Ameriabank among International Online Competition finalistsOctober 12, 2017 - 16:26 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Ameriabank’s team has reached the final stage of the 8th International Online Virtual Banking Competition. The final round will be held on November 23 in the Hague, where the Armenian bank will be competing with 3 other finalists: Bancop SA (Paraguay), Supervielle (Argentina) and Ficohsa (Honduras). Overall, 30 banks from Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe and Central Asia were participating in the competition. The competition is related to effective assets, liabilities and risk management issues in banks. The aim of the competition is to promote knowledge in finance and banking, upgrade professional skills, share alternative and innovative knowledge and international experience, strengthen and develop risk management practices in financial institutions. The competition was organized by SimArch Group as part of a finance and banking learning platform and financed by the Netherlands’ FMO, DEG (member of KfW Group) and French PROPARCO. SimArch presents new advanced learning solutions for professionals in financial and banking sectors since 1999, providing big education opportunities. The company’s learning programs have been successfully implemented by 170 entities in 45 countries, including major banks such as ABN AMRO, ING, FirstRand, Dexia and others. Top stories The number of state universities will be reduced from 23 to 8 by 2030, Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport Zhanna Andreasyan has said. From September 21 to November 11, a total of 2,820 Russians registered at a place of residence in Armenia, the police has said. The situation on the contact line between Karabakh and Azerbaijan was relatively stable overnight, the Defense Army says. Defense Minister Suren Papikyan has visited the southern Armenian province of Syunik, the Defense Ministry reported on March 18. Partner news | Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. Ucom launches network modernization efforts in few regions of Armenia In particular, on March 28, the legacy Mobile Switching Subsystem will be replaced with a new one. |