ARKA News Agency
Feb 1 2005
The leaders of the press-rating of ARKA for 2004 are Armeconombank,
Conversebank, Armsavingsbank, Ardshininvestbank, Anelik Bank
15TH conference of regional group of Basel committee on banking
monitoring to take place on Feb 2-4
1164 traffic accidents registered in Armenia in 2004
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THE LEADERS OF THE PRESS-RATING OF ARKA FOR 2004 ARE ARMECONOMBANK,
CONVERSEBANK, ARMSAVINGSBANK, ARDSHININVESTBANK, ANELIK BANK
YEREVAN, February 2. /ARKA/. ARKA published the press-rating of the
banks of Armenia for 2004. The leaders of the press-rating are 1.
Armeconombank, 2. Conversebank 3. Armsavingsbank 4. Ardshininvestbank
5. Anelik Bank. According to the analysis of the press signals,
during the reporting year less bank information was received, as a
result of which the quantity of press signals reduced by 32,9%
compared to 2003. At that, the share of negative press signals
accounted for 2,1% versus 6,3% in 2003.
In 2004, the share of information for `Banking Activities in Figures’
increased by 1,8 % up to 36,4%. By the volume of information entries
this section is followed by `General on Banks’, the information
weight share of which reduced by 1% to 31,3 %. Notwithstanding the
decrease of the information entries in the section `Bank Development
Policy’, it accounts for 23,1% in the structure of total information,
which is by only 0,2% less than in 2003. With regard to the rest of
the sections, the share of the section `Bank’s Economic Forecasts and
Opinions’ increased by 1,2% making 6%, and the information weight
share of the section `Clients and Service’ reduced by 2% to 3,2%.
During the reporting period, Armeconombank was the leader for 4 out
of 5 sections: `General on Banks’, `Bank Development Policy’,
`Clients and Service’ and `Banking Activities in Figures’. Anelik
Bank was active for the section `Bank’s Economic Forecasts and
Opinions’.
To note, the leaders of the press-rating for 2003 were: 1.
Conversebank 2. Armeconombank 3. Armsavingsbank 4. ACBA 5. Anelik
Bank and 6. HSBC Bank Armenia.
ARKA’s press- rating is based not on financial-economic indicators
but on facts on banking activity, information about which is received
through mass media. As a result, the higher is the level of the
awareness of a bank’s activity, the more effective is its
communications policy. When making up the press -rating, no
information for advertisement purposes was considered or analyzed.
For more detailed information see Banking Information Bulletin #01
(24) for 2004. A.H. -0–
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15TH CONFERENCE OF REGIONAL GROUP OF BASEL COMMITTEE ON BANKING
MONITORING TO TAKE PLACE ON FEB 2-4
YEREVAN, February 1. /ARKA/. 15th conference of regional group of
Basel committee on banking monitoring of South Caucasus, Central Asia
and Russian Federation will take place on Feb 2-4, CBA press service
told ARKA. The parties will discuss issues of prevention of money
laundry by banking system, peculiarities of monitoring over
non-banking financial institutions and the issue of use of basic
principles of Basel committee on effective banking monitoring. L.D.
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1164 TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS REGISTERED IN ARMENIA IN 2004
YEREVAN, February 1. /ARKA/. 1164 traffic accidents were registered
in Armenia in 2004(66 – in December), which by 13,6% exceeds the
indicator of the previous year. According to the RA National
Statistics Service, 259 people were killed (27 – in December), which
is by 2,8% more than in 2003, 1492 were injured (60 -in December),
which is by 15,3% more than in January-December of 2003. As a result
of 135 undiscovered traffic accidents, 32 people were killed and 110
were injured as of January 1, 2005. As a result of 74 accidents,
which took place because of the drunk drivers, 28 people were killed
and 114 were injured.
According to statistical data, 56,7% of the overall quantity of
traffic accidents in 2004 fell to urban and rural areas entailing 93
killed and 751 injured, 42,1% accidents took place outside of rural
and urban settlements entailing death of 162 and 726 were injured.
L.V.–0–
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