IBA Placing Shares will take 6 months
Shares of the largest bank in Azerbaijan to raise at least 200 million manat will begin on December 12th and will take at least four months. These conditions provide a prospectus, which is promulgated online BSE.
Total six-month period provided for its shares. Existing shareholders of the bank (over 1800 individuals and legal entities) should use its pre-emptive right to purchase shares at four months.
According to the document , on the 1st of October this year, IBA has creditor debts in the form of deposit , loan , syndicated loan and a subordinated loan totaling 2 billion 854.5 million manat in U.S. dollars and euros. The financial report of the bank in the first six months indicated that the assets of IBA exceed 6.7 billion manat. With paid-in share capital of 340 million manat, equity capital is 486.2 million manat.
Currently, the number of IBA shares in circulation is 1 billion 416 million 666 thousand 675 with a par value of 0.26 manat each. During the issue of shares announced plans to place 769,230,775 shares.
Recall that on the results of 2012 IBA sent to increase the authorized capital retained earnings in the amount of AZN 28,333,300 and currently paid-up share capital is 368.3 million manat.
Control of the bank with equity participation of 50.2 % of the shares retains the Azerbaijani government represented by the Ministry of Finance. Apart from that nobody has more than 10 % of the shares. - 08D-
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