Regulatory Alerts2025-08-01 | 8756Board Decision on Approving the Size of the Countercyclical Capital Buffer for the 2nd Quarter of 2025
The Board of the Central Bank of Armenia issued Decision 126-N on July 29, 2025, to maintain the countercyclical capital buffer rate for banks at 1.75% of risk-weighted assets. This decision aims to ensure financial system stability and is based on relevant provisions of Armenian banking laws and previous central bank procedures. The regulation entered into force on the day following its official publication on the unified website of normative legal acts.
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ON APPROVING THE SIZE OF THE COUNTERCYCLICAL CAPITAL BUFFER (2nd quarter of 2025)
2025-07-29
T H E B O A R D O F T H E C E N T R A L B A N K O F A R M E N I A
D E C I S I O N
29 July 2025 126-N
ON APPROVING THE SIZE OF THE COUNTERCYCLICAL CAPITAL BUFFER ( 2nd quarter of 2025 )
Publication date` 01.08.2025
Aimed at ensuring the stability of the financial system; guided by part 3 of Article 2 and point "e" of Article 20 of the Law of Republic of Armenia “On the Central Bank of the Republic of Armenia”, Article 53, part 1 of Article 54.1 of the Law of the Republic of Armenia “On banks and banking” and the “Procedure for setting and calculating thresholds above the capital adequacy ratio of banks” approved by Decision of the Board of the Central Bank of the Republic of Armenia No 16 of February 4 2019, the Board of the Central Bank of the Republic of Armenia hereby:
Decides:
- To leave the rate of countercyclical capital buffer of banks unchanged, at 1.75% of risk-weighted assets.
- This Decision shall enter into force on the day following its official promulgation on the unified website of normative legal acts.
Republic of Armenia Deputy governor of the Central Bank of Armenia Armen Nurbekyan Yerevan
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