OREANDA-NEWS. On 27 June 2008 was announced, that JSC Akciju komercbanka Baltikums signed an agreement with JSC Latvijas Krajbanka on the sale of 93.46% of AAS Baltikums Dziviba stock.

The transaction will be completed when all the necessary permissions will be obtained from the supervisory institutions and all the relevant procedures carried out.

The amount of the transactions is 2.5 mln LVL.

The transaction is motivated by the fact the Bank is closely following its chosen strategy that does not foresee involvement in retail banking operations.

The Bank specializes in two clearly defined areas of the banking sector – trade and shipping finance as well as in financial market services and wealth management. In addition to the above mentioned areas of operations, other important fields of operations for the Bank are investment of the Bank's funds in financial markets and rendering of key banking services such as payments to corporate customers.