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    ITB ARMENIA OFFERS NEW "MULTICURRENCY" DEPOSIT

    ARKA News Agency, Armenia
    Oct 30 2006

    YEREVAN, October 30. /ARKA/. The International Trade Bank (ITB)
    offers its clients new "Multicurrency" deposit from October 1, 2006,
    the bank's press service reported that this type of deposits will allow
    clients to make deposits in one or three currencies at the same time:
    AMD, USD and EUR.

    "The advantage of the multicurrency deposit consists in the fact
    that over the entire period of validity of the contract, a client
    has an opportunity to convert the funds on the deposit account from
    one currency into another, and this decreases the risk connected
    with exchange rate fluctuation," Executive Director of the bank
    Ara Kitbalyan.

    At the same time, there are other, very essential advantages besides
    this one. Firstly, this is the opportunity of saving deposit funds,
    secondly, the opportunity of partial withdrawal, and thirdly, even
    the opportunity to fully withdraw the funds by canceling the contract,
    without losing added interest.

    "The bank provides three types of multicurrency deposits - ordinary,
    accumulation and accumulation deposits with the right of partial
    return.

    In all the three cases, 90 days later, after placing money on the
    deposit account, a client can withdraw all the money with added
    interests and cancel the contract.

    The minimal amount of deposit totals AMD 200,000 or USD/EUR 500 for
    the ordinary and accumulation deposit, and AMD 400 AMD or USD/EUR
    1000 for the accumulation deposit with the right of partial return.

    International Trade Bank - ITB(Armenia) was founded on the basis of
    "Bank-Menatep-Armenia" in 1992 as the Yerevan branch of the Russian
    bank Menatep. In April 2000, the bank's share were purchased by
    foreign companies, later joined in the Makarios (MG) Holdings GMBH,
    and bank itself was renamed to ITB - International Trade Bank. In 2005,
    the bank's 99.91% shares were purchased by Makarios (MG) Holdings GMBH.

    ITB's total assets made up AMD 5.1bln as of 30 June, 2006, the credit
    portfolio totaled AMD 2.98bln. The bank currently operates four
    branches The Makarious Group Holdings GMBH joins about 60 companies
    that are registered in Austria, Great Britain, Ireland, Switzerland,
    Cyprus, and in a number of CIS countries. The group consists of banks,
    leasing, investment and consulting organizations, the activity of
    which is aim at implementing large-scale investment programs in the
    spheres of construction, metal mining, timber, woodworking and textile
    industries, and also trade and high technologies.

    The economic interests of the Makarios group are not limited in Armenia
    only by the banking sphere. The group has made large investments for
    $22.5mln in the program of construction of the Northern Avenue of
    Yerevan.
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