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.
