In Armenia, the fraud scheme based on trust in relatives continues to remain widely spread. Fraudsters exploit users’ care and willingness to help those in danger.
Armenia and Georgia are exploring deeper cooperation in financial technology, including synchronizing instant payment systems, simplifying bank account opening, and implementing unified QR codes, announced by Varlam Ebanoidze, Head of the Financial and Supervisory Technologies Development Department at the National Bank of Georgia.
IDBank took part in the regional conference “Opportunities and Prospects for Cooperation between Business and the Banking System in Lori Region,” held in Vanadzor and organized by the Union of Banks of Armenia.
The loan portfolio of Armenia's banking system increased by 29.89% in the third quarter of 2025 compared to the same quarter of 2024, reaching AMD 7.16 trillion.
The combined loan portfolio of 17 Armenia-based commercial banks upped by 6.11% in Q2 2025 compared to Q1 2025, amounting to AMD 6.82 trillion, according to a ranking compiled by the ARKA news agency.
Twelve-month inflation in the Armenian consumer market in March of this year was 4.5%, according to a report from the Statistical Committee of Armenia.
Central Bank of Armenia Governor Martin Galstyan held a final meeting with Alexander Timan, head of the IMF mission to Armenia, the regulator's press service reported.
Armenian Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigoryan and Asian Development Bank (ADB) Regional Managing Director Leah Gutierrez discussed the implementation of joint programs.
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
Interest in financial markets is growing in Armenia, and more and more people are thinking about how to build long-term capital. Many don't know where to start or how to avoid mistakes.
In Armenia, the fraud scheme based on trust in relatives continues to remain widely spread. Fraudsters exploit users’ care and willingness to help those in danger.
Armenia and Georgia are exploring deeper cooperation in financial technology, including synchronizing instant payment systems, simplifying bank account opening, and implementing unified QR codes, announced by Varlam Ebanoidze, Head of the Financial and Supervisory Technologies Development Department at the National Bank of Georgia.
IDBank took part in the regional conference “Opportunities and Prospects for Cooperation between Business and the Banking System in Lori Region,” held in Vanadzor and organized by the Union of Banks of Armenia.
The loan portfolio of Armenia's banking system increased by 29.89% in the third quarter of 2025 compared to the same quarter of 2024, reaching AMD 7.16 trillion.
The combined loan portfolio of 17 Armenia-based commercial banks upped by 6.11% in Q2 2025 compared to Q1 2025, amounting to AMD 6.82 trillion, according to a ranking compiled by the ARKA news agency.
Twelve-month inflation in the Armenian consumer market in March of this year was 4.5%, according to a report from the Statistical Committee of Armenia.
Central Bank of Armenia Governor Martin Galstyan held a final meeting with Alexander Timan, head of the IMF mission to Armenia, the regulator's press service reported.
Armenian Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigoryan and Asian Development Bank (ADB) Regional Managing Director Leah Gutierrez discussed the implementation of joint programs.
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
Interest in financial markets is growing in Armenia, and more and more people are thinking about how to build long-term capital. Many don't know where to start or how to avoid mistakes.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing a local currency loan in Armenian drams equivalent to US$ 8 million through a local currency financing facility to ACBA-CREDIT AGRICOLE BANK (ACBA), the EBRD press office reported on Thursday
Armenia and the World Bank signed December 8 a US$50 million development policy finance operation to support the Government’s reforms program across key economic areas
The Yerevan-based Unibank said today that applications for receiving consumer loans U-Cash, provided in Armenia’s national currency, the dram, can be made online as well, without visiting the bank
VTB Bank (Armenia) has unveiled today a new service called "Redemption of loans for consumer purposes," available at more affordable terms, saying in a press release that the loans can be used to pay off one or several loans in an another bank or banks
Anelik Bank, continuing to expand the range of its lending products, offers a new type of loans – Fast Resources, the bank’s press office reported on Wednesday
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
As of October 1, 2015 the total credit portfolio of Armenian banks' branches in Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) increased by 13.8% from the same period of 2014 to 87.289.4 billion drams, the National Statistical Service of NKR said. But compared to the previous month the portfolio was less by 2%
Armenian commercial banks’ overall credit investments in the first quarter of 2015 dropped by 3.54% from the beginning of the year to 2.075.6 trillion drams, according to ARKA news agency’s latest issue of Financial and Economic Bulletin (Armenian banks performance indicators for the first quarter of 2015)
Armenian Ardshinbank said today it has raised the ceiling of credit lines available to holders of its payroll cards up to ten times the size of their net wage. According to a bank’s press release, the credit lines are available in the national currency, the dram
ACBA-CREDIT AGRICOLE BANK has unveiled today a new type of loan called Credit+ designed specifically for legal entities which have taken loans from another bank or credit organization and need to obtain new funds without spending additional time, the bank’s press office reports
The total credit portfolio of Armenian banks’ branches in Nagorno-Karabakh stood at 78 billion drams on March 1, 2014, an increase of 1.6 percent from the year before, according to Nagorno-Karabakh Statistical Service
