{"id":66964,"date":"2013-11-29T15:46:11","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T15:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2013\/11\/29\/239863\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T13:08:35","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:08:35","slug":"survey-over-60-of-armenian-citizens-trust-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2013\/11\/29\/66964\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey: over 60% of Armenian citizens trust banks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YEREVAN, November 29. \/ARKA\/.<\/strong> Some 64% of Armenian citizens trust banks, the Armenian Marketing Association, Gallup International Association\u2019s office in Armenia, said after surveying 1067 people in Yerevan and provinces.<\/p>\n<p>Some 46% of respondents said they rather trust banks, and 18% fully trust them.<\/p>\n<p>It has become clear from the results of the poll that 12% have absolutely no confidence in banks.<br \/>\nSome 24% found it difficult to answer the question.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about the degree of development of banking services in the country, 51% of respondents found them rather developed, 18% properly developed, 5% underdeveloped, 3% absolutely undeveloped and 23% found it difficult to answer the question.<\/p>\n<p>Some 21% of respondents pointed out high interest rates as banks\u2019 main fault, 16% see no faults, 15% are unhappy about queues, 8% singled out low-quality services among faults, 2% complicated procedure of lending and 2% high commissions.<\/p>\n<p>Some respondents voiced dissatisfaction at red tape (1%), inaccuracies in calculations (1%), professional incompetence of bank officers (1%), low deposit interest rates (1%) and insufficient number of ATMs (3%).<\/p>\n<p>Some 0.5% of respondents have no confidence in banks and 35% refused to answer.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about the most popular banking services, 43% pointed out payment of utility bills, 42% currency exchange, 39% money transfer reception, 31% bank card servicing, 28% loan formalization, 24% reception of salaries and scholarships, 21 money transfer sending, 6% money deposit, 6% mortgage lending, 3% extension of loans for repair and 2% car loans.<\/p>\n<p>According to the results of the survey, 68% use banking services once a month, 10% once in three months, 9% once in a week, 6% once a year, 5% once in every six months an d2% twice or thrice a week.<\/p>\n<p>Some 65% of respondents said they had one banking card, 27% two banking cards, 5% three, one percent four and another one percent five banking cards.<\/p>\n<p>Of these cardholders, 63% have ArCa cards, 40% Visa cards, 14% MasterCard, 3% other cards and 3% didn\u2019t answer.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty one banks with their 484 branches operate in Armenia now. &#8212;-0&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some 64% of Armenian citizens trust banks, the Armenian Marketing Association, Gallup International Association\u2019s office in Armenia, said after surveying 1067 people in Yerevan and provinces<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":157200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[9214,9216],"tags":[15837,12163,3456,12853],"class_list":{"0":"post-66964","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-armenia-2","10":"tag-banks","11":"tag-gallup","12":"tag-survey"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66964","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=66964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}