At its meeting on Tuesday, the Armenian National Assembly's Committee on Economic Affairs approved draft amendments to the RA Tax Code and the Law "On State Duty," which provide for changes in taxation of the banking sector.
Summer is already in the air across Yerevan. People are choosing to walk more, work from open-air cafés, meet friends outdoors, or simply pause for a few minutes to enjoy their favorite iced latte.
VTB (Armenia) has updated the terms of its consumer loans secured by real estate, making the product more accessible and flexible for retail clients. Under the updated offer, clients can apply for a loan of up to 30 million drams, using residential or commercial real estate as collateral within the country.
In March, commercial bank deposits increased by 2.2% (MoM), while lending grew by 1.6% (MoM), according to the World Bank's "Armenia Monthly Economic Update – May 2026."
As of March 31, 2026, the total loan portfolio of Armenian banks stood at AMD 8.01 trillion, marking a 22.63% rise compared to March 31, 2025, and a 4.05% increase from December 31, 2025.
Net non-commercial remittances in Armenia increased by 11.7% year-on-year in March, following a 5.2% year-on-year increase in February, according to the World Bank's "Armenia Monthly Economic Update – May 2026."
Inflation in Armenia continued to rise in April amid tensions due to the Middle East conflict and in supply chains, according to the World Bank's "Armenia Monthly Economic Update – May 2026."
From January to April 2026, the Yerevan budget actually received 31.6 billion drams of its planned 28.5 billion drams in revenues, according to David Hakobyan, Acting Head of the Revenue Accounting and Collection Department at the Yerevan City Hall.
Armenia's total public debt as of March 31, 2026, amounted to $14,077.138 million, a decrease of $57.761 million compared to February 28, 2026. This is according to a report by the National Statistical Committee of Armenia.
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
At its meeting on Tuesday, the Armenian National Assembly's Committee on Economic Affairs approved draft amendments to the RA Tax Code and the Law "On State Duty," which provide for changes in taxation of the banking sector.
Summer is already in the air across Yerevan. People are choosing to walk more, work from open-air cafés, meet friends outdoors, or simply pause for a few minutes to enjoy their favorite iced latte.
VTB (Armenia) has updated the terms of its consumer loans secured by real estate, making the product more accessible and flexible for retail clients. Under the updated offer, clients can apply for a loan of up to 30 million drams, using residential or commercial real estate as collateral within the country.
In March, commercial bank deposits increased by 2.2% (MoM), while lending grew by 1.6% (MoM), according to the World Bank's "Armenia Monthly Economic Update – May 2026."
As of March 31, 2026, the total loan portfolio of Armenian banks stood at AMD 8.01 trillion, marking a 22.63% rise compared to March 31, 2025, and a 4.05% increase from December 31, 2025.
Net non-commercial remittances in Armenia increased by 11.7% year-on-year in March, following a 5.2% year-on-year increase in February, according to the World Bank's "Armenia Monthly Economic Update – May 2026."
Inflation in Armenia continued to rise in April amid tensions due to the Middle East conflict and in supply chains, according to the World Bank's "Armenia Monthly Economic Update – May 2026."
From January to April 2026, the Yerevan budget actually received 31.6 billion drams of its planned 28.5 billion drams in revenues, according to David Hakobyan, Acting Head of the Revenue Accounting and Collection Department at the Yerevan City Hall.
Armenia's total public debt as of March 31, 2026, amounted to $14,077.138 million, a decrease of $57.761 million compared to February 28, 2026. This is according to a report by the National Statistical Committee of Armenia.
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
Armenia's banking sector keeps on progressing, taking over new niches. In an exclusive interview with ARKA news agency, Artavazd Sargsyan, the Chairman of the Executive Board of ARMBUSINESSBANK, shares his vision of Armenia's banking sector development, the current trends in the financial market and the new services the bank is planning to unveil in 2020
Starting from December 19, 2017 USD denominated nominal coupon bonds issued by “ARMBUSINESSBANK” CJSC will be listed on NASDAQ OMX Armenia and included in the bonds' secondary (Bbond) list, the stock exchange said
Starting from February 17, 2017 nominal coupon bonds issued by “ARMBUSINESSBANK” CJSC will be admitted to trading on NASDAQ OMX Armenia and included in the bonds free market (C)
Starting from February 10, 2017 nominal coupon bonds issued by “ARMBUSINESSBANK” CJSC will be listed on NASDAQ OMX Armenia and included in the bonds' secondary Bbond list
Armbusinessbank has filled its authorized capital with AMD 8,467,060,000 thanks to shareholder Vitaly Grigoryan, according to the report posted at the bank’s website
Armenian Armbusinessbank Board of Directors has decided to annul all credit obligations of servicemen who were killed in the latest upsurge of violence in Nagorno-Karabakh provoked by Azerbaijan, and also the obligations of their families
The chairman of Armenian Armbusinessbank, Sergei Arzumanyan, is not going to file a complaint with the police in connection with media reports claiming that he was beaten in his office room, the police said today
The chairman of Armbusinessbank Board Sergey Arzumanyan was severely beaten up in his office room Monday evening, Haykakan Zhamanak (Armenian Time) newspaper reports, referring to its own sources
Armenian Armbusinessbank denied allegations at Zhoghovurd newspaper about purchase of its control stock by the head of Control Service of Armenian President Hovhannes Hovsepyan
Armenian Armbusinessbank said it has chosen BPC Banking Technologies, the leading provider of Open System e-payment solutions for the global financial industry, to implement its award winning e-payments solution SmartVista to build an in-house processing center.
