{"id":36837,"date":"2012-05-11T11:10:19","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T11:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2012\/05\/11\/235496\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T12:57:12","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T12:57:12","slug":"total-amount-of-armenian-banks-lending-surged-by-5-6-in-the-first-quarter-to-more-than-1-366-1-trillion-drams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2012\/05\/11\/36837\/","title":{"rendered":"Total amount of armenian banks\u2019 lending surged by 5.6% in the first quarter to more than 1.366.1 trillion drams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YEREVAN, May 11. \/ARKA\/<\/strong>. The total amount of Armenian banks\u2019 lending, including deposits, factoring and leasing, surged by 5.6% in the first quarter of this year to more than 1.366.1 trillion drams, according to a Central Bank review of the banks\u2019 performance in the first three months of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The lending to mining industry saw a dramatic rise of almost 88 percent reaching 51 billion drams. Consumer loans were said to have risen\u00a0 by 9.9% to 238.9 billion drams and the amount of lending chandelled into agriculture increased by 9% to 87.9 billion drams.<\/p>\n<p>The lending to other sectors increased by 8.5% to 48.9 billion drams. The amount of trade loans upped by 8.1% to 298 billion drams; lending to culture sector rose by\u00a0 8% to 4.9 billion drams and lending to transport and communications sector also climbed by 8% to 8.1 billion drams.<\/p>\n<p>The lending to the health sector also increased by 5.3% to 5.4 billion drams, and the volume of credits provided to manufacturing industry rose by 2% to 154.5 billion drams. The mortgage lending went up by 1.9% to 112.4 billion drams. Lending to trade accounted for 21.8% of the total portfolio, processing industry accounted for 20.5%, consumer\u00a0 and mortgage loans stood\u00a0 at 17.5% and 8.2% respectively. There are 21 commercial banks in Armenia which operate 444 branches. ($1 &#8211; 393.07 drams). -0 &#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The total amount of Armenian banks\u2019 lending, including deposits, factoring and leasing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[9214,9216],"tags":[15837,12163,319],"class_list":{"0":"post-36837","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-banks-en-en","7":"category-news","8":"tag-armenia-2","9":"tag-banks","10":"tag-319"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36837","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=36837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}