The FINTECH360 International Conference will bring together over 500 participants in Yerevan from April 27 to 29, welcoming senior industry executives from banks, money transfer companies, payment platforms, IT firms, and startups representing more than 30 countries.
To spur the development of artificial intelligence infrastructure in Armenia, Acba Bank and Amundi-Acba Asset Management have invested a total of $45 million in Firebird to establish an AI factory and data center.
At its session on Wednesday, the National Assembly of Armenia adopted in the first reading a legislative package amending the Criminal Procedure Code of the Republic of Armenia and related laws.
Cross-border remittance inflow to Armenia increased by 2.4% year-on-year in 2025, reaching $5.9 billion, according to the Eurasian Development Bank's March macroeconomic review.
The likelihood of the Central Bank of Armenia switching to tougher monetary rhetoric and potentially raising the rate in the short term may increase, Rafael Mkrtchyan, Head of Corporate Finance at Freedom Broker Armenia, told ARKA news agency.
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.
At its session on Wednesday, the National Assembly of Armenia adopted amendments to the RA Bankruptcy Code in the first reading, along with the accompanying legislation.
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 FINTECH360 International Conference will bring together over 500 participants in Yerevan from April 27 to 29, welcoming senior industry executives from banks, money transfer companies, payment platforms, IT firms, and startups representing more than 30 countries.
To spur the development of artificial intelligence infrastructure in Armenia, Acba Bank and Amundi-Acba Asset Management have invested a total of $45 million in Firebird to establish an AI factory and data center.
At its session on Wednesday, the National Assembly of Armenia adopted in the first reading a legislative package amending the Criminal Procedure Code of the Republic of Armenia and related laws.
Cross-border remittance inflow to Armenia increased by 2.4% year-on-year in 2025, reaching $5.9 billion, according to the Eurasian Development Bank's March macroeconomic review.
The likelihood of the Central Bank of Armenia switching to tougher monetary rhetoric and potentially raising the rate in the short term may increase, Rafael Mkrtchyan, Head of Corporate Finance at Freedom Broker Armenia, told ARKA news agency.
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.
At its session on Wednesday, the National Assembly of Armenia adopted amendments to the RA Bankruptcy Code in the first reading, along with the accompanying legislation.
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.
Armenia’s Deputy Prime Minister Suren Papikyan and the Chairman of the Executive Board of the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) Nikolai Podguzov agreed today that the partnership between the Armenian government and the EDB is a good basis for the successful implementation of joint projects in future
The Council of the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) chaired by Askar Mamin, Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, approved the EDB’s Strategy for 2022–2026. The participants in the meeting were the representative plenipotentiary of the Bank’s shareholders, including Mher Grigoryan, Deputy Prime Minister, Armenia; Yuri Seliverstov, Minister of Finance, Belarus; Alikhan Smailov, First Deputy Prime Minister, Kazakhstan; Akylbek Japarov, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Finance, Kyrgyz Republic; Anton Siluanov, Minister of Finance, Russia; and Yusuf Majidi, Deputy Minister of Finance, Tajikistan
Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan had a video conversation with the President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Odile Renaud-Basso on Friday, the press service of the government reported
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) responded to the Covid-19 pandemic in Armenia in 2020 with record investment of €167 million for projects in energy, banking and transport and through trade finance support, the Bank said in a press release today. The Bank helped to address the immediate and longer-term needs of the country’s economy
Armenia's investment climate, according to the latest Doing Business 2019 report, is satisfactory, said Andrey Shirokov, the Executive Director of the Project Unit at the Eurasian Fund for Stabilization and Development (EFSD)
There is a small, but organized Diaspora in Singapore the representatives of which successfully operate in different areas, including technological. Singapore’s Temasek Holdings Foundation Co-cohair Nagi Hamiyeh said Monday as he met with Armenian Prime Minster Nikol Pashinyan, who is in Singapore now for an official visit, the press office of the Armenian government reports
Gazelle Finance, a U.S. investment fund manager, has launched investment operations in Armenia targeting investments in high growth small and medium enterprises
VTB Bank (Armenia) took part in an exhibition titled "Banks, Investment and Credit Organizations of Armenia" organized by THE Nur Expo company with the support of the Yerevan Municipality. The two-day exhibition started on Thursday in the premises of the Yerevan History Museum
Armenia’s Araratbank will pay special attention to digital-banking and investment services in 2017, Ashot Osipayn, Araratbank executive director, told journalists on Wednesday
The total amount of transactions formalized by Armenia’s investment companies reached AMD 57.4 billion in April 2016 showing a 41.2% year-on-year growth and 15.2% month-on-month contraction, the Central Bank of Armenia reports in a fresh issue of its monthly bulletin
