Azerbaijan central bank gives assets greater weight in identifying systemic insurers

Azerbaijan’s central bank has linked the assessment of green bank loans to the national classification system for environmentally sustainable projects, a move expected to improve market transparency while increasing documentation requirements and...

Azerbaijan’s central bank has changed the methodology used to identify systemically important banks, shifting the emphasis from assets placed with the regulator to lenders’ actual role in processing payments. The new model could alter the group of...

A statement by Baku Mayor Eldar Azizov that more than $200 billion had been invested in the Azerbaijani capital over the past 20 years has raised questions because it conflicts with another estimate he gave just three months earlier. Trend news...

The spread of mobile applications, online lending and cashless payments is changing the traditional branch model of Azerbaijan’s banks. Official statistics, however, do not yet indicate that digitalisation has led to mass branch closures or...