The Central Bank of Armenia plans to implement the concepts of Open Banking and Open Finance in the coming years, as well as change its approach to banking licensing. This was stated by Central Bank Chairman Martin Galstyan in an interview with Hetq.
Acba Bank is the official partner of the Armenia pavilion in the Green Zone of the 17th Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (COP17).
Opportunities for attracting private capital, expanding public-private partnerships (PPPs), and implementing the "Crossroads of Peace" project were discussed at a meeting between Armenian Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigoryan and an Asian Development Bank (ADB) delegation led by Vice President Wempi Saputra.
YEREVAN, August 10. /ARKA/. As of June 30, 2026, the total loan investment and leasing portfolio of Armenian credit institutions reached 681.8 billion drams, reflecting a 1.64% increase from the previous quarter and a 3.23% rise since the start of the year.
Armenian Finance Minister Vahe Hovhannisyan and Asian Development Bank (ADB) Vice President Wempi Saputra discussed prospects for expanding cooperation, including in infrastructure investment and promoting the export of Armenian products.
Armenia has streamlined the process for filing annual personal income tax declarations, expanded the scope of data that is auto-populated, and defined categories of non-taxable income that citizens are not required to include in their declarations.
As of September 30, 2026, Yerevan’s budget had received 75.7 billion drams in own revenues, surpassing the 72.9 billion drams projected for the January–September period, reported David Hakobyan, acting head of the Revenue Accounting and Collection Department at the Yerevan City Hall.
The Central Bank of Armenia has shifted its focus from a single baseline scenario to an analysis of multiple potential scenarios, aiming to identify those that pose the most significant threats, according to the regulator’s Governor, Martin Galstyan.
Should Armenia’s participation in the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) be suspended, monetary transfers from EAEU member states to Armenia could fall from a projected $3,953.5 million in 2025 to $1,850 million—a decrease of $2,103.5 million.
Armenia’s corporate bond market is entering a new stage of development, expanding opportunities for businesses to secure financing while offering investors an alternative to bank deposits.
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 Central Bank of Armenia plans to implement the concepts of Open Banking and Open Finance in the coming years, as well as change its approach to banking licensing. This was stated by Central Bank Chairman Martin Galstyan in an interview with Hetq.
Acba Bank is the official partner of the Armenia pavilion in the Green Zone of the 17th Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (COP17).
Opportunities for attracting private capital, expanding public-private partnerships (PPPs), and implementing the "Crossroads of Peace" project were discussed at a meeting between Armenian Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigoryan and an Asian Development Bank (ADB) delegation led by Vice President Wempi Saputra.
YEREVAN, August 10. /ARKA/. As of June 30, 2026, the total loan investment and leasing portfolio of Armenian credit institutions reached 681.8 billion drams, reflecting a 1.64% increase from the previous quarter and a 3.23% rise since the start of the year.
Armenian Finance Minister Vahe Hovhannisyan and Asian Development Bank (ADB) Vice President Wempi Saputra discussed prospects for expanding cooperation, including in infrastructure investment and promoting the export of Armenian products.
Armenia has streamlined the process for filing annual personal income tax declarations, expanded the scope of data that is auto-populated, and defined categories of non-taxable income that citizens are not required to include in their declarations.
As of September 30, 2026, Yerevan’s budget had received 75.7 billion drams in own revenues, surpassing the 72.9 billion drams projected for the January–September period, reported David Hakobyan, acting head of the Revenue Accounting and Collection Department at the Yerevan City Hall.
The Central Bank of Armenia has shifted its focus from a single baseline scenario to an analysis of multiple potential scenarios, aiming to identify those that pose the most significant threats, according to the regulator’s Governor, Martin Galstyan.
Should Armenia’s participation in the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) be suspended, monetary transfers from EAEU member states to Armenia could fall from a projected $3,953.5 million in 2025 to $1,850 million—a decrease of $2,103.5 million.
Armenia’s corporate bond market is entering a new stage of development, expanding opportunities for businesses to secure financing while offering investors an alternative to bank deposits.
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.
Developing Armenia's capital market is considered key to increasing the availability of long-term financing and supporting investment, economic diversification, and sustainable growth, according to the ADB's Asian Development Outlook (April 2026).
The capital of all 17 Armenia-based banks in the third quarter of 2021 stood at 927 billion drams, Executive Director of the Union of Banks of Armenia (UBA) Seyran Sargsyan said
The total capital of 17 Armenia-based commercial banks in the first quarter of 2021 stood at 913 billion drams, Executive Director of the Union of Banks of Armenia Seyran Sargsyan said at a press conference on Wednesday
The total capital of 17 Armenia-based commercial banks in the first 9 months of 2019 increased by 6.2% or 47 billion drams amounting to 818.6 billion drams
Banks in Armenia are better positioned to meet challenges as capital levels have been boosted to comply with new regulations, Fitch Ratings said at its annual conference on Armenia in Yerevan today
The aggregate share capital of 34 universal credit organizations operating in Armenia amounted to 184.9 billion drams in late 2016, having grown by 34.7% from the previous year, according to an ARKA news agency’s analysis
The total capital of Armenia’s banks grew 30% or by about AMD 200 billion to more than AMD 600 billion in 2016, Nerses Yeritsyan, deputy chairman of the Central Bank of Armenia, said Tuesday in the National Assembly
The total capital of the Central Bank of Armenia amounted to AMD 17.3 billion in late September 2016 against AMD 2.6 billion in late December 2015, the regulator’s press office reported on Wednesday
Armenian universal credit organizations’ (UCO) combined own capital in the third quarter of 2016 grew by 22.1% from the beginning of the year to 164.9 billion drams, according to ARKA news agency’s analysis
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
