IMF staff meet Armenia's deputy PMs on the $175m Stand-By Arrangement as EDB forecasts 6% growth for 2026 and inflation eases to 4.4% in August.
Azerbaijan's banks earned AZN 949.7m ($558.6m) in January-August 2026 as assets rose 12.2% to AZN 62.5bn and net loans grew 14.3% to AZN 30.8bn.
EBRD raises Georgia's 2026 growth forecast to 6.5% and holds Armenia at 5.5% and Azerbaijan at 2.0%, pointing to a widening gap across the South Caucasus.
PM Ali Asadov says strategic FX reserves are about $91bn, nearly 20 times external public debt, as GDP grew 1.2% in January to August.
Azerbaijan's draft 2027 budget plans AZN 42.4bn of spending and an AZN 3.2bn deficit, keeping the budget oil price at $65 a barrel.
Remittances to Azerbaijan rose 40.2% to $748.5m in H1 2026, central bank data show, with transfers from Russia up 67.3% to $356.6m.
Armenian investment company assets grew from AMD 67bn in 2021 to over AMD 400bn, ahead of Yerevan's second Investment and Financial Forum.
Ineco Group, parent of Armenia's Inecobank, agreed to buy a majority stake in Slovenia's Hranilnica LON, its first banking asset in the EU.
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