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Thursday, January 16 2020, 14:53
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Tuesday, January 14 2020, 19:24
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Tuesday, December 10 2019, 21:04
ArmInfo. By November 2019, the banking system of Armenia even more accelerated the annual growth in retail lending - up to 36.3%, which was largely due to the high activity of consumer lending, including mortgages, whose share reached 27.5%, thanks to an increase of almost 40 % According to the Central Bank of Armenia, from 2018 to November, the current growth rate of consumer lending from 11.1% jumped to 30.9%. |
Friday, December 6 2019, 21:54
ArmInfo. The total loan portfolio of Armenian banks as of November 1, 2019 exceeded 3.1 trillion drams ($ 6.5 billion), slowing annual growth from 21% to 15%. At the same time, the volume of dram loans reached 1.5 trillion drams ($ 3.2 billion), and foreign currency loans -1.6 trillion drams ($ 3.3 billion). According to the Central Bank of the Republic of Armenia, in the structure of the loan portfolio, a slowdown in annual growth was observed both in terms of the dram component and the currency component. Nevertheless, dram loans showed a high growth of 32.1% (against 40.5% a year earlier), while foreign currency growth turned out to be meager - 2.1% (against 9.6% a year earlier). |
Tuesday, December 3 2019, 20:25
ArmInfo. "Agency of Rating Marketing Information" (ArmInfo IC) published and provided its subscribers with a jubilee, hundredth, informational and analytical quarterly newsletter "Financial Ratings of Armenian Banks". "This is commensurate with ArmInfo's 25 years of presence in the country's financial analytics market," ArmInfo CEO Emmanuil Mkrtchyan said. |
Thursday, November 28 2019, 20:17
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Thursday, November 28 2019, 16:51
ArmInfo. The y-o-y growth of net profit of Armenian banks for the 9 months of 2019 slowed down sharply from 81.5% to 17.7%, amounting to 60.9 billion drams or $ 128 million. This slightly improved efficiency ratios against the background of a meager slowdown in asset growth from 15% to 14% and total capital from 10% to 9.4%. |
Wednesday, August 21 2019, 20:15
ArmInfo.. Overdue loans in the banking system of Armenia, despite the slowdown, still exceed 9% of the loan portfolio. According to the Financial Rating of the Banks of Armenia as of June 30, 2019 prepared by ArmInfo IC, their volume in the reporting period increased by 5% per annum, against the 14% growth a year earlier. |
Thursday, June 20 2019, 19:01
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Wednesday, May 29 2019, 20:45
ArmInfo.Against the background of political turbulence associated with the "velvet revolution" in April-May 2018, the Armenian banking system demonstrated high reliability, maintaining a previously reached sufficient level of liquidity, strong capitalization, healthy loan portfolio, substantial deposit base and moderate profitability, this is stated in the regular industry research of Armenia's banking system prepared by experts of AmRating national rating agency in cooperation with European Rating-Agentur Expert RA GmbH ( https://raexpert.eu/files/Industry_report_Armenia_Banks_27.05.2019.pdf ) As it is noted in the report, the new economic policy of the government, headed by the leader of the "velvet revolution" and Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, differs in many ways from the former highly corrupt system, which was built up with the existence of the so-called "shadow economy". The new policy's significant adjustments of ingrained economic life affected some spheres of the economy and, as a result, influenced to some extent macroeconomic indicators. |
Monday, March 11 2019, 19:18
ArmInfo. In the banking system of Armenia, the growth rates of retail lending are still significantly higher than the growth rates of corporate. According to the Financial Rating of Banks of Armenia, prepared by the ArmInfo Investment Company, credit growth of individuals accelerated in 2018 from 16.7% to 31.5%, and the lending dynamics of legal entities came out of minus 1% to ascending 8.8%. |
Saturday, March 9 2019, 13:08
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Friday, February 15 2019, 16:45
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Monday, December 3 2018, 18:50
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Wednesday, November 14 2018, 18:03
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Tuesday, August 21 2018, 14:56
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Friday, August 17 2018, 17:09
ArmInfo.The level of non-performing loans (NPL) increased by 14% over year in the banking system of Armenia. This is evidenced by the data of the ''Financial ratings of commercial banks of Armenia'' analytical report prepared by the Agency of Rating Marketing Information (ArmInfo) at the end of the first half of 2018. |
Tuesday, May 8 2018, 16:04
ArmInfo. In 2017 the Armenian banking sector dynamics were characterized by a high level of excess liquidity due to finalization of the consolidation process, connected with the need to comply with the new normative standard of total capital. The sector was also characterized by the slowing loan and deposit portfolios' growth rates, insignificant reduction in the level of capital adequacy, improvement in the asset quality and profitability figures. |