{"id":250500,"date":"2022-08-26T11:59:30","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T11:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2022\/08\/26\/250500\/"},"modified":"2022-08-26T11:59:30","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T11:59:30","slug":"armenian-banks-total-capital-up-23-to-about-1-1-trillion-drams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2022\/08\/26\/250500\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenian banks&#8217; total capital up 23% to about 1.1 trillion drams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>YEREVAN, August 26. \/ARKA\/. <\/strong>The total capital of 17 Armenia-based commercial banks grew by 23% or 213 billion drams in the first half of 2022 to about 1.14 trillion\u00a0drams, Seyran Sargsyan, the executive director of the Union of Banks of Armenia told a press conference today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said if compared with 2015-16, the total capital of the banks has almost doubled. &#8216;This is a significant and dramatic growth in terms of capital,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Compared to late March this year, the total capital of the banks increased by 40 billion drams or 3.6%, while the banks&#8217; assets increased by 193 billion drams or 2.74% to 7.24 trillion drams. Compared to late March 2022, the assets increased &nbsp;by 70.6bln drams or 0.98%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of June 30, 2022, the total amount of the banks&#8217; lending totaled 3.99 trillion drams, an increase of 0.7% or 28 billion drams. However, compared to late March this year&nbsp; they were down by 127 billion drams or 3.1%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deposits in the first half of the year increased &nbsp;by 1.2%, or 47 billion drams, to about 4.1 trillion drams. In comparison with the end of the first quarter of 2022, they were up &nbsp;2.2% or 89 billion drams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the first half of 2022, the banks earned &nbsp;some 111 billion drams in profit . All the banks run as many as &nbsp;537 branches in the country employing 12,800 people. The &nbsp;number of bank accounts stands now at &nbsp;6.9 million ($1 &#8211; 404.94 drams). -0-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The total capital of 17 Armenia-based commercial banks grew by 23% or 213 billion drams in the first half of 2022 to about 1.14 trillion\u00a0drams, Seyran Sargsyan, the executive director of the Union of Banks of Armenia told a press conference today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":157087,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[9214,9216],"tags":[466],"class_list":{"0":"post-250500","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-466"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250500","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=250500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}