{"id":105451,"date":"2017-02-03T12:57:17","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T12:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2017\/02\/03\/245856\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T13:27:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:27:44","slug":"armenian-banks-lending-increased-last-year-by-15-to-2-4-trillion-drams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2017\/02\/03\/105451\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenian banks\u2019 lending increased last year by 15% to 2.4 trillion drams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YEREVAN, February 3, \/ARKA\/.<\/strong> Armenian banks\u2019 lending increased last year by 15% or 316.5 billion drams ($650 million) from 2015 to 2.4 trillion drams, according to Armenia\u2019s Central Bank. Loans provided to residents only amounted to 2.116.8 trillion drams, having grown by 5.5%.<\/p>\n<p>Of this amount 64.7% were provided in foreign currency, which last year increased by only 3.5% to the equivalent of 1.370.5 trillion drams, while loans in Armenian national currency grew by 9.6% to 746.3 billion drams.<\/p>\n<p>Loans provided to corporate clients increased by 7.4% to 1.211.1 trillion drams, including 197.7 billion drams in Armenian national currency (a 10.2% growth), and the equivalent of 1.013.4 trillion drams in foreign currency (a 7% growth).<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, lending to Armenian households in 2016 fell by 0.04% only to 779.6 billion drams. The decline was due to the reduction in lending in foreign currency by 6.2% to the equivalent of 293.8 billion drams, while lending in drams increased by 4.1% to 485.7 billion drams.<\/p>\n<p>Some 319.2 billion drams worth loans were provided to non-residents, an increase of 2.7 times. To date, there are 17 commercial banks operating in Armenia. ($ 1 &#8211; 485.91 drams). -0-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armenian banks\u2019 lending increased last year by 15% or 316.5 billion drams ($650 million) from 2015 to 2.4 trillion drams, according to Armenia\u2019s Central Bank<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":160362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[9214,9216],"tags":[15837,12163,12727,505],"class_list":{"0":"post-105451","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-banks-en-en","8":"category-news","9":"tag-armenia-2","10":"tag-banks","11":"tag-lending","12":"tag-505"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}