"Global Finance" recognizes ARARATBANK as the best bank of Armenia  for trade financing for the third year in a row

ArmInfo.The international authoritative publication Global Finance recognizes ARARATBANK as the best bank in Armenia for trade financing for the third consecutive year. The press service of the Bank told ArmInfo that the award was  given to ARARATBANK in view of such criteria as innovative technologies introduced in the bank, the volumes, accuracy and speed of the operations performed, geographical coverage of transactions and high level of customer service.

The names of the winning banks on a global scale in different  nominations "Global Finance" was announced on January 17 in London at  the annual meeting of the Banking Association of Finance and Trade  (BAFT). Editors and analysts of Global Finance, businessmen and  independent experts carried out the selection of winners from 94  countries.

It is worth mentioning that for the last seven years ARARATBANK has  been repeatedly awarded the title of "Best Bank of Armenia for Trade  Finance" by two international authoritative financial institutions -  the German Commerzbank AG and the European Bank for Reconstruction  and Development (EBRD).

The monthly edition of "Global Finance" has been published since  1987. The magazine has over 50,000 subscribers in 180 countries. The  target audience of the publication are the leaders and  representatives of the world's largest private and public financial  structures. The experts of the publication analyze the important  financial indicators of more than 192 countries.

According to the Express-Ranking of Armenian Banks, prepared by IC  ArmInfo, ARARATBANK increased its credit portfolio for the year of  2017 by 13.6% to 119.2 billion drams or $ 246.2 million (56.1% of the  bank's assets). As a result, the assets of ARARATBANK reached 212.6  billion AMD or $ 439.2 million. The total liabilities of the bank  amounted to 177.3 billion AMD or $ 366.3 million as of the end of  2017, in the structure of which 49.2% accounted for term deposits and  demand deposits and 44.8% for attracted funds from international  financial organizations (with an annual growth of 44.4%). The bank  raised its total capital by 6.5% in 2017 to 35.3 billion AMD ($ 72.9  million) due to the increase in accumulated profit by 13.8% to 14.5  billion AMD. 2017, ARARATBANK completed with a net profit of 2.1  billion AMD ($ 4.3 million), ensuring the growth of this indicator by  89.1%.

"ARARATBANK" OJSC has been operating since November 2005. The  majority shareholders of ARARATBANK on October 1, 2017 one of the  largest oil traders in Armenia - Flush company - 72.73%, Barsegh  Beglaryan (famous entrepreneur, the head of Flash) - 18.33% and Rural  Impulse Fund II (part of the Belgian Incofin Investment Management -  Incofin IM) - 8.58%.