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.
In June, 2020 consumer prices in Armenia increased by 1.7% compared to June 2019, and dropped by 1.54% from the previous month of 2020, the National Statistical Committee (NSC) said. The inflation in the first five months of 2020 was 0.5%, it said
More than $164.2 million were remitted to Armenia in 2018 June via banks as private money transfers for non-commercial purposes, which was by 1.2% more than the figure for June 2017, the Central Bank said. According to the Central Bank
Deposits at Armenia’s banks totaled AMD 2 425.9 billion in late June 2017 after shrinking 0.3% over one month, the Central Bank of Armenia reports on its website
Armenia’s gross international reserves totaled $1 566.4 million in late June 2016 after growing 2.24% or by $34.4 million over one month, the Central Bank of Armenia reports
Some 140,400 transactions totaling AMD 6.4 billion were made outside Armenia in June 2015 by using all the types of plastic cards issued by Armenian banks – 2.9% month-on-month decline and 5.8% growth respectively
The aggregate loan portfolio of Armenia’s commercial banks has been grown 4.8% since the beginning of this year reaching about AMD 1884.2 billion by late June
Armenian commercial banks’ aggregate overdue loan portfolio reached AMD 23.2 billion and made up 1.38% of their loan portfolio by late July after growing 2.9% over one month
