{"id":90726,"date":"2015-08-24T11:41:59","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T11:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2015\/08\/24\/243410\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T13:19:39","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:19:39","slug":"areximbank-gazprombank-group-to-increase-lending-to-sme-by-1-billion-drams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2015\/08\/24\/90726\/","title":{"rendered":"Areximbank-Gazprombank Group to increase lending to SME by 1 billion drams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YEREVAN, August 24. \/ARKA\/.<\/strong> Areximbank-Gazprombank Group is planning to increase its small and midsized enterprise (SME) financing by another million drams, the bank\u2019s press office reported.<\/p>\n<p>Lending to SME is a promising direction, and the bank will be actively involved in it, the report says.<\/p>\n<p>In the previous years, the bank was in the top three list of banks lending to SME under a central bank refinancing program. The increasing of the SME financing is part of Areximbank\u2019s strategic development for the period till 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The bank\u2019s press office also said that lending to SME will be implemented from both own funds and international loans.<\/p>\n<p>Today Areximbank is extending loans at very favorable conditions \u2013 the amount of the loan is up to 50 million drams, interest rate is 14% per annum, loan term is 7 years.<\/p>\n<p>Areximbank-Gazprombank Group (former Areximbank, renamed on June 12, 2009) was established in August 1998 for supporting entrepreneurship and serving financial flows between Russia and Armenia.<\/p>\n<p>The loan portfolio of Areximbank-Gazprombank Group was about 66 billion drams as of the second quarter, a reduction of 5.4% since the beginning of the year. ($1 \u2013 477.7 drams). \u20130&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Areximbank-Gazprombank Group is planning to increase its small and midsized enterprise (SME) financing by another million drams, the bank\u2019s press office reported<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":159739,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[9214,9216],"tags":[12640,15837,15427],"class_list":{"0":"post-90726","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-areximbank-gazprombank-group","10":"tag-armenia-2","11":"tag-sme-2"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90726","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=90726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}