The Armenian brokerage market continues to grow, but its future development will be determined not so much by the number of open accounts as by its ability to attract and retain active investors.
The Board of the Central Bank of Armenia has decided to increase the countercyclical capital buffer for banks by 0.25 percentage points, setting it at 2.25% of risk-weighted assets.
From climate change mitigation to environmental education and innovative solutions, the "Climate Change and Women" award ceremony united leading women in the field, highlighting their initiatives and contributions to biodiversity conservation.
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.
All 17 commercial banks currently operating in Armenia were included in the list of the country’s 1,000 largest taxpayers for the first nine months of 2026, according to data from the State Revenue Committee of the Republic of Armenia.
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 Armenian brokerage market continues to grow, but its future development will be determined not so much by the number of open accounts as by its ability to attract and retain active investors.
The Board of the Central Bank of Armenia has decided to increase the countercyclical capital buffer for banks by 0.25 percentage points, setting it at 2.25% of risk-weighted assets.
From climate change mitigation to environmental education and innovative solutions, the "Climate Change and Women" award ceremony united leading women in the field, highlighting their initiatives and contributions to biodiversity conservation.
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.
All 17 commercial banks currently operating in Armenia were included in the list of the country’s 1,000 largest taxpayers for the first nine months of 2026, according to data from the State Revenue Committee of the Republic of Armenia.
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.
Armenian credit organizations have written off 500 million drams worth loans of those who were killed during the last autumn war in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone and their family members, chairman of the Central Bank Martin Galstyan told a parliament session today
Credit organizations in Armenia will award credit holidays to those borrowers who have volunteered or were called up to the armed forces for the entire period of marshal law, declared after the large-scale offensive by Azerbaijan against Nagorno-Karabakh, the Union of Credit Organizations said in a statement today
As of April 27, banks and credit organizations of Armenia together have granted credit vacations or otherwise revised 758,325 loans of 470,000 individuals worth 26.5 billion drams, as well as 16,356 loans of 14,6 00 legal entities in the amount of 48.3 billion drams, the press service of the Union of Banks of Armenia reports
Armenian banks and credit organizations have provided individuals and legal entities with "loan holidays" worth 61.8 billion drams, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan wrote in a Facebook posting on Thursday
ARKA news agency has released its economic and financial bulletin “Credit Organizations of Armenia” for the first quarter of 2019. The bulletin is compiled based on officially published financial reports of credit organizations (CO)
Loans issued by credit organizations in Armenia amounted to 406.4 billion drams at the end of September, having increased by 51.2 billion drams or 14.4% from the beginning of the year
Out of 35 credit organizations operating in Armenia, 33 were profitable in the third quarter of 2018 earning a total of 38.58 billion drams, according to ARKA news agency’s ranking. The other 2 companies reported losses to the tune of 35.2 million drams
The overall amount of lending and leasing operations of Armenia-based 35 credit organizations in the first quarter of 2018 amounted to 394.3 billion drams
