WB: Central Bank of Armenia expects refinancing rate to be cut to 6.25% this year

YEREVAN, September 30. /ARКА/. The board of the Central Bank of Armenia kept the policy rate unchanged at 6.75 percent and announced that it expected to gradually lower the refinancing rate to approximately 6.25 percent over the next 12 months. This is stated in the World Bank’s “Armenia Monthly Economic Update – September 2025.”

The Central Bank of Armenia continuously lowered the refinancing rate from June 2023 to February 2025, gradually reducing it over this period from 10.75% to 6.75%. The regulator then maintained the rate unchanged until its latest decision on September 16, 2025.-0-

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