Thirty years ago, a group of young people with a bold vision and rather limited resources launched an enterprise whose future scale was difficult to imagine.
To support the replenishment of necessary blood supplies and promote a culture of blood donation, Idram and IDBank have joined the voluntary blood donation initiative organized by the Yeolyan Hematology and Oncology Center.
Unibank announces a new issue of perpetual bonds denominated in AMD. The total issue volume is AMD 3 billion, with the placement scheduled to continue until 4 December 2026.
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.
The Eurasian Fund for Stabilization and Development (EFSD) has raised its GDP growth forecast for Armenia for 2026 to 5.8%, up from the previously expected 5.5%.
The National Assembly of Armenia, at an extraordinary session on Monday, ratified loan and grant agreements totaling $284.4 million with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD, part of the World Bank Group).
The net inflow of cross-border remittances to individuals in Armenia, received from abroad via the banking system of the Republic of Armenia, totaled $1.8 billion in January–August 2026, compared to $889.3 million in January–August 2025, according to a report by the republic's Central Bank.
At its meeting on Thursday, the Armenian government decided to allocate 40.8 billion drams to fund pension and social payments for the fourth quarter of 2026.
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
Thirty years ago, a group of young people with a bold vision and rather limited resources launched an enterprise whose future scale was difficult to imagine.
To support the replenishment of necessary blood supplies and promote a culture of blood donation, Idram and IDBank have joined the voluntary blood donation initiative organized by the Yeolyan Hematology and Oncology Center.
Unibank announces a new issue of perpetual bonds denominated in AMD. The total issue volume is AMD 3 billion, with the placement scheduled to continue until 4 December 2026.
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.
The Eurasian Fund for Stabilization and Development (EFSD) has raised its GDP growth forecast for Armenia for 2026 to 5.8%, up from the previously expected 5.5%.
The National Assembly of Armenia, at an extraordinary session on Monday, ratified loan and grant agreements totaling $284.4 million with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD, part of the World Bank Group).
The net inflow of cross-border remittances to individuals in Armenia, received from abroad via the banking system of the Republic of Armenia, totaled $1.8 billion in January–August 2026, compared to $889.3 million in January–August 2025, according to a report by the republic's Central Bank.
At its meeting on Thursday, the Armenian government decided to allocate 40.8 billion drams to fund pension and social payments for the fourth quarter of 2026.
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
In November 2025, the average exchange rate of the Armenian dram to the US dollar was 382.0 drams, which is 1.8% lower than the same figure in November 2024 (389.0 drams).
The average market exchange rate of the U.S. dollar to the Armenian dram on February 24, 2025, totalled 393.9 drams, down 0.51 points compared to February 21.
Armenia's national currency, the dram, was the only currency across the Eurasian Economic Union (it also includes Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kingston) that did not depreciate against the US Dollar in 2019, according to a report on major socio-economic indicators of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) in 2019
The average market exchange rate of the US dollar has grown today by 0.42 percentage point over the Armenian dram from September 5 to 484.52 drams, the Central Bank said
The average market value of the US dollar against the Armenian dram has grown today by 0.19 percentage points from June 6 to 483.49 drams, the Central Bank said
Armenian commercial banks bought a total of $69.2 million from the local intra-bank foreign currency market from September 4 to September 8 at the weighted average exchange rate of 477.51 drams for $1, the press service of the Central Bank reported
Residents’ deposits in drams in Armenia grew 1.2% in May 2017, compared with the previous month, to AMD 750 billion, and dollar deposits shrank 0.8% to AMD 1 066.8 billion, the Central Bank of Armenia reports on its website
The euro went 0.24 percentage points down against the Armenian national currency on Wednesday, compared with Tuesday, and traded at 499.81 drams, on average, at Armenia’s forex market
