{"id":83447,"date":"2015-01-14T10:43:45","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T10:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2015\/01\/14\/242194\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T13:15:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:15:47","slug":"number-of-banks-may-reduce-to-14-in-armenia-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2015\/01\/14\/83447\/","title":{"rendered":"Number of banks may reduce to 14 in Armenia \u2013 newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YEREVAN, January 14. \/ARKA\/.<\/strong> The banks operating in Armenia today may amalgamate soon, bringing the total number from 21 down to 14, Haykakan Zhamanak (Armenian Time) newspaper says.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the press secretary of the Central Bank of Armenia Mery Shahinian has not refuted this information, the newspaper says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTime will show\u201d, she said when asked if only fourteen will remain out of the current 21 banks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will be increasing the authorized stock aiming at stabilization in banks\u201d, she said.<\/p>\n<p>On December 30, 2014, the central bank board meeting decided to increase the minimum authorized stock requirements for the banks from 5 to 30 billion drams, which is expected to promote consolidation.<\/p>\n<p>Ameriabank and Inecobank are said to consolidate, according to the newspaper. \u20130&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The banks operating in Armenia today may amalgamate soon, bringing the total number from 21 down to 14, Haykakan Zhamanak (Armenian Time) newspaper says<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":157200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[9214,9216],"tags":[15837,12163],"class_list":{"0":"post-83447","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-armenia-2","10":"tag-banks"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83447","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=83447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}