{"id":97917,"date":"2016-05-13T13:43:01","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T13:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2016\/05\/13\/244646\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T13:23:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:23:38","slug":"armenian-banks-lending-to-private-sector-grows-by-0-2-in-quarter-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2016\/05\/13\/97917\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenian banks\u2019 lending to private sector grows by 0.2% in quarter one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YEREVAN, May 13. \/ARKA\/.<\/strong> In the first quarter of 2016 lending to private companies by Armenia-based banks grew by 0.2% from the beginning of the year to 1.346.6 trillion drams, according to ARKA news agency\u2019s financial and economic bulletin &#8220;Banks of Armenia&#8221; for the first quarter of 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The top five banks by size of lending to private companies were Ameriabank, Ardshinbank, HSBC Bank Armenia, Armbusinessbank and VTB Bank (Armenia), which accounted for 65.8% or 885.5 billion drams of the total lending to this sector of economy.<\/p>\n<p>With 274.9 billion drams Ameriabank accounted for 20.4% of the total lending to private companies, a 4.1% rise from the beginning of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Ardshinbank\u2019s\u00a0 lending totaled 221.6 billion drams, a growth of 12.5%;\u00a0 HSBC Bank Armenia\u2019s lending declined by 1.2% to\u00a0 142.3 billion drams;\u00a0 Armbusinessbank\u2019s lending stood at 139.7 billion drams, a growth of\u00a0 1.3% and that of\u00a0 VTB Bank (Armenia) fell by 3.9% to 107.1 billion drams.<\/p>\n<p>According to ARKA, the amount of lending to individuals in the reporting period amounted to 738.6 billion. drams against 733.3 billion drams on January 1, 2016. At the same time, the total volume of loans granted by Armenian banks were worth 2.171.9 trillion drams, having decreased by 0.5%. ($ 1 &#8211; 479.45 drams). -0-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the first quarter of 2016 lending to private companies by Armenia-based banks grew by 0.2% from the beginning of the year to 1.346.6 trillion drams<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":174236,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[9214,9216],"tags":[15837,12163,12294],"class_list":{"0":"post-97917","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-loan"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97917","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=97917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}