EBRD expands cooperation with Ameriabank - EUR 50 million Risk Sharing  Framework agreement signed

ArmInfo.The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is expanding its cooperation  with Ameriabank - a EUR 50 million Risk Sharing Framework agreement was signed. As noted in the EBRD press release, this Risk Sharing Framework (RSF) agreement was signed in London by Francis Malige, the   EBRD's Managing Director for Financial Institutions, and Hovhannes Toroyan, Ameriabank's CFO, on the sidelines of the EBRD's 2025 Annual Meeting and Business Forum 2025.

In other words, Ameriabank is joining the EBRD Risk Sharing  Framework. The agreement will facilitate Armenian firms' access to  finance. The EBRD will co-finance individual loans provided by  Ameriabank to eligible borrowers. These loans will support the  working capital needs of domestic businesses, help them expand their  operations and improve their climate resilience.

The RSF is one of the EBRD's core financing frameworks, dedicated to  supporting and developing local private companies. The EBRD offers  partner banks funded or unfunded risk participation mechanisms in  foreign or local currency by co-financing and guaranteeing the  partner bank's loans to eligible companies.  Ameriabank is one of the  leading providers of corporate and investment banking services in  Armenia and one of the EBRD's long-standing partner banks in the  country. Bolstering firms' competitiveness  and supporting financial  sector intermediation  through risk-sharing products are two of the  EBRD's key priorities in Armenia. The EBRD is one of the largest  institutional investors in Armenia, having invested more than ?2.5  billion in the country across 224 projects, with the majority of that  investment  going to the private sector.