The Central Bank of Armenia (CBA), with technical assistance from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and financial support from the Japanese government, has introduced master documentation for derivatives and repurchase transactions that is governed by Armenian law.
High profitability was recorded in the banking system of Armenia at the end of 2024, which was facilitated by growth in net interest income and low level of credit losses, said Martin Galstyan, Chairman of the Central Bank of the Republic, presenting the financial stability report for 2024.
The assets of the banking system continue to make up the overwhelming majority of the financial system's assets - about 83%, or about 11 trillion drams, said the head of the Central Bank of the republic Martin Galstyan, presenting a report on financial stability for the past year.
Students of the Mastara village school in Aragatsotn region now have the opportunity to study French in a fully equipped classroom equipped with all the multimedia capabilities, the press service of Acba Bank reports.
For the fifth time, with the support of Acba Bank, Yerevan is hosting the most anticipated event of the first week of June — the Yerevan Wine Days festival, which tells the world about the unique and thousand-year-old traditions of Armenian winemaking, the bank’s press service reports.
In 2019, Armenia-based commercial banks earned a total of 78.8 billion drams in net profit, up from 56.4 billion drams they had earned in 2018, according to ARKA news agency's ranking of the most profitable commercial banks in the fourth quarter of 2019
In 2025, the income tax refund will amount to 100 billion drams - approximately 95 billion drams, said Chairman of the State Revenue Committee of Armenia Eduard Hakobyan.
In the consumer market of Armenia, 12-month inflation in May of this year amounted to 4.3%, according to the report of the National Statistical Committee (NSC) of Armenia.
Armenia's investment market is experiencing a period of active development: the number of issues is growing, digital technologies simplify access to financial instruments.
Armenia's investment climate is undergoing significant changes, and the financial market is becoming more active. Armen Hovhannisyan, Director of investment banking at Dimension Investments, speaks in an exclusive interview with ARKA news agency about the barriers to development, tools for accelerating growth, as well as the prospects of venture capital.
On August 23, international credit rating agency S&P Global Ratings reaffirmed Armenia's long-term and short-term sovereign credit ratings in both foreign and local currency at "BB-/B." The agency also maintained its "stable" outlook for the country.
The Central Bank of Armenia (CBA), with technical assistance from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and financial support from the Japanese government, has introduced master documentation for derivatives and repurchase transactions that is governed by Armenian law.
High profitability was recorded in the banking system of Armenia at the end of 2024, which was facilitated by growth in net interest income and low level of credit losses, said Martin Galstyan, Chairman of the Central Bank of the Republic, presenting the financial stability report for 2024.
The assets of the banking system continue to make up the overwhelming majority of the financial system's assets - about 83%, or about 11 trillion drams, said the head of the Central Bank of the republic Martin Galstyan, presenting a report on financial stability for the past year.
Students of the Mastara village school in Aragatsotn region now have the opportunity to study French in a fully equipped classroom equipped with all the multimedia capabilities, the press service of Acba Bank reports.
For the fifth time, with the support of Acba Bank, Yerevan is hosting the most anticipated event of the first week of June — the Yerevan Wine Days festival, which tells the world about the unique and thousand-year-old traditions of Armenian winemaking, the bank’s press service reports.
In 2019, Armenia-based commercial banks earned a total of 78.8 billion drams in net profit, up from 56.4 billion drams they had earned in 2018, according to ARKA news agency's ranking of the most profitable commercial banks in the fourth quarter of 2019
In 2025, the income tax refund will amount to 100 billion drams - approximately 95 billion drams, said Chairman of the State Revenue Committee of Armenia Eduard Hakobyan.
In the consumer market of Armenia, 12-month inflation in May of this year amounted to 4.3%, according to the report of the National Statistical Committee (NSC) of Armenia.
Armenia's investment market is experiencing a period of active development: the number of issues is growing, digital technologies simplify access to financial instruments.
Armenia's investment climate is undergoing significant changes, and the financial market is becoming more active. Armen Hovhannisyan, Director of investment banking at Dimension Investments, speaks in an exclusive interview with ARKA news agency about the barriers to development, tools for accelerating growth, as well as the prospects of venture capital.
On August 23, international credit rating agency S&P Global Ratings reaffirmed Armenia's long-term and short-term sovereign credit ratings in both foreign and local currency at "BB-/B." The agency also maintained its "stable" outlook for the country.
The Polish side hopes that the Armenian side will fulfill its obligations to implement a program designed to develop the Armenian Securities Exchange (AMX), Polish Deputy Minister of Development and Technologies Grzegorz Piechowiak said Thursday at a meeting of the Armenian-Polish Intergovernmental Commission on Economic Cooperation held in Yerevan
Armenia-based commercial banks have set a new record in deposits volume, which have surged to over AMD 5.5 trillion, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at a governmental session on Thursday
Moody’s upgraded Converse bank’s BCA to b1 from b2 and affirmed the bank’s long-term deposit ratings at B1. The rating agency also upgraded the outlook on the B1 long-term deposit ratings to stable
Armenia’s Central Bank is not planning to make changes to or revise its current regulatory framework designed for local commercial banks, the regulator’s press service said in response to ARKA News Agency's inquiry about whether it was planning to toughen prudential requirements for banks, particularly, the liquidity ratio because of the large inflow of non-resident funds
The Armenian parliament approved on Monday an agreement with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD).whereby the latter will provide Armenia a EUR 92.3mln loan
Moody's Investors Service has affirmed the Government of Armenia's Ba3 local and foreign currency long-term issuer ratings, as well as the foreign currency senior unsecured ratings. Concurrently, Moody's has changed the outlook to stable from negative
Armenian investment company Armbrok earned 4.5 billion drams (about $11.6 mln) in net profit in the first quarter of this year, according to its statements. Net commission income totaled 2.9 billion drams (about $ 7.5 million), compared to only 33 million drams (about $85,500) earned over the same period in 2022, reports forbes.ru
One of the goals of selling the majority stake of the Armenian Securities Exchange (AMX) was to attract non-residents, Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank of Armenia Armen Nurbekyan said
Armenia's Central Bank has put today into circulation three collector coins- “100th Anniversary of Foundation of Armenian Cinema”, “100th Anniversary of Hagop Hagopian’s Birth” and “Ararat-73 – 50th Anniversary of Golden Double” silver collector coins into circulation
VTB (Armenia) has moved its head office in Yerevan to a new building. The 5000 square meter premises accommodates 400 employees working in all spheres of the business
In an interview with ARKA news agency Secretary General of the Federation of Euro-Asian Stock Exchanges Konstantin Saroyan noted that the Armenian capital market is very developed in terms of technologies and procedures
Over 200 experts from 30 countries have gathered in Yerevan for the annual flagship conference of the Federation of Euro-Asian Stock Exchanges, ConFEAS-2023