OREANDA-NEWS. April 29, 2014. At the Bank Head Office, located in Chisinau was held the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of Joint Stock Commercial Bank “EXIMBANK– Gruppo Veneto Banca”.

During the meeting it was mentioned that according to the 2013 annual financial results the Bank assets increased constantly up to 4.6 billion lei (the equivalent of 254.3 million lei), in comparison with 4.1 billion lei (the equivalent of 257.1 million lei) at the end of the 2012 year.

The mother- bank’s investments in the paid- up capital made in the form of additional issue of shares in the 2013 in the amount of 365 million lei as well as in previous years, allowed the Bank to maintain the incontestable top position of this item. During the year 2013 the Bank launched new credit products „AGRARIO”, which permitted to provide optimum crediting solutions. For deposit clients were implemented 2 new deposit products - „Progresiv” and „Raccolto” which extended the range of deposit products of the Bank. Due to applied efforts the Bank reached 7.2% of granted loans and 3.6% of attracted deposits in terms of the market share of the local banking system. Regarding the banking card business, the Bank has obtained the license for issuing the MasterCard with the chip, which representes a high technology in the domain of banking card.

The bank helds the top banking position of the Republic of Moldova in all banking cards activities, being one of the 4 Bank which helds the principle license of both international payment systems MasterCard and VISA.

Also, it was mentioned the recent decision dated February 21, 2014 to increase with 250 million lei (the equivalent of about 13.5 million eur) the paid- up of the Bank. As the result, the paid up capital now is 1.25 billion lei.

The annual General Meeting of Shareholders approved the Reports of the Board of Directors, of the Executive Committee, of the Censors Committee for 2013; the indicators and profit distribution for 2014, elected the new member of the Board of Directors and the compensation to the members of the Board of Directors and the compensation to the members of the Board of Directors; the Working Plan of the Censors Committee for 2014; modifications to the structure and to the Articles of Association; approved the modifications and insertion to the Corporate Governance Code, Rules of the Board of Directors and of the Censors Committee.