{"id":59944,"date":"2013-08-15T09:50:55","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T09:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2013\/08\/15\/239125\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T13:06:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:06:29","slug":"armenias-banks-invested-182-6-bln-in-government-bonds-in-q2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2013\/08\/15\/59944\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenia\u2019s banks invested 182.6 bln in government bonds in Q2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YEREVAN, August 15. \/ARKA\/.<\/strong> Armenia\u2019s banks invested nearly 182.6 billion drams in the government bonds as of the end of the second quarter of 2013, 2.5% higher from the beginning of the year, according to the banks\u2019 financial interim report<\/p>\n<p>According to an analysis by ARKA agency, share of the investments in government securities was 7.6% of total assets as compared to 7.8% in the beginning of the year.<\/p>\n<p>As of June 30 2013, the total securities portfolio fetched up nearly 188.9 billion drams, of them 96.64% were government securities.<\/p>\n<p>HSBC Bank Armenia invested 32.6 billion in securities holding the leading positions in this category. Of it, over 31.9 billion drams or 98.11% was in government bonds. At the same time 1.89% of the bank\u2019s securities portfolio or 616.7 million drams are non-government bonds. In the second quarter of 2013 the bank\u2019s interest rate return on investments in debt securities was 1.8 billion drams or 19.9% of the total interest rate return.<\/p>\n<p>HSBC Bank Armenia is followed by Ardshininvestbank (22.3 billion drams). It invested 98.21% in government bonds, and 1.79% in non-government bonds. The interest rate return on the investments in debt securities was nearly 1.1 billion drams or 8.8% of the total interest rate return.<\/p>\n<p>Another top bank in this category is Armbusinessbank with 21 billion drams (99.74% \u2013 government bonds, and 0.26%- non-government bonds).<\/p>\n<p>As of 30 June 2013 there were 21 banks with 478 branches in Armenia. ($1 \u2013 406.94 drams).\u20130\u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armenia\u2019s banks invested nearly 182.6 billion drams in the government bonds as of the end of the second quarter of 2013, 2.5% higher from the beginning of the year, according to the banks\u2019 financial interim report<\/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":[15837,12163,13081,331],"class_list":{"0":"post-59944","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-government-bonds","11":"tag-331"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59944","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=59944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}