{"id":135236,"date":"2021-09-07T12:32:43","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T12:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2021\/09\/07\/249972\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T13:45:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:45:21","slug":"armenias-ministry-of-finance-edb-and-acra-sign-memorandum-of-understanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2021\/09\/07\/135236\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenia\u2019s Ministry of Finance, EDB and ACRA sign Memorandum of Understanding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>YEREVAN, September 7. \/ARKA\/. <\/strong>Armenia\u2019s Ministry of Finance, the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) and the Russian Analytical Credit Rating Agency (ACRA) signed today in Yerevan a Memorandum of Understanding.<br>The Armenian Ministry of Finance said under the memorandum ACRA will assign a sovereign credit rating to the Republic of Armenia, ensure the availability of rating services, including assessing the credit rating of companies-residents of the Armenian financial market. ACRA will also assign credit ratings to bonds issued in Armenia.<br>Armenian Finance Minister Tigran Khachatryan expressed readiness to deepen cooperation with the EDB.<br>The Chairman of the Board of the EDB Nikolay Podguzov said Armenia and the EDB have successfully implemented a string of joint projects and initiatives. He welcomed the steps taken by the Armenian government to improve the business environment and encourage private investment.<br>In July, the Eurasian Development Bank said it was going to increase its Armenian portfolio to $500 million.<br>The Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) comprises Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan. Its authorized capital is US $7 billion.<br>Russian rating agency ACRA established in 2015 assigns national scale credit ratings to financial institutions, corporate sector companies, regional and municipal authorities of the Russian Federation and their financial instruments. -0-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armenia\u2019s Ministry of Finance, the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) and the Russian Analytical Credit Rating Agency (ACRA) signed today in Yerevan a Memorandum of Understanding<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":197864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[9214,9216],"tags":[15561,15837,12579,14087,12781,956],"class_list":{"0":"post-135236","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-acra-3","10":"tag-armenia-2","11":"tag-edb","12":"tag-memorandum","13":"tag-ministry-of-finance","14":"tag-956"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135236","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=135236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}