During the interview existing practices and potential of development of sustainable finance in Armenia was discussed

You can see the full interview here: https://www.susfinforum.com/armswissbank-interview

The interview of Ara Makaryan - Deputy Director of the Lending Department, Head of the Project Financing Division, entitled " The international experience of “Green” financing stimulates the development of the sphere in Armenia" was published on Banks.am website.

You can see the full interview here: https://banks.am/en/news/interviews/21759

For the third year in a row, ARMSWISSBANK has been awarded “The Most Active Issuing Bank in Armenia” during the Annual Meeting of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). The award is based on previous year growing Trade Facilitation Programme (TFP) results. This award comes to attest the Bank’s successful and expanding effective cooperation with the EBRD in frames of its Trade Facilitation Programme. Throughout the cooperation, the initial limit set for the Bank in 2010 by the EBRD has increased almost 10-fold.

On May 19, 2021, at the Best Western Congress Hotel, Armswissbank – the Implementing Partner of the Programme - organized a seminar-discussion to present the work done in the second phase of the “Scaling up green finance practices in the Republic of Armenia” programme funded by the Green Climate Fund. The studies referred to the best international practices in the field of "Green" financing and the opportunities for its introduction in the Republic of Armenia.

We are pleased to inform that according to cooperation agreement signed between “HAYPOST” CJSC and “Armswissbank” CJSC you can make current and card account replenishments and loan / factoring repayments via more than 800 HAYPOST post offices.

On 03 March, 2020, the online working seminar summarizing results of the first phase of GCF (Green Climate Fund, the headquartered of which is in Incheon City, Republic of Korea) funded “Scaling up green finance practices in the Republic of Armenia” project were presented to and discussed with the program beneficiaries. Over 60 participants from program beneficiary institutions (representatives from Ministry of Environment, from Ministry of Economy, Central Bank of Armenia, International Financial Organizations, commercial banks and non-banking financial institutions) attended the seminar. During the second half of the 2020, the team comprised from international and local experts, as well as specialized consulting company has carried out comprehensive mapping of “green finance” practices by local financial institutions (17 banks and 16 universal credit organizations), identified key policy and capacity constraints of the latters and surveyed entrepreneurs and private households to identify and categorize their experience.

According to the report List of top 1000 large taxpayers and values of taxes paid by them by the results of January-December 2020 published by the State Revenue Committee, ARMSWISSBANK paid AMD 4.451 bln taxes during January-September of 2020, which is AMD 1.7 bln or 59% more than the indicator for the same period last year. Bank is in the 33rd position in the list and the 4th among banks.

According to the report List of top 1000 large taxpayers and values of taxes paid by them by the results of January-September 2020 published by the State Revenue Committee, ARMSWISSBANK paid AMD 3.696 bln taxes during January-September of 2020, which is AMD 1.4 bln or 62% more than the indicator for the same period last year. Bank is in the 29th position in the list and the 3rd among banks.

Taking into account the need to prevent the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) in Armenia, as well as highlighting the importance of health and safety of its customers and employees, ARMSWISSBANK continues to implement measures to promote remote service.