Armenia finance: established payment infrastructure

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• The Central Bank of Armenia describes payment and settlement systems as the regulated infrastructure for transfers among individuals, businesses and government. Its public material identifies bank branches, payment cards, mobile and internet banking, e-money and QR technologies among the channels used by payment service providers. The description establishes a visible infrastructure and service landscape, not access, onboarding, sponsorship, an API, customer mandate or settlement outcome for a particular company.
• The Central Bank states that it operates the Electronic Payment System in real-time gross settlement mode and holds operator, settlement-bank, oversight, regulation and policy-development functions for key payment and settlement systems. Its oversight page identifies the Electronic Payment System, government-securities settlement system and unified securities settlement system as systemically important, and ArCa as prominently important. The named roles help structure counterparty and system mapping, while actual participation, connection, use case and commercial terms are determined through the relevant current processes and parties.
• The Central Bank regulates and supervises payment institutions, payment systems, payment infrastructures and banks from a payments-services and transactions perspective. Its October 2026 decisions include a modification of a payment and settlement organisation licence and updated payment-document requirements. Those records show an active supervisory and rule-maintenance perimeter, while they do not establish the permissible scope, suitability or availability of a product or service for any external provider.
• The Central Bank strategy describes payment-system modernisation, including a comprehensive payment-system policy with digital-currency and tokenisation considerations. It is a direction-of-travel reference rather than proof that a digital-currency, tokenisation, open-banking, cross-border payment, merchant-acquiring or fintech route is currently available.
• Armenia’s published Law on Payment and Settlement Systems and Organisations provides the statutory framework for payment systems, payment instruments and the preservation of payment and settlement information. The law is a legal reference point for defining a regulated workflow, but it does not itself determine the classification, permission, onboarding, settlement, customer or commercial terms for a particular solution.
• World Bank diagnostic material identifies financial inclusion and digital payments as areas for continued development in Armenia. This independent context reinforces the value of a targeted customer and partner investigation, but does not identify a buyer, licensed partner, transaction or commercial economics.