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    INTERNATIONAL BANKING CONFERENCE IN YEREVAN TO DEAL WITH TRADE FINANCING
    by Tigran Liloyan

    ITAR-TASS News Agency
    March 27, 2006 Monday 11:12 PM EST

    Armenia's trade financing matters of current importance are to
    be discussed at an international banking conference opening here
    on Tuesday.

    The conference, which has been organised by the European Bank
    for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the Armeconombank,
    the republic's leading commercial bank, one quarter of the assets
    of which belongs to the EBRD, is held within the framework of the
    EBRD-devised trade assistance programme for the banks of Central and
    Eastern Europe and CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) countries.

    The Programme is aimed at stepping up intra-regional and international
    trade through encouragement of the activities of West European banks.

    The EBRD, in particulr, assumes political and payment risks in favour
    of Armenian companies that transact export-import operations.

    The Conference is to be addressed by Central Bank executives and
    officials of the Armenian government and various international
    financial organisations.

    The delegates of the banks of Russia, Austria, Belarus, Britain,
    Germany, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, the Netherlands, the United
    Arab Emirates, Turkey, and Ukraine are to share their experience. The
    guests are to get acquainted with the peculiarities of banking, tax
    and customs legislation of the republic and its practical applications.

    The forum has already attracted the attention of numerous companies
    which operate in Armenia and are interested in the crediting of
    their commercial activities. They operate in most diverse sectors of
    the the economy ranging from engineering and communications to the
    production of canned food and toys. A practical training seminar is
    to be conducted for them with the participation of the experts of
    the EBRD and other organisations.

    The Armeconombank, which is the legal successor to the Armenian
    republican bank of the Zhilsotsbank of the USSR (housing and social
    development bank), was the republic's first one to get reorganised
    from the state-run bank into a joint-stock one. At present, it has
    39,000 clients who are catered for in 40 branches of the bank.

    On the strength of last year's results, Armenia's Central Bank
    and the Ministry of Finance referred to the Armeconombank as the
    republican government's best agent in the management of the national
    domestic debt.
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