YEREVAN, August 11. /ARКА/. The Board of the Central Bank of Armenia has sanctioned changes to the regulations governing the issuance and utilization of electronic money, with the goal of fostering a more efficient and competitive payment landscape.
Precise mathematical calculations, financial skills, and boundless enthusiasm: the latest stage of the Junius financial tournament has successfully concluded.
YEREVAN, August 10. /ARKA/. The average market exchange rate of the US dollar to the Armenian dram on the Armenian foreign exchange market, fell by 0.29 points on August 10, 2026, compared to August 7, to 365.88 drams.
Armenia's financial agenda last week was determined by the Central Bank's maintenance of current monetary conditions, indicators of the banking and non-banking credit sectors, capital market activity, the state of public debt, and decisions on attracting financing from international financial institutions.
The Armenian Ministry of Internal Affairs' cyber police have warned of a fraudulent advertisement actively spreading on social media, purporting to be a joint offer from AMIO Bank and Yandex Eats.
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.
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 total public debt as of June 30, 2026, amounted to $13,900.932 million, an increase of $8.476 million compared to May 31, 2026, according to a report by the Statistical Committee of Armenia.
Armenia's interdepartmental commission will soon present for discussion an action plan to implement MONEYVAL recommendations, said Daniel Azatyan, Chairman of the Union of Banks of Armenia, in response to a question from ARKA news agency.
The net inflow of cross-border transfers to individuals in Armenia, received from abroad through the Armenian banking system, amounted to $1.38 billion in January-June 2026, compared to $587.6 million in January-June 2025, according to a report from the Central Bank of the Republic.
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
YEREVAN, August 11. /ARКА/. The Board of the Central Bank of Armenia has sanctioned changes to the regulations governing the issuance and utilization of electronic money, with the goal of fostering a more efficient and competitive payment landscape.
Precise mathematical calculations, financial skills, and boundless enthusiasm: the latest stage of the Junius financial tournament has successfully concluded.
YEREVAN, August 10. /ARKA/. The average market exchange rate of the US dollar to the Armenian dram on the Armenian foreign exchange market, fell by 0.29 points on August 10, 2026, compared to August 7, to 365.88 drams.
Armenia's financial agenda last week was determined by the Central Bank's maintenance of current monetary conditions, indicators of the banking and non-banking credit sectors, capital market activity, the state of public debt, and decisions on attracting financing from international financial institutions.
The Armenian Ministry of Internal Affairs' cyber police have warned of a fraudulent advertisement actively spreading on social media, purporting to be a joint offer from AMIO Bank and Yandex Eats.
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.
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 total public debt as of June 30, 2026, amounted to $13,900.932 million, an increase of $8.476 million compared to May 31, 2026, according to a report by the Statistical Committee of Armenia.
Armenia's interdepartmental commission will soon present for discussion an action plan to implement MONEYVAL recommendations, said Daniel Azatyan, Chairman of the Union of Banks of Armenia, in response to a question from ARKA news agency.
The net inflow of cross-border transfers to individuals in Armenia, received from abroad through the Armenian banking system, amounted to $1.38 billion in January-June 2026, compared to $587.6 million in January-June 2025, according to a report from the Central Bank of the Republic.
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
As a leading bank in Armenia’s installment loans market, VTB Bank (Armenia) provides customers with the opportunity to purchase goods and services on installment in more than 600 outlets, which are its partners, thereby allowing customers to buy goods and services now and pay for them over the next months
VTB Bank (Armenia) customers can now make money transfers to Visa, MasterCard, MIR, Union Pay cards issued by foreign banks, as well as to bank accounts in the EU member countries. The money is credited to the account instantly; the commission is up to 1.5% of the transfer amount, the press service of the bank reported
Holders of MasterCard cards who will use them to pay for their daily purchases until 06/30/2021 will join a promotion campaign and get a cashback in the amount of 20 thousand to 800 thousand drams, VTB Bank (Armenia) said today
Today, on the occasion of the birthday of the greatest Armenian poet Hovhannes Tumanyan, which is marked also as the Book Donation Day, AraratBank presented books to its book-loving customers
Unibank has made a decision to forgive its individual customers' fines and penalties for bad loans, which are calculated and reflected in the bank's off-balance account
The Yerevan-based Unibank said today that customers may apply also online for Non-Cash consumer loans without having to visit its head office or one of its branches
Armenian banks’ lending to customers outside the capital city and in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic was higher than in Yerevan, according to a Central Bank’s study on composition and structure of credit investments and borrowed funds of banks and credit organizations from June 2014 to June 2015
About 1,000 customers of VTB Bank (Armenia), who had made their installment repayments in good faith, were refunded part of interest as part of "Super Rate» service
