoidable-ruben-vardanyan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2014\/10\/10\/80280\/","title":{"rendered":"Consolidation of Armenian banks unavoidable \u2013 Ruben Vardanyan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YEREVAN, October 10. \/ARKA\/.<\/strong> Consolidation of Armenia\u2019s banks is unavoidable, member of Ameriabank CJSC Managerial Board Ruben Vardanyan told reporters in Yerevan on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-one banks in a country &#8211; it is too many, Vardanyan told ARKA.<\/p>\n<p>Amalgamation of banking institutions is needed to ensure efficiency and compliance with international standards, including that in terms of lending capacities, he said.<\/p>\n<p>It is an unavoidable process, and investments and new stockholders should be attracted, he said.<\/p>\n<p>There are currently 21 commercial banks and the All-Armenian Bank operating in the country. Aggregate assets of these banks amounted to 2,916.7 billion drams in the first half of the year (0.74% decrease from the beginning of the year); liabilities were 2,429.6 billion drams (1.61% reduction), capital was 487.1 billion drams (3.85% increase).<\/p>\n<p>Ameriabank is a universal bank that provides investment, corporate and retail banking services in the form of a comprehensive package of banking solutions. It is the first investment bank in Armenia that has been providing a wide range of innovative banking services since 2007. ($1 \u2013 411.94 drams). \u20130-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consolidation of Armenia\u2019s banks is unavoidable, member of Ameriabank CJSC Managerial Board Ruben Vardanyan told reporters in Yerevan on Thursday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":159655,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[9214,9216],"tags":[13750,13751,12522],"class_list":{"0":"post-80280","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-armenian-bank","10":"tag-consolidation","11":"tag-vardanyan"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80280","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=80280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}