{"id":83820,"date":"2015-01-23T16:39:32","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T16:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2015\/01\/23\/242252\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T13:15:58","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:15:58","slug":"vtb-bank-armenia-joins-best-money-transfer-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2015\/01\/23\/83820\/","title":{"rendered":"VTB Bank (Armenia) joins best money transfer system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YEREVAN, January 23. \/ ARKA \/.<\/strong> VTB Bank (Armenia) said today it has become the only bank in Armenia so far to have joined a new system of remittances called BEST.<\/p>\n<p>The bank said BEST has a wide network of service points (22,000 points) both in Russia and other CIS countries. Remittances are accepted in Russian rubles, US dollars and euros. The commission starts with 1%. Remittances become available to receivers within one minute.<\/p>\n<p>The maximum amount of a remittance is 590,000 rubles or the equivalent in US dollars or euros. Three money transfer transactions a day are allowed.<\/p>\n<p>The customers can also get money transfers without visiting the bank by using VTB Transfer service: they need to active this service on their VTB Bank (Armenia) card or purchase a special card VTB Transfer, call 87-87 , tell the code word and the amount will be transferred to their card in real time mode.<\/p>\n<p>VTB Bank (Armenia) is owned by Russian VTB Group. It runs 67 branches across Armenia.<\/p>\n<p>The bank\u2019s assets grew by 25.6% last year to 379.6 billion drams; its liabilities grew by 26.3 percent to 334.8 billion drams; the capital grew by 20 percent to 44.7 billion drams; its credit investments grew by 11.6 percent to 244.3 billion drams . In 2014 the bank earned 777.14 million drams in profit, down from a profit of 5.6 billion drams earned in 2013. ($ 1 &#8211; 471.02 drams). -0-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VTB Bank (Armenia) said today it has become the only bank in Armenia so far to have joined a new system of remittances called BEST<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":161190,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[9214,9216],"tags":[15837,12352,15826],"class_list":{"0":"post-83820","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-money","11":"tag-vtb-bank-armenia-2"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83820","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=83820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}