{"id":44169,"date":"2012-11-22T10:44:12","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T10:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2012\/11\/22\/236929\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T13:00:56","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:00:56","slug":"armenian-prime-minister-congratulates-bank-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2012\/11\/22\/44169\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Prime-Minister congratulates bank employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YEREVAN, November 22. \/ARKA\/. <\/strong>Armenian Prime-Minister Tigran Sargsyan congratulated bank employees on their professional holiday, Bank Employee Day, Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime-Minister reminded that on November 23, 1993, Armenian national currency, dram, was introduced, and a decision was made to celebrate the holiday every year.<\/p>\n<p>Armenian dram was put into circulation at a rate of 14.5drams per US dollar. After turning to floating rate, the exchange rate shot up and reached about 75drams per dollar by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Armenia keeps following the floating rate policy today; dram versus dollar rate is 407.17drams per USD as of November 22, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>In its very beginning Armenian banking system was one of the leaders in the world in terms of number of banks per million residents: there were over 60 local and more than 15 foreign banks in the country at the time. Today there are 21 banks with 458 branches operating in Armenia.\u20130&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armenian Prime-Minister Tigran Sargsyan congratulated bank employees on their professional holiday, Bank Employee Day, Thursday<\/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":[15837,15418,12345,12624,319],"class_list":{"0":"post-44169","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-bank-en-2","10":"tag-dram","11":"tag-premier","12":"tag-319"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44169","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=44169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}