{"id":278517,"date":"2026-08-25T16:42:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T12:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/?p=278517"},"modified":"2026-08-25T16:42:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T12:42:31","slug":"the-investment-portfolio-of-armenian-banks-in-the-second-quarter-amounted-to-1-93-trillion-drams-a-decline-of-9-5-year-to-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2026\/08\/25\/278517\/","title":{"rendered":"The investment portfolio of Armenian banks in the second quarter amounted to 1.93 trillion drams, a decline of 9.5% year-to-date"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

YEREVAN, August 25. \/ARKA\/. <\/strong>The total investment portfolio of commercial banks in Armenia at the end of June 2026 amounted to 1,933,341,220 thousand drams, a decrease of 202.38 billion drams, or 9.48%, year-to-date. This is according to the ARKA news agency’s bulletin “Performance Indicators of Armenian Banks.” Q2 2026.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the second quarter alone, the banks’ investment portfolio decreased by 280.76 billion drams, or 12.68%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bulk of the portfolio\u20141.26 trillion drams, or 65.17%\u2014was made up of investments held to maturity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The volume of investments held for sale reached 624.15 billion drams, accounting for 32.28%. Financial investments for commercial purposes accounted for 38.72 billion drams, or 2% of the total portfolio, while investments in the authorized capital of controlled entities accounted for 10.51 billion drams, or 0.54%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ardshinbank had the largest investment portfolio at the end of June, at 306.45 billion drams. Since the beginning of the year, this figure has decreased by 29.86%, and in the second quarter, by 40.4%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AMIO Bank ranked second in terms of investment portfolio size with a figure of 259.92 billion drams, up 7.2% year-to-date and down 4.6% quarter-on-quarter. It was followed by Ameriabank with 210.07 billion drams (down 17.26% year-to-date and 0.84% \u200b\u200bquarter-on-quarter), Inecobank with 175.1 billion drams (down 4.55% year-to-date and 6.64% quarter-on-quarter), and ArmSwissBank with 172.08 billion drams (down 9.75% year-to-date and 4.38% quarter-on-quarter).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fast Bank demonstrated the largest investment portfolio growth in the second quarter, up 70.53% to 38.76 billion drams. Armeconombank’s figure increased by 5.51%, to 103.16 billion drams, while Unibank’s investment portfolio increased by 5.39%, to 26.43 billion drams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the beginning of the year, the most significant growth was recorded by Byblos Bank Armenia (37.64%), Fast Bank (37.51%), and Armeconombank (15.4%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The most significant decrease in the investment portfolio since the beginning of the year was recorded by Ardshinbank (29.86%), Converse Bank (20.16%), Ameriabank (17.26%), Evocabank (14.37%), and IDBank (13.85%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As of June 30, 2026, there were 17 commercial banks operating in Armenia. The average investment portfolio of one bank was 113.73 billion drams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The total investment portfolio of commercial banks in Armenia at the end of June 2026 amounted to 1,933,341,220 thousand drams, a decrease of 202.38 billion drams, or 9.48%, year-to-date. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":276806,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[9214,9216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-banks-en-en","category-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t