The quality of the loan portfolio of Armenian banks has improved due to a decrease in the share of problem debt from 2.4% to 1.2%, according to the regional economic review of the Eurasian Fund for Stabilization and Development (EFSD) “Winter 2024–2025.”
Bank lending growth rates in Armenia exceeded the growth rates of deposits (21.1% and 10.8% y/y, respectively) by the end of September 2024, contributing to the reduction of excess liquidity in the banking sector, the Eurasian Fund for Stabilization and Development (EFSD) regional economic review “Winter 2024-2025” says.
In 2019, Armenia-based commercial banks earned a total of 78.8 billion drams in net profit, up from 56.4 billion drams they had earned in 2018, according to ARKA news agency's ranking of the most profitable commercial banks in the fourth quarter of 2019
ARKA News Agency has released the ranking of the biggest profit-gainers among Armenia's commercial banks for Jan-Sept 2019. The Armenian banking sector's aggregate net profit for Jan-Sept 2019 amounted to AMD 60.9 billion against the AMD 51.7 billion of the same period a year before showing a 18% year-on-year growth. All the 17 banks of the country operated with profits
ARKA News Agency announces the launch of the updated website Arkatelecom.am — the first specialized resource in the field of high technologies and telecommunications in Armenia, operating since 2008.
The pace of price growth in Armenia is expected to gradually increase in the coming months, driven by the easing of monetary policy and the recovery in global food prices, according to the weekly macro review of the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB).
Armenia's investment climate is undergoing significant changes, and the financial market is becoming more active. Armen Hovhannisyan, Director of investment banking at Dimension Investments, speaks in an exclusive interview with ARKA news agency about the barriers to development, tools for accelerating growth, as well as the prospects of venture capital.
On August 23, international credit rating agency S&P Global Ratings reaffirmed Armenia's long-term and short-term sovereign credit ratings in both foreign and local currency at "BB-/B." The agency also maintained its "stable" outlook for the country.
In an exclusive interview with ARKA news agency CEO of Armenian Securities Exchange (AMX) Hayk Yeganyan spoke about the strategy of the exchange, prospects of the securities market development, as well as the obstacles on this path
Andranik Grigoryan, the CEO of Converse Bank, addressed key topics in an interview with AmCham magazine, including customer interests, digital financial services improvement, and Converse Bank's digital team organization. Read the full interview with Andranik Grigoryan
The quality of the loan portfolio of Armenian banks has improved due to a decrease in the share of problem debt from 2.4% to 1.2%, according to the regional economic review of the Eurasian Fund for Stabilization and Development (EFSD) “Winter 2024–2025.”
Bank lending growth rates in Armenia exceeded the growth rates of deposits (21.1% and 10.8% y/y, respectively) by the end of September 2024, contributing to the reduction of excess liquidity in the banking sector, the Eurasian Fund for Stabilization and Development (EFSD) regional economic review “Winter 2024-2025” says.
In 2019, Armenia-based commercial banks earned a total of 78.8 billion drams in net profit, up from 56.4 billion drams they had earned in 2018, according to ARKA news agency's ranking of the most profitable commercial banks in the fourth quarter of 2019
ARKA News Agency has released the ranking of the biggest profit-gainers among Armenia's commercial banks for Jan-Sept 2019. The Armenian banking sector's aggregate net profit for Jan-Sept 2019 amounted to AMD 60.9 billion against the AMD 51.7 billion of the same period a year before showing a 18% year-on-year growth. All the 17 banks of the country operated with profits
ARKA News Agency announces the launch of the updated website Arkatelecom.am — the first specialized resource in the field of high technologies and telecommunications in Armenia, operating since 2008.
The pace of price growth in Armenia is expected to gradually increase in the coming months, driven by the easing of monetary policy and the recovery in global food prices, according to the weekly macro review of the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB).
Armenia's investment climate is undergoing significant changes, and the financial market is becoming more active. Armen Hovhannisyan, Director of investment banking at Dimension Investments, speaks in an exclusive interview with ARKA news agency about the barriers to development, tools for accelerating growth, as well as the prospects of venture capital.
On August 23, international credit rating agency S&P Global Ratings reaffirmed Armenia's long-term and short-term sovereign credit ratings in both foreign and local currency at "BB-/B." The agency also maintained its "stable" outlook for the country.
In an exclusive interview with ARKA news agency CEO of Armenian Securities Exchange (AMX) Hayk Yeganyan spoke about the strategy of the exchange, prospects of the securities market development, as well as the obstacles on this path
Andranik Grigoryan, the CEO of Converse Bank, addressed key topics in an interview with AmCham magazine, including customer interests, digital financial services improvement, and Converse Bank's digital team organization. Read the full interview with Andranik Grigoryan
Prompted by the worsening socio-economic situation caused by the coronavirus pandemic and Nagorno-Karabakh post-war developments, as well as the slow economic recovery, on April 30, 2021, Armenia's Ministry of Finance officially applied to the International Development Agency (part of the World Bank Group) with a request to extend the decision on cancelling the additional 1.7% interest rate on loans for another year
In 2020, Armenia experienced one of the region’s sharpest GDP contractions—7.6 percent—as a severe COVID-19 outbreak and a military conflict with Azerbaijan late in the year impacted performance, according to World Bank's latest 'Europe and Central Asia Economic Update, Spring 2021
Armenia’s health system response to COVID-19 and potential future pandemics, including hospitals’ capacity for case management and intensive care, will benefit from $7.4 million in Additional Financing for the Disease Prevention and Control Project, approved today by the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors, World Bank reported today
Armenian Deputy Prime Minister Tigran Avinyan received today a World Bank delegation led by Sylvie Bossoutrot, the Country Manager of the World Bank for Armenia , and the Local Economy and Infrastructure Development program’s team. Avinyan spoke about the priorities of Armenia’s economic development
Armenian Deputy Prime Minister Tigran Avinyan received today a World Bank delegation led by World Bank Regional Director for the South Caucasus Sebastian Molineus, Avinyan's press office reported
Armenian Economy Minister Tigran Khachatryan met with representatives of the World Bank’s Trade Promotion and Quality Infrastructure program on Tuesday and discussed with them the criteria and studies arranged yet with the previous mission
Armenian Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigoryan received today a World Bank delegation, led by the current WB Regional Director for the South Caucasus Mercy Tembon, who introduced her replacement Sebastian Molineus. Sylvie Bossoutrot, World Bank Country Manager for Armenia was also in attendance
The World Bank is preparing the Country’s Partnership Framework strategic document that defines the cooperation priorities for the next four years with Armenia
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan received yesterday a delegation headed by Deborah Wetzel, Senior Director, Governance Global Practice, at the World Bank, the press office of the prime minister reports
David Tonoyan, Armenian emergency minister, received Tuesday representatives of the World Bank’s technical assistance mission headed by Disaster Risk Management Specialist Tafadzwa Dube, the press office of the ministry reports
Armenia is one of the three leading countries in Europe and Central Asia in terms of remittances sent home by labor migrants, according to the World Bank’s latest Regional Economic Update Migration and Mobility in Europe and Central Asia
Ninety-five projects have been implemented in Armenia over the last 25 years with the assistance of the World Bank, worth $2.3 billion. Today, the bank’s credit portfolio in Armenia is $620 million, according to a statement placed on the official website of the Armenian government
