Wednesday, September 19 2018, 18:02
ArmInfo. In Armenia, the number of plastic cards increased by 16% per annum to July 1, 2018, to 1.851 million units, against the decline of 9% a year earlier. Adequately, the annual growth in the total volume of plastic transactions sharply accelerated from 7.2% in the first half of 2017 to 23% in the first half of 2018, exceeding 863.5 billion drams. This is evidenced by the data of the Central Bank of Armenia.
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Friday, August 31 2018, 13:18
ArmInfo. Since March 2019, in the Ararat, Armavir and Shirak regions of Armenia, a pilot agro-insurance program has started, risks of hail and frosts will be insured. This was announced on August 31 by Armenian Minister of Agriculture Artur Khachatryan.
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Tuesday, August 21 2018, 14:56
ArmInfo. On the threshold of launching agricultural risk insurance in Armenia, y-o-y growth of banks' lending to the agricultural sector accelerated dramatically
from 0.9% to 7.4% by July 1, 2018.
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Wednesday, August 1 2018, 18:34
ArmInfo.The Armenian banking system sent 27.6 billion drams to the state treasury in the first half of 2018, which is 26% higher than the figure of a year ago. Of
this amount, over 87.3% or 24.1 billion drams was paid on direct
taxes (incl. tax on profits and income tax), with an annual growth of
40.6%. The top five banks of taxpayers - Ameriabank, ACBA-Credit
Agricole Bank, INECOBANK, Ardshinbank and VTB Bank (Armenia), sent to
the state budget in the first half of 2018 a total of 15.3 billion
drams (annual growth of 34.2%), of which 14 billion drams - on direct
taxes (annual growth of 33.3%). According to the RA State Revenue
Committee, in the first hundred of the largest taxpayers of Armenia
in the first half of 2018, out of 17 operating banks, 13 as many as a
year ago fell.
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Wednesday, June 20 2018, 19:21
ArmInfo.The portfolio of the program of subsidizing the interest rates of agrocredits in the processing sector of Armenia in 2018 was 18 billion drams. As the RA Ministry of Agriculture press-service informs, the maximum loan amount per one borrower reaches 1 billion AMD.
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Wednesday, June 6 2018, 14:19
ArmInfo. The customer base of the Armenian banking system totaled 2 446 724
individuals and 80 182 legal entities as of April 1, 2018. According
to the Central Bank, provided by the National Statistical Service of
Armenia, a total of 2,526,906 customers had in the Armenian banks
4,703,539 accounts, of which 4,537,222 - physical accounts and 166
317 - accounts of legal entities.
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Tuesday, May 15 2018, 17:09
ArmInfo. In Armenia, the number of plastic cards increased in the first quarter of 2018 at 14.9% per annum - up to 1.785 million units, against the decline of 10.8% a year earlier. Adequately, the annual growth in the total volume of plastic transactions from 0.8% in the first quarter of 2017 to 38.6% in the first quarter of 2018 was dramatically accelerated, making 440.6 bln AMD. This is evidenced by the data of the Central Bank of Armenia.
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Friday, March 2 2018, 19:59
ArmInfo. In the banking system of Armenia, the concentration of assets among the top five leaders in this indicator increased in 2012-2017 from 46.5% to 55.2%. This amount of assets is distributed between Ameriabank, Armbusinessbank, Ardshinbank, ACBA-Credit Agricole Bank and INECOBANK. According to the Financial Rating of the Armenian Banks as of January 1, 2018, prepared by the Information Company ArmInfo, TOP-5 for credit investments includes the same banks with a total share in the total market value of 59.1% of the total loan portfolio. In 2012, the share of the leading five is 47.1%.
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Friday, March 2 2018, 17:53
ArmInfo. The share of foreign capital in the total authorized capital of Armenian banks decreased from 2014 to 2017 from 74.6% to 61.8%. During this period, four participants emerged from the banking market, of which three were "daughters" of foreign banks. This is the German ProCredit Bank, Kazakhstan's BTA and Russian Gazprombank.
