YEREVAN, June 1. /ARKA/. Number of customers at Armenian commercial banks was 1,692,866 as of March 2013, a 19.7% increase against the same period of the year before, ArmStat reports.

Number of legal entity customers was 72,500 at the end of March, an increase of 3.6% compared with March 2012. Number of individual clients rose by 20.5% to 1,620,300 people.

There were over 2.8 million account numbers at commercial banks of the country as of the end of March (23.1% increase). Personal bank account numbers totaled about 2.68 million, an increase of 24.2% compared with March 2012. There were 158,800 bank accounts held by legal entities in the period (7.9% increase).

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Private non-commercial money transfers through Armenia’s banking system amounted to a total of over $103.3 million in February, an increase of 24.2% against January, the website of the country’s central bank reported

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The aggregate external liabilities of Armenia’s Central Bank in January 2013 rose by 0.67% to $735.8 million, if compared to December 2012, the regulator said in its monthly bulletin for 2013 January

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A frustratingly slow economic recovery in developed nations is holding back the global economy, the World Bank said on Tuesday, as it sharply cut its outlook for world growth in 2013, Reuters reports

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Armenia’s Central Bank has brought an upward revision in its projection of economic growth for 2013 to the range of 5-6%, says the bank’s performance report on monetary and credit policies for Q3, 2012

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Armenia’s money supply, including deposits in foreign currency, rose 2.1% in September 2012 from August, and 24.1% from September 2011, to 1.267.3 trillion drams, according to the Central Bank

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The amount of loans provided by Armenia’s crediting organizations to residents, including placed deposits, factoring and leasing, grew by 4.5 percent in the third quarter to 144.4 billion drams

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The World Bank has provided Armenia with $50 million for the development of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) , deputy governor of the Central Bank of Armenia Nerses Yeritsyan

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Armenia has moved 18 places up in the annual ranking «Doing Business – 2013» of the World Bank (WB) and the International Financial Corporation (IFC), and is now the 32nd in the ratings (the 50th the year before)

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Dollar rose against all the other currencies as the United States issued better than

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