All 17 Armenia-based commercial banks are included in the list of the 1,000 largest taxpayers in the first quarter of 2026, having paid a total of 28.65 billion drams to the state budget, according to data released today by the State Revenue Committee.
In light of the decision of the Central Bank of the Republic of Armenia dated April 2, 2026, to reduce risk coefficients for applications from micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises when calculating credit risk, Unibank is reviewing and improving its lending terms.
VTB (Armenia) is seeing steady growth in demand for its small business loan product with a simplified application process—no collateral required, no additional financial analysis required.
Armenian Acba Bank is expanding its international partner network by partnering with one of the world's most respected financial institutions, The Bank of New York Mellon, the bank's press service reported.
As of March 31, 2026, the total loan portfolio of Armenian banks stood at AMD 8.01 trillion, marking a 22.63% rise compared to March 31, 2025, and a 4.05% increase from December 31, 2025.
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.
A new law on payment services is being developed in Armenia, taking into account modern trends in financial technology development, said Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank of Armenia Hovhannes Khachatryan.
The week in Armenia's financial market was marked by the publication of financial indicators for the banking sector, updated macroeconomic indicators, and signals regarding capital market development.
In February 2026, commercial bank deposits in Armenia decreased by 0.2% (MoM), while lending grew by 0.9% (MoM), according to the World Bank's "Armenia Monthly Economic Update – April 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
All 17 Armenia-based commercial banks are included in the list of the 1,000 largest taxpayers in the first quarter of 2026, having paid a total of 28.65 billion drams to the state budget, according to data released today by the State Revenue Committee.
In light of the decision of the Central Bank of the Republic of Armenia dated April 2, 2026, to reduce risk coefficients for applications from micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises when calculating credit risk, Unibank is reviewing and improving its lending terms.
VTB (Armenia) is seeing steady growth in demand for its small business loan product with a simplified application process—no collateral required, no additional financial analysis required.
Armenian Acba Bank is expanding its international partner network by partnering with one of the world's most respected financial institutions, The Bank of New York Mellon, the bank's press service reported.
As of March 31, 2026, the total loan portfolio of Armenian banks stood at AMD 8.01 trillion, marking a 22.63% rise compared to March 31, 2025, and a 4.05% increase from December 31, 2025.
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.
A new law on payment services is being developed in Armenia, taking into account modern trends in financial technology development, said Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank of Armenia Hovhannes Khachatryan.
The week in Armenia's financial market was marked by the publication of financial indicators for the banking sector, updated macroeconomic indicators, and signals regarding capital market development.
In February 2026, commercial bank deposits in Armenia decreased by 0.2% (MoM), while lending grew by 0.9% (MoM), according to the World Bank's "Armenia Monthly Economic Update – April 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
The total amount of non-cash transactions made in Armenia by using banking cards in 2018 soared by 47.2% from the previous year to 395.9 billion drams
Converse Bank has announced today the launch of traditional campaigns devoted to spring holidays. Within the framework of the first one, from March 1 to April 7
All types of plastic cards were used in Armenia in the third quarter of 2017 to make a total of 399.9 billion drams worth transactions, by 8.7% more than in the same time span of 2016, the Central Bank reported today
All types of plastic cards were used in Armenia in 2016 to make a total of 1.410.02 trillion drams worth transactions, by 2% less than in 2015, the Central Bank reported today
All types of plastic cards were used in Armenia to make 315.4 billion drams worth transactions in the first quarter of 2016, the Central Bank reported today adding also that the amount represented a 5.3% rise when compared with the same period of 2015
Plastic cards issued by Armenian commercial banks were used outside the country to make about 5.75 billion drams worth transactions in 2016 April, a 4.2% drop from the previous month, according to Central Bank’s bulletin. The number of transactions fell by 7 percent to 161,300
Transactions carried out abroad in February by using all the types of the plastic cards issued by Armenia’s commercial banks amounted to AMD 5.8 billion showing a 20.7% month-on-month decline
The plastic cards of Armenian commercial banks were used in July to make 6.4 billion drams worth transactions outside the country, a 36.5% increase from June, the Central Bank of Armenia said in its monthly bulleting for July. It said the total number of transactions rose to 110,000, an increase of 24 percent from June
The number of plastic cards, issued by Armenian Converse Bank to its customers in 2012 increased by 90% from the previous year to a total of 100 thousand, according to its chief executive officer Tigran Davtian
ANELIK BANK BOOM ENERGY VISA Classic card holders will enjoy unprecedented preferences in culture centers in Yerevan, Anelik Bank’s press office reports
Armenian banks, members of ArCA payment system, will suspend issuance of plastic cards from January 29 to February 14 in connection with upgrading the software of its processing company, the Union of Banks of Armenia said today in a press release
Armenia’s national payment system Armenian Card (ArCa) said today it has eliminated the failure in the operation of ATMs, which was reported Tuesday morning
