Fitch Ratings, the international ratings agency, said that it had withdrawn International Bank of Azerbaijan’s (IBA) $500 million senior unsecured notes following the completion of the bank’s debt restructuring and the settling of the issue on September 1. The agency has not yet rated the new $1 billion senior notes due 2024 issued in part…
The capital assets of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces Relief Fund amounted to 84,650,521.36 manats ($49.8 million) as of September 1. Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry reported that the Fund’s dollar account has accumulated $212,873.88, the euro account reached 8,336 euros, while the ruble account made up 5,000 rubles. The Armed Forces Relief Fund, established in 2002, targets…
“The government allocated low interest loans of more than 2 billion manats for entrepreneurs over the last years, of course, entrepreneurs also invested their funds. As a result of this initiative, nearly 4 billion manats or perhaps even more funds were allocated to the real sector of the country’s economy,” said President of the Republic…
Turkey earned $204 million from exports of ice cream to 68 countries and 4 Free Trade Zones over the past five and half years. The Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK) reported that nearly 88.400 tons of ice cream were exported in the aforementioned time period, with Iraq, Kosovo, Albania, Northern Cyprus, the United Arab Emirates and…
Tajikistan is keen to develop cooperation with Azerbaijan in all fields, said Tajik Ambassador Soli Rustam as he presented a copy of his credentials to Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov. He noted that he would spare no efforts to contribute to developing the bilateral ties during his tenure. (AzerNews/Business World Magazine)
Assets of Azerbaijan’s AtaBank OJSC have increased by 30%, to 609.9 million manats since the beginning of 2017, said Chairman of the bank’s Executive Board Dayanat Guliyev. He made the remarks at the signing ceremony of a partnership agreement with the Chinese UnionPay in Baku. “AtaBank is one of the country’s leading banks in terms…
Azerbaijan, taking credit for being one of the world’s oldest wine growing countries, intends to expand the export of wine to China, the world’s second-largest economy. The issue was the key topic of talks between local winemakers and the trade representative of Azerbaijan in China, Teymur Nadiroglu. Nadiroglu informed entrepreneurs about the Chinese wine market,…