At its meeting on Tuesday, the Armenian National Assembly's Committee on Economic Affairs approved draft amendments to the RA Tax Code and the Law "On State Duty," which provide for changes in taxation of the banking sector.
Summer is already in the air across Yerevan. People are choosing to walk more, work from open-air cafés, meet friends outdoors, or simply pause for a few minutes to enjoy their favorite iced latte.
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.
Net non-commercial remittances in Armenia increased by 11.7% year-on-year in March, following a 5.2% year-on-year increase in February, according to the World Bank's "Armenia Monthly Economic Update – May 2026."
Inflation in Armenia continued to rise in April amid tensions due to the Middle East conflict and in supply chains, according to the World Bank's "Armenia Monthly Economic Update – May 2026."
From January to April 2026, the Yerevan budget actually received 31.6 billion drams of its planned 28.5 billion drams in revenues, according to David Hakobyan, Acting Head of the Revenue Accounting and Collection Department at the Yerevan City Hall.
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
At its meeting on Tuesday, the Armenian National Assembly's Committee on Economic Affairs approved draft amendments to the RA Tax Code and the Law "On State Duty," which provide for changes in taxation of the banking sector.
Summer is already in the air across Yerevan. People are choosing to walk more, work from open-air cafés, meet friends outdoors, or simply pause for a few minutes to enjoy their favorite iced latte.
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.
Net non-commercial remittances in Armenia increased by 11.7% year-on-year in March, following a 5.2% year-on-year increase in February, according to the World Bank's "Armenia Monthly Economic Update – May 2026."
Inflation in Armenia continued to rise in April amid tensions due to the Middle East conflict and in supply chains, according to the World Bank's "Armenia Monthly Economic Update – May 2026."
From January to April 2026, the Yerevan budget actually received 31.6 billion drams of its planned 28.5 billion drams in revenues, according to David Hakobyan, Acting Head of the Revenue Accounting and Collection Department at the Yerevan City Hall.
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
Small and medium businesses account for approximately 37% of Armenia's economy and receive approximately 60% of business loans, stated Daniel Azatyan, Chairman of the Union of Banks of Armenia.
The capital of all 17 Armenia-based banks in the third quarter of 2021 stood at 927 billion drams, Executive Director of the Union of Banks of Armenia (UBA) Seyran Sargsyan said
There is no outflow of funds from Armenian banks, and the total bank deposits have grown over 3.5 trillion drams, despite a difficult year and certain fluctuations, Executive Director of the Union of Banks of Armenia Seyran Sargsyan told reporters on Wednesday during a video conference organized by the Club of Economic Journalists
'Now it is more than necessary to support the heroes of the Karabakh war and their families,' the Union of Banks of Armenia said in a statement today issued in connection with the Day of the Banker, celebrated on November 23
Maintaining Armenian banking sector's stability is very important amid ongoing coronavirus crisis, said Seyran Sargsyan, the executive director of the Union of Banks of Armenia (UBA), which has become 25 years old
The biggest risk in the banking system of Armenia and beyond it today is the uncertainty due to the new coronavirus, Seyran Sargsyan, the executive director of the Union of Banks of Armenia (UBA) told reporters at an online press conference on Tuesday
The Union of Banks of Armenia, in its statement released on Monday, urges everybody to refrain from speculation about the country's banking system amid the spread of the coronavirus COVID-19