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Friday, March 2 2018, 13:49
ArmInfo. "INECOBANK" CJSC became a member of the securities settlement system of the Central Depository of Armenia (CDA). As reported to ArmInfo in the press service of NasdaqOMX Armenia, this took place on February 28. Thus, the Bank has been assigned the status of a depository system account operator.
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Tuesday, February 27 2018, 18:31
ArmInfo. Ardshinbank, Armbusinessbank and UCC "Development and Investment Corporation of Armenia" (DICA, formerly referred to as UCC "Investments") have joined the state program of subsidizing interest rates on agrocredits. ArmInfo was informed about this in the press service of the RA Ministry of Agriculture.
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Wednesday, February 21 2018, 16:17
ArmInfo."The success of the bank is continuous: due to the right strategy and its careful implementation, we have improvements almost in all positions. The most important achievement, of course, is the high level of profit. AMD 7 bln net profit ensured the first position by ROE in the system" said Chief Financial Officer Hayk Voskanyan.
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Tuesday, February 20 2018, 17:46
ArmInfo. In Armenia, against the background of a fall in property prices, the mortgage is gaining momentum. According to the Financial Rating of the Armenian Banks prepared by IC ArmInfo, parallel to this, the volume of bank mortgage lending came out of the 1.5% decline by 14.4%, to 215.2 billion drams or $ 444.5 million, which was accompanied by a decrease in mortgage rates loans for 2017 from 12.2% to 10.6% on average. Meanwhile, over the past year the average market value of housing has decreased by 2.8% (against growth of 0.6% in 2016).
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Friday, February 16 2018, 19:39
ArmInfo. In Armenia, the number of plastic cards increased by 9.2% in 2017 to 1.715 million units, against the decline of 9.2% a year earlier. Adequately this has been improved by the trend of the total volume of plastic transactions with the exit from the 2.1% decline in 2016 by 11.8% growth in 2017 - to 1.6 trillion AMD. Central Bank's data reads.
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Wednesday, February 14 2018, 15:04
ArmInfo. On February 7, memorandums were signed with this purpose with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Areas Economic Development Programmes Implementation Unit.
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Friday, February 9 2018, 19:02
ArmInfo. In 2017, the Armenian banking system sent 40.1 billion AMD of taxes to the state treasury, which is 16.6% higher than the figure of a year ago. Of this amount, over 89% or 35.7 billion AMD was paid on direct taxes (including income tax and income tax), with an annual growth of 18.6%.
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Thursday, February 8 2018, 17:21
ArmInfo. Converse Bank proceeds to subsidized agroloaning. The Memorandum of Cooperation within the framework of the program of subsidizing interest rates on loans for the laying of intensive fruit-and-berry gardens processed using advanced technologies and for the installation of drip irrigation systems and anti-hail systems was signed by the Director for Corporate Business of Converse Bank Rostom Badalyan, Deputy Minister of Agriculture Ashot Harutyunyan and acting director of the office for the implementation of programs for the economic development of rural communities Vahe Harutyunyan.
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Friday, February 2 2018, 19:04
ArmInfo. Deputy Minister of Agriculture Ashot Harutyunyan, Ph.D. Director of the Office for the Implementation of the Agricultural Development Program Vahe Harutyunyan, Chief Executive Officer of the UCC "Farm Credit Armenia" Armen Gabrielyan and Deputy Chief Executive of Armswissbank Grigor Hovhannisyan signed a memorandum on cooperation in subsidizing interest rates on loans for intensive fruit and berry gardens using advanced technologies, to install drip irrigation systems and anti-hail grids.
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Friday, February 2 2018, 18:55
ArmInfo. In 2018, the loan portfolio of the pilot program for companies engaged in processing fruit and vegetable crops and grapes will be about 18 billion AMD, and the maximum loan amount per one borrower is 1 billion AMD. This was reported by the press service of the RA Ministry of Agriculture.
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Monday, January 29 2018, 13:30
ArmInfo. INECOBANK increased net profit for the year of 2017 by 36.2% to 7.02 billion AMD ($ 14.5 million), having moved up from the 3rd to the 2nd position.
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