First Meeting of Board of Directors of Financial Market Control House
Formation of the audit institution and the financial sector meeting the modern and advanced European standards is one of the priority tasks of the Financial Market Control House. On March 30, at the first meeting this was said by the Chairman of the FMCH Board of Directors Rufat Aslanli.
Rufat Aslanli said that the institutional changes in the financial sector are carried out in order to minimize "the global financial and economic crisis" on the economy of Azerbaijan.
As the main objectives of FMCH Aslanli called the implementation of the state policy in the sphere of regulation and supervision of financial markets, the licensing of credit institutions, insurance and investment and so on finance companies and the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing.
It was committed to diagnose the depth and scale of the problems in the field of FMCH controlled sectors.
Today FMCH Board of Directors includes three people. According to the constitution, the President appoints all five of its members. ----08D
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