The Financial Monitoring Service (FMS) under the Central Bank of Azerbaijan in September 2013 received 32,500 information items on suspicious and current account, which is 0.2 % more than in the previous month.
According to the service, in the first nine months of this year, they received 245,196 data. In comparison with January-September 2012 the figure rose to 67,372 units, or 37.9 percent.
Financial Monitoring Service operates since 2009 and is the body responsible for state policy in the field of combating money laundering and terrorist financing. -15B-
Economics
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On February 4, Azerbaijani Economy Minister Mikayil Jabbarov met with a delegation of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) led by Anna Bordeaux, head of the IMF mission in Azerbaijan, to discuss economic cooperation, financial sector issues and structural reforms, the ministry said.
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Azerbaijan Railways CJSC (AZD) transported 713,699 passengers in January 2025, marking a 15% increase compared to the same period last year, the company said on Tuesday.
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Last week, Azerbaijani media reported an impending increase in retail bread prices, attributing the rise to an increase in product weight. The following day, an official notification confirmed that the government had no intentions of sanctioning a bread price hike in the country. However, the threat of a price increase for this staple food remains for another reason.
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S&P Global Ratings has revised its risk assessment of Azerbaijan’s banking sector, upgrading the outlook from "stable" to "positive."
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