The development of digital financial services today involves not only improving existing banking products but also creating specialized platforms that make financial services more efficient and accessible.
Armenian Minister of Economy Gevorg Papoyan and a delegation from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)—led by Elisabetta Falcetti, Managing Director for Turkey and the Caucasus—agreed to advance their cooperation agenda during a meeting on Thursday.
As part of the “Side by Side” initiative, IDBank has launched a new partnership, this time supporting families forcibly displaced from Artsakh who are currently living in the Sevan community.
YEREVAN, August 10. /ARKA/. As of June 30, 2026, the total loan investment and leasing portfolio of Armenian credit institutions reached 681.8 billion drams, reflecting a 1.64% increase from the previous quarter and a 3.23% rise since the start of the year.
The international rating agency Moody's Ratings has revised the outlook on Armenia's sovereign rating from stable to positive, affirming its long-term issuer ratings in both local and foreign currencies at Ba3.
Armenia’s financial agenda this week centered on developing regulatory cooperation, digitizing currency transactions, and expanding capital market instruments.
During a meeting with a delegation led by Alexander Tieman, Head of the IMF Mission to Armenia, Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigoryan discussed issues raised within the framework of the second review of the Stand-By Arrangement (SBA) supported by the IMF.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has kept its inflation forecast for Armenia unchanged at 4.2% for 2026 and 3.5% for 2027, noting that inflation trends over the first seven months were generally in line with expectations.
Armenian Deputy Prime Minister Tigran Khachatryan and Lyaziza Sabyrova, Country Director for Armenia at the Asian Development Bank (ADB), discussed new areas of cooperation and infrastructure projects.
Amid the S&P 500's worst quarter since 2022, rising global anxiety, and persistent geopolitical uncertainty, investors are increasingly asking whether this is a temporary market reaction or a deeper shift in investment logic.
Capital market development in Armenia is increasingly dependent not only on the growth in the number of issues and the expansion of instruments, but also on the quality of the environment in which investors make decisions.
The digital infrastructure of the Armenian capital market has made significant progress in recent years, but the market still lacks a more robust regulatory and technological framework for the full development of new financial instruments.
The capital market of Armenia is undergoing a significant transformation: there is an increasing interest in bonds, foreign investors are becoming more engaged, and there is a rising demand for new financial instruments, ranging from IPOs to digital assets
The development of digital financial services today involves not only improving existing banking products but also creating specialized platforms that make financial services more efficient and accessible.
Armenian Minister of Economy Gevorg Papoyan and a delegation from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)—led by Elisabetta Falcetti, Managing Director for Turkey and the Caucasus—agreed to advance their cooperation agenda during a meeting on Thursday.
As part of the “Side by Side” initiative, IDBank has launched a new partnership, this time supporting families forcibly displaced from Artsakh who are currently living in the Sevan community.
YEREVAN, August 10. /ARKA/. As of June 30, 2026, the total loan investment and leasing portfolio of Armenian credit institutions reached 681.8 billion drams, reflecting a 1.64% increase from the previous quarter and a 3.23% rise since the start of the year.
The international rating agency Moody's Ratings has revised the outlook on Armenia's sovereign rating from stable to positive, affirming its long-term issuer ratings in both local and foreign currencies at Ba3.
Armenia’s financial agenda this week centered on developing regulatory cooperation, digitizing currency transactions, and expanding capital market instruments.
During a meeting with a delegation led by Alexander Tieman, Head of the IMF Mission to Armenia, Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigoryan discussed issues raised within the framework of the second review of the Stand-By Arrangement (SBA) supported by the IMF.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has kept its inflation forecast for Armenia unchanged at 4.2% for 2026 and 3.5% for 2027, noting that inflation trends over the first seven months were generally in line with expectations.
Armenian Deputy Prime Minister Tigran Khachatryan and Lyaziza Sabyrova, Country Director for Armenia at the Asian Development Bank (ADB), discussed new areas of cooperation and infrastructure projects.
Amid the S&P 500's worst quarter since 2022, rising global anxiety, and persistent geopolitical uncertainty, investors are increasingly asking whether this is a temporary market reaction or a deeper shift in investment logic.
Capital market development in Armenia is increasingly dependent not only on the growth in the number of issues and the expansion of instruments, but also on the quality of the environment in which investors make decisions.
The digital infrastructure of the Armenian capital market has made significant progress in recent years, but the market still lacks a more robust regulatory and technological framework for the full development of new financial instruments.
The capital market of Armenia is undergoing a significant transformation: there is an increasing interest in bonds, foreign investors are becoming more engaged, and there is a rising demand for new financial instruments, ranging from IPOs to digital assets
VTB Bank (Armenia) has opened today its 69th branch in Armenia. The branch, called Tigran Metz is located within the Yerevan railway station at 86, Tigran Mets Avenue
Thanks to the assistance of the Stepan Gishyan charity foundation run by the ACBA-CREDIT AGRICOLE BANK, a wool processing workshop operating in the Shinuair community in the southern province of Syunik
The Chairman of the Central Bank of Armenia Artur Javadyan and the President of the Black Sea Trade and Development Bank (BSTDB) Dmitry Pankin had a meeting today in Yerevan to discuss the status of a set of BSTDB-financed projects in Armenia
Six Armenia-based insurance companies collected a total of 29.9 billion drams in the first 9 months of 2019 as premiums for mandatory insurance of vehicles and paid 16.7 billion drams in damage compensation claims
The share of calculations in national currencies in deals among the Eurasian Economic Union member countries reached 70% in the first half of this year, vestifinance.ru reports
Unibank has donated advanced computer classrooms to schools in the border villages of Khachik and Shaghat, the press office of the bank reported on Monday
Six insurance companies operating in Armenia earned a total of 387.5 million drams in net profit in the first nine months of this year, down from 1.711 billion drams they had earned a year earlier
Thanks to the assistance of ACBA-CREDIT AGRICOLE BANK two modern computer classrooms have opened in the #4 school in the town of Gyumri, the administrative capital of the northwestern Armenian province of Shirak and in the high school of the Maisyan community
Armenia’s acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan asked today the Ministry of Defense and the Central Bank to look into the possibility of providing low-interest rate mortgage loans to contract servicemen
In an exclusive interview with ARKA news agency, Dmitry Pankin, President of the Black Sea Trade and Development Bank (BSTDB), said Armenia’s banking sector is in good condition, and in many respects it should be credited to the Central Bank of the country
