ArmInfo. On August 29, the fourth dollar tranche of registered coupon bonds of Ameriabank in the amount of $ 10 million was listed on the Nasdaq OMX Armenia stock exchange and admitted to conclusion of targeted trade and repo deals. This release, like the previous ones, is included in the main list (Abond).

ArmInfo. On August 25, the first station of agricultural machinery was opened in Tsovak community of Gegharkunik region of Armenia within the framework of the program of state support for the provision of agricultural machinery in financial lease (leasing). Minister of Agriculture of Armenia Ignaty Arakelyan stated at the opening ceremony that the creation of such stations will increase the efficiency of agriculture.

ArmInfo. VTB Bank (Armenia), together with the international payment system MasterCard first in the banking market of Armenia launches Noncontact PayPass MasterCard payment cards.  The press service of the Bank told ArmInfo, by means of contactless cards MasterCard PayPass customers can very simply pay for purchases on the card via POS-terminals equipped with contactless technology.

ArmInfo. ACBA-Credit Agricole Bank on August 18 will publicly place its dollar-denominated coupon three-year bonds in the amount of $ 5 million with an annual yield of 5.5%. ArmInfo was told in the press service of the Bank that this issue contains 50,000 bonds with a face value of $ 100. Coupon payments are provided once every six months.

ArmInfo. As part of the agrarian state program subsidizing leasing granted on August 11, 82 units of agricultural machinery, including. 46 tractors. According to the press service of the RA Ministry of Agriculture, today, the state program includes universal credit companies SMC Investments and Card AgroCredit, and the leasing company ACBA Leasing, and the suppliers are 4 companies, two of which are Spetsmash LLC and Grashk Aigi . According to the source, agricultural equipment is leased in the framework of the state program of subsiding on the following conditions:  prepayment - 20%, interest rate - 2% per annum, maturity - 3-10 years, depending on the type of equipment. Under this state program, it is possible to purchase tractors of different brands, combine harvesters, balers, seeders, plows, mowers, potato-sewers, potato diggers, cultivators, trucks, sprayers and other agricultural equipment.

ArmInfo.In the first half of  the year, the banking system of Armenia sent 21.9 billion AMD to the  state treasury, which is 12.9% higher than the figure of a year ago.  Of this amount, over 89% or 19.6 billion was paid on direct taxes  (including income tax and income tax), with an annual growth of  12.6%.

ArmInfo. AMD, dollar and euro  bonds of Armswissbank were listed on NASDAQ OMX Armenia. As the press  service of the exchange told ArmInfo, these bonds entered the  secondary exchange list of Bbond and are admitted to conclusion of  targeted and repo deals. In the secondary market, Ameriabank and  ARARATBANK will act as market-makers of these securities.  

ArmInfo. Banks of Armenia having significantly increased the buffer of capital over the past year, sharply intensified lending. According to the Express-Ranking of Armenian Banks as of July 1, 2017, prepared by the Analytical Service of the Information                 Company ArmInfo, the annual growth rates of crediting accelerated from last year's 12% to the current 20% to 2.6 trillion drams.  This increased assets more significantly - by 25.3% - to 4.2 trillion drams, compared to the year before (9.1%).

ArmInfo. The initial placement of nominal coupon AMD bonds of 2 billion AMD was successfully completed on July 10 - 4 days earlier than planned. The placed bonds were purchased by both local and foreign legal entities, including Armenian banks and private investors.

ArmInfo. To activate the bond  market of Armenia, a national scale of ratings is needed. Arshinbank  Risk Management Director Artak Arzoyan expressed this opinion in an  interview with ArmInfo, explaining that local investors and borrowers  dominate the national financial market, and an internal credit rating  is required for the issuance of debt securities of certain  categories.

ArmInfo. ACBA-Credit Agricole Bank  plans to enter the bond market of Armenia with the medium-term USD  tranche within the next 2 months. As Stepan Zakinyan, Deputy Chief  Executive Officer for the financial part of ACBA-Credit Agricole  Bank, told ArmInfo correspondent, the circulation period of the USD  tranche will be 2.5 years. "This will be an experimental release,  which will enable us to understand the market reaction and investors'  appetites," he said.

ArmInfo. Armenia's bond market  is well organized, and the environment created by regulators helps  attract investors. This opinion was voiced by the chief treasurer of  the Black Sea Trade and Development Bank (BSTDB) Christopher Best on  June 29 during a press conference timed to the placement of the first  AMD BSTDB bond issue, underwriters and market makers of which were  ARARATBANK and Future Capital Market".

ArmInfo. From June 29 to September 15, Anelik Bank intends to place the 4th tranche of its USD-denominated bonds in the amount of $ 5 million. As ArmInfo explained to the press service of the Bank, in the framework of this issue 50 thousand registered non-documentary coupon bonds with a par value of $ 100, yield on the coupon of 5.75%, with a maturity of 2 years, with the frequency of coupon payments every six months.

ArmInfo. State services in Armenia will be available also through "Araratbank". The corresponding draft decision was approved at a meeting of the Armenian government on June 23.

ArmInfo. Armswissbank, after successfully issuing three tranches of USD bonds, brought AMD securities to the market. The placement of AMD bonds as well as in the case of USD bonds turned out to be successful - applications for the purchase of only 2 billion were presented within the first hour of the start of the open subscription.

ArmInfo.Recently, the EBRD  approved 2 credit programs for $ 10 million for Armenian banks to  promote small and medium-sized businesses for women entrepreneurs.  This was reported to the journalists on June 16 at the fields of the  General Meeting of Shareholders of Araratbank said acting Head of the  Armenian office of the EBRD Angela Sachs.

ArmInfo. In the next three years ARARATBANK will become a classical, digital and investment bank. On June 16, executive  director of ARARATBANK  Ashot Osipyan told about this way of the bank's development at the annual shareholders' meeting. He informed that the bank has a new NeoBank strategic development program, which will be held under the slogan .

ArmInfo. ARARATBANK closed 2016 with a net profit of 1.1bln AMD, providing dynamic of annual growth for 15.7%, Ararat Bank executive director Ashot Osipyan stated during the annual meeting of shareholders on June 16.

ArmInfo. Starting from Juny 13,  2017, USD denomintaed coupon bonds issued by "ANELIK BANK" CJSC will  be listed on NASDAQ OMX Armenia and included in the bonds main Abond  list.  According to the exchange press service, listed securities  comprise 50,000 coupon bonds with nominal value of USD 100, coupon  rate of 6.25% and maturity period of 2 years. The bonds (ISIN -  AMANLBB22ER2) will be traded under ANLBB2 ticker symbol and will be  allowed to manual and REPO trading as well. 

ArmInfo. The customer base of Armenia's banking system totaled 2,343,225 individuals and 77,956 legal entities by April 2017. According to the Central Bank's data provided by the National Statistical Service of Armenia, a total of 2,421,181 customers had 4,355,612 accounts with Armenian banks, of which 4,196,171 were physical accounts and 159,441 were accounts of legal entities.