From Real Estate to Startups: The Formation of the Valuation Institution in Azerbaijan

By a Presidential Decree of the Republic of Azerbaijan dated 6 July 2026, the execution of the 2025 budget of the State Oil Fund of the Republic of Azerbaijan (SOFAZ) was officially approved. According to the decree, the Fund's total revenues in...

For an economy that has long relied on oil revenues, European credit lines and conventional multilateral institutions, Baku is increasingly shaping a new financial strategy: to diversify not only exports and trade routes, but also the structure of...

Every time oil prices begin to fluctuate and global markets grow uneasy, the same question returns in Azerbaijan: could the manat lose value again? That fear has lived in the country’s collective memory for more than a decade. In 2015, Azerbaijan...

Future growth will depend less on scale and more on efficiency Azerbaijan’s e-commerce market is approaching a strategic turning point. After several years of rapid expansion, driven by the digitalisation of the banking sector, improvements in...