YEREVAN, September 15. /ARKA/. At its meeting on Tuesday, the Board of the Central Bank of Armenia decided to raise the monetary policy rate by 0.25 percentage points to 6.75%.
According to the regulator’s press service, the Board of the Central Bank simultaneously set the Lombard repo rate provided by the Central Bank at 8.25%, and the rate on funds attracted by the Central Bank from banks at 5.25%.
The Board of the Central Bank of Armenia has been consistently reducing the interest rate since June 2023, gradually bringing it from 10.75% to 6.5% in December 2025. Since then, the rate has remained at 6.5%. Thus, the decision taken on September 15 marks the first interest rate increase in over three years.
