Armenian government dreams of seeing stock market well developed – head of Freedom Holding

YEREVAN, March 5. /ARKA/. The Armenian government dreams of seeing the country’s stock market  well developed, said founder and head of Freedom Holding Corp. Timur Turlov.

“There is a political order for this. This is great, it helps,” he said today when speaking at the first investment and financial forum “Armenian Capital Markets: Future Outlook” that kicked off in Yerevan.

According to Turlov, the support of the Central Bank is very important in this issue.

“The proactive Central Bank of Armenia is not indifferent to its capital market, trying to support it somehow – we see it in different things, including refinancing programs,” he stressed. -0

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