One-third of Securities Market - Organized Market FOREX
In 2014, the turnover of investment securities in Azerbaijan amounted to about 13.2 billion manat. According to the State Securities Committee, the share trading platform of derivative financial instruments accounted for 32% of the securities market.
Through BSE was concluded 26,787 contracts totaling the equivalent of 4 billion 94.7 million manat of trade derivative securities on the basis of currency. In addition, investors have made about 3 000 operations totaling 204.6 million manat.
According to the BSE (http://www.bfb.az/forex/canli-mezenneler), currently on the FOREX exchange there are carried out operations on more than 50 currency pairs, Brent, gold and silver.
Liquidity of the FOREX market is provided by the company Invest-AZ. Financial transactions are carried out by Standard Capital, Uni Bank and Demir Bank. --- 08B
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