Azerbaijan’s pawnshop market is growing: how large is the business built on gold collateral?

Azerbaijan’s central bank has changed its methodology for identifying systemically important insurers, giving greater weight to company assets while simplifying the assessment framework. Central Bank of Azerbaijan Governor Taleh Kazimov signed the...

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...