Byblos Bank Armenia CJSC announces that the Bank’s Chief Executive Officer Hayk Stepanyan will conclude his tenure with the Bank effective August 1, 2026.
Unibank continues to expand its digital service capabilities by offering customers another convenient option for registering in the UNIMobile application.
Retail clients of VTB (Armenia) can open a "Stable" deposit at a rate of up to 10% per annum when deposited in the national currency for a term of 12 months.
The international rating agency Moody's Ratings has revised the outlook on Armenia's sovereign rating from stable to positive, affirming its long-term issuer ratings in both local and foreign currencies at Ba3.
Armenia's $5.9 billion international reserves cover more than four months of imports and currently provide a fairly reliable hedge against external shocks.
The international rating agency Moody's Ratings has revised the outlook on Armenia's sovereign rating from stable to positive, affirming its long-term issuer ratings in both local and foreign currencies at Ba3.
Armenia's public debt could increase to approximately 50% of GDP by the end of 2026, but the World Bank does not view this level as a significant threat to the country's macroeconomic stability, said Armine Manukyan, Senior Economist at the World Bank.
The World Bank forecasts inflation in Armenia at 4.6% by the end of 2026, up from 3.3% a year earlier, said Armine Manukyan, Senior Economist at the World Bank.
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
Byblos Bank Armenia CJSC announces that the Bank’s Chief Executive Officer Hayk Stepanyan will conclude his tenure with the Bank effective August 1, 2026.
Unibank continues to expand its digital service capabilities by offering customers another convenient option for registering in the UNIMobile application.
Retail clients of VTB (Armenia) can open a "Stable" deposit at a rate of up to 10% per annum when deposited in the national currency for a term of 12 months.
The international rating agency Moody's Ratings has revised the outlook on Armenia's sovereign rating from stable to positive, affirming its long-term issuer ratings in both local and foreign currencies at Ba3.
Armenia's $5.9 billion international reserves cover more than four months of imports and currently provide a fairly reliable hedge against external shocks.
The international rating agency Moody's Ratings has revised the outlook on Armenia's sovereign rating from stable to positive, affirming its long-term issuer ratings in both local and foreign currencies at Ba3.
Armenia's public debt could increase to approximately 50% of GDP by the end of 2026, but the World Bank does not view this level as a significant threat to the country's macroeconomic stability, said Armine Manukyan, Senior Economist at the World Bank.
The World Bank forecasts inflation in Armenia at 4.6% by the end of 2026, up from 3.3% a year earlier, said Armine Manukyan, Senior Economist at the World Bank.
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
Bad assets at Armenia's banks will continue growing, Bagrat Asatryan, a former head of the Central bank of Armenia, said in an interview with ARKA News Agency
The share of nonperforming and written-off assets at banks in Armenia reached 8.23% in late June 2015 after growing 0.04 percentage points over that month and 2.05 percentage points since the beginning of this year, the Central Bank of Armenia says on its website
Armenian commercial banks’ average return on assets (ROA) index, showing a company’s efficiency in making profits from its assets, fell to 0.27% in the first quarter of 2015 from 0.91% in late December 2014
The portion of idle and written- off assets rose by 2.14 percentage points to 6.15% in Armenia as of the end of 2014 compared to 2013, the Central Bank reported
Around 380 billion drams or about 18% of Armenia-based commercial banks’ assets are lent to companies engaged in export and import transactions, deputy chairman of the Central Bank of Armenia Nerses Yeritsyan told reporters today
Non-performing assets of Armenian banks as well as assets they have written off from their balance sheets stood at 5.94% in late July, up 0.61 percentage points when compared to late June, the Central Bank of Armenia said today