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- €50 million Risk Sharing Framework agreement signed today in London
- Framework will help Ameriabank to increase local firms’ access to funding
- EBRD will co-finance individual subloans
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has signed a €50 million funded Risk Sharing Framework (RSF) agreement with Ameriabank to facilitate Armenian firms’ access to finance. Under the RSF, the EBRD will co-finance individual loans provided by Ameriabank to eligible borrowers. These loans will support the working capital needs of domestic businesses, help them to expand their operations and improve their climate resilience.
The agreement was signed in London by Francis Malige, the EBRD’s Managing Director for Financial Institutions, and Hovhannes Toroyan, Ameriabank’s Chief Financial Officer, on the sidelines of the EBRD’s 2025 Annual Meeting and Business Forum.
The RSF is one of the EBRD’s core financing frameworks, dedicated to supporting and developing local private companies. The EBRD offers partner banks funded or unfunded risk participation mechanisms in foreign or local currency by co-financing and guaranteeing the partner bank’s loans to eligible companies.
Ameriabank is one of the leading providers of corporate and investment banking services in Armenia and one of the EBRD’s longstanding partner banks in the country.
Bolstering firms’ competitiveness and supporting financial-sector intermediation through risk sharing products are two of the EBRD’s key priorities in Armenia. The EBRD is one of the largest institutional investors in Armenia, having invested more than €2.5 billion in the country across 224 projects, with the majority of that investment going to the private sector.