YEREVAN, December 9. / ARKA /. The Russian-owned Areximbank - Gazprombank Group said today it expects private money transfers going through its network to increase 40% from the same time span in 2012.

The bank said in the third quarter of this year some 137.8 billion drams in private money transfers were remitted through its network, of them over 131 billion drams were sent to Armenia.

The amount of money transfers made by various international payment systems without account opening grew to over 28 billion drams as of December 1, 2013.  Of that amount 25.6 billion were remitted to Armenia.

Areximbank-Gazprombank Group offers money transfer via several systems like MONEYGRAM, ANELIK, Express Mail, UNISTREAM, AVERS, INTELEXPRESS, COINSTAR MONEY TRANSFER, RIA MONEY TRANSFER and some other systems.

Areximbank-Gazprombank Group is owned fully by Russian Gazprombank. It runs 16 branches in Armenia.  ($1- 406.94 drams) -0-