{"id":119481,"date":"2019-02-19T14:27:45","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T14:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2019\/02\/19\/248278\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T13:36:41","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:36:41","slug":"armenia-based-commercial-banks-investments-in-securities-increased-by-13-in-2018-to-603-4-billion-drams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2019\/02\/19\/119481\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenia-based commercial banks\u2019 investments in securities increased by 13% in 2018 to 603.4 billion drams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>YEREVAN, February 19. \/ARKA\/. <\/strong>Armenia-based commercial banks\u2019 investments in securities increased by 13% in 2018 to 603.4 billion drams, according to ARKA news agency\u2019s quarterly financial and economic bulletin \u201cBanks of Armenia\u201d for the 4th quarter of last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Investments in securities accounted for 12.16% of the banks\u2019 total assets. It should be noted that about 82.8% of banks&#8217; investments in securities-500.1 billion drams- were investments in government bonds.<br>\nThe top five banks by size of investments in securities were ArmSwissbank, Ameriabank, Ardshinbank, Armbusinessbank and Araratbank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ArmSwissbank\u2019s investments in securities amounted to 57.8% of its total assets or 135.8 billion drams (an increase of 64.8% from the previous year). In addition to the classic banking services, ArmSwissbank also provides investment services, often acting as an underwriter or market maker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ameriabank\u2019s investments in securities amounted to 56.9 billion drams (an increase of 1.24%); those by Ardshinbank grew by 28.8% to 41.5 billion drams. Armbusinessbank&#8217;s investments stood at 35.8 billion drams (a decrease of 12. 6%) and those by Araratbank \u2013 at 35.6 billion. drams (an increase of 13.3%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The combined assets of commercial banks at the end of 2018 stood at 4.963.5 trillion drams (an increase of 14%). Today, there are 17 commercial banks operating in Armenia. ($ 1 &#8211; AMD 487.51). -0-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeffArmenia-based commercial banks\u2019 investments in securities increased by 13% in 2018 to 603.4 billion drams<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":157232,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[9214,9216],"tags":[15837,12163,15458,331],"class_list":{"0":"post-119481","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-investments-2","12":"tag-331"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119481","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=119481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}