{"id":107257,"date":"2017-04-26T14:41:47","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T14:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2017\/04\/26\/246224\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T13:29:06","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:29:06","slug":"acba-credit-agricole-bank-offers-green-loans-to-smes-to-raise-their-energy-efficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2017\/04\/26\/107257\/","title":{"rendered":"ACBA-CREDIT AGRICOLE BANK offers green loans to SMEs to raise their energy efficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YEREVAN, April 26. \/ARKA\/.<\/strong> As part of a joint program \u2018Energy Efficiency for SMEs\u2019 implemented with the German KfW Bank, ACBA-CREDIT AGRICOLE BANK has unveiled a new loan product designed for small and medium-sized businesses to improve their energy efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>According to a bank\u2019s press release, the loans called &#8220;GREEN&#8221; are provided in the amount of up to 500 million drams at an interest rate 10.9% and repayment term of 2-5 years. Details about the loan can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acba.am\/hy\/business\/get-a-loan\/energo-saving-loans\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The bank said also if necessary, it will carry out free energy audit and consulting to ensure maximum effectiveness of investments. At the same time, at least 70% of the loan should be used for ensuring energy efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>ACBA was established in 1996 as part of EU\u2019s TACIS program. As a result of a long-term and mutually beneficial cooperation between ACBA Bank and the French Credit Agricole the latter became the biggest shareholder of ACBA in 2006, September. ACBA was restructured, becoming a closed joint stock company and was renamed ACBA CREDIT AGRICOLE BANK. -0-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of a joint program \u2018Energy Efficiency for SMEs\u2019 implemented with the German KfW Bank, ACBA-CREDIT AGRICOLE BANK has unveiled a new loan product designed for small and medium-sized businesses to improve their energy efficiency<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":181589,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[9214,9216],"tags":[15909,14252,13586,15427],"class_list":{"0":"post-107257","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-acba-credit-agricole-bank-2","10":"tag-green-loans","11":"tag-offers","12":"tag-sme-2"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107257","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=107257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}