{"id":109861,"date":"2017-09-13T11:08:30","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T11:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2017\/09\/13\/246693\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T13:30:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:30:47","slug":"interest-rates-on-loans-in-armenia-decreased-by-approximately-4-5-in-recent-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2017\/09\/13\/109861\/","title":{"rendered":"Interest rates on loans in Armenia decreased by approximately 4-5% in recent years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YEREVAN, September 13. \/ARKA\/.<\/strong> Interest rates on loans in Armenia have decreased by approximately 4-5% in recent years, the deputy chairman of the Central Bank Nerses Yeritsyan told the parliament today.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Central Bank, the interest rates on deposits in Armenian drams maturing in 12 months were 8.8% in July 2017, down from 12.3% in July 2016 and 14.4% in July 2015. The average interest rate on loans in drams was 13.69%, down from 17.5% in July 2016 and 18.8% in July 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Yeritsyan noted that the drop was prompted by the decisions of the central bank to cut the refinancing rate.<br \/>\nHe said the refinancing rate has been at 6% for already one year. The rate has been gradually reduced since 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The Central Bank suspended monetary policy easing in March this year. In 2016 alone, the refinancing rate was lowered 8 times. -0-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interest rates on loans in Armenia have decreased by approximately 4-5% in recent years, the deputy chairman of the Central Bank Nerses Yeritsyan told the parliament today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":165098,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[9214,9216],"tags":[15837,12444,14533,12892],"class_list":{"0":"post-109861","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-rates","11":"tag-recent","12":"tag-interests"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109861","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=109861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}