{"id":249731,"date":"2021-03-16T15:46:53","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T15:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2021\/03\/16\/249731\/"},"modified":"2021-03-16T15:46:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T15:46:53","slug":"lending-by-armenian-banks-in-early-2021-is-up-11-percent-central-bank-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2021\/03\/16\/249731\/","title":{"rendered":"Lending by Armenian banks in early 2021 is up 11 percent, central bank says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>YEREVAN, March 16. \/ARKA\/<\/strong>. Lending volumes have grown in Armenia in early 2021, Chairman of the Central Bank of Armenia Martin Galstyan said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to him, lending in February 2021 compared to February 2020 grew by 11% or&nbsp;&nbsp;about 375 billion drams.&nbsp;&nbsp;He noted also that lending to legal entities increased by 11.3%, and to individuals by 9.4%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Galstyan said one of the messages conveyed to him by commercial bank executives is that the government-designed measures to offset the consequences of the coronavirus crisis were essential for growth of their lending portfolios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In total, the Armenian government approved 25 programs to counter the socio-economic consequences of the coronavirus crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some were meant to support agriculture, tourism, SMEs,&nbsp;&nbsp;microbusiness, IT and other industries, others were aimed at providing&nbsp;&nbsp;social support for various groups of the population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of the programs have already been completed, some have been expanded, while&nbsp;&nbsp;the government is discussing new opportunities for assistance to citizens. ($ 1 &#8211; 527.69 drams). -0-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lending volumes have grown in Armenia in early 2021, Chairman of the Central Bank of Armenia Martin Galstyan said on Tuesday<\/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":[12139,9216],"tags":[15837,12163,12727,12816],"class_list":{"0":"post-249731","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy-en","8":"category-news","9":"tag-armenia-2","10":"tag-banks","11":"tag-lending","12":"tag-sector"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249731","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=249731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249731\/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=249731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}