Wednesday, August 9 2017 17:55

ArmInfo. Armenian Bank Anelik states that the Central Bank's opinion on August 9 this year. Licenses for the conduct of banking operations with the Russian bank CB Anelik RU is not related to the activities of the Armenian Anelik  Bank and does not affect its functioning.  As explained by ArmInfo in  the press service of Anelik Bank, ZAO "Anelik Bank" is working as  usual.

According to the source, the Armenian CJSC "Anelik Bank" and the  Russian CB "Anelik RU" are different legal entities with different  composition of shareholders.

is not a subsidiary bank of the Armenian bank  Anelik Bank for more than 5 years, retaining only a part of its  historical name. In addition,  Anelik Bank is not related to the  Anelik money transfer system, which was owned and operated by CB  Anelik, according to the Bank's official statement.

To remind, Anelik Bank, operating on the market since October 1996,  was the first among the Armenian banks to establish the international  money transfer system "Anelik" with the same name, and had an  affiliated bank "Anelik RU" in Moscow. Later, with the shareholders  of Anelik Bank, it is about entering the capital of the Lebanese bank  CreditBank SAL in 2009, Moscow LLC Anelik RU was deported from the  Armenian CJSC Anelik Bank in December, parallel to what the owners of  the payment system Anelik >.  The settlement center of the payment  system was , which the Bank of Russia was not  considered a significant credit institution in the payment services  market. Alienation of the Moscow LLC Anelik RU was preceded by the  entry into the capital of Anelik Bank in February 2009 by the  Lebanese CreditBank S.A.L. (Initially 51%) with the subsequent  increase in 2013 of its share from 89.95% to 100%. Later, in  September 2016, with the aim of capitalizing Anelik Bank to a minimum  of 30 billion drams required from 2017, an additional closed issue of  40,5111 shares was purchased by Vartan Dilanyan through the Cypriot  company FISTOCO LTD. Since that moment, the share holding in the  Bank's capital Anelik was as follows: FISTOCO LTD - 59.68%, while the  share of the former shareholder of the Lebanese bank CreditBank S.A.L  decreased from 100% to 40.32%. Indirect majority shareholders of  Anelik Bank are physical persons: Tarek J. Khalefe (CreditBank S.A.L)  and Vartan Dilanyan (FISTOCO LTD). Shareholders jointly formed the  new Anelik Bank Council, which includes professionals of the banking  market with many years of experience, and Vartan Dilanyan (owner of a  large international consulting company Accenture PLC), who has 24  years of experience in the banking system of the Russian Federation  and CIS countries, became chairman of the Board.

To note, now the Armenian Anelik Bank is included in the TOP-5 by the  main indicators: net profit, assets, credit investments, securities  portfolio, liabilities to clients borrowed from international  structures.