Central Bank records 4% growth in assets 

As of January 1, 2022, the assets of the Central Bank of Azerbaijan (CBA) stood at 26,410,568,000 manats ($15.5 billion), up 3.6% from the previous year.

In the structure of the CBA assets, 17.3 billion manats ($10.1 billion) were debt securities (6.6% less than the previous year), 6.8 billion manats ($4 billion) – money and their equivalents (+21.8%), 1.2 billion manats ($0.7 billion) – SDR (+3.4 times) and 356.281 million manats ($209 million) loans given to banks (-10.8%).

In 2021, the bank’s liabilities surged 5.8% to 25.2 billion manats ($14.8 billion), banknotes and coins in the circulation went up 4% to 12.3 billion manats ($7.2 billion), liabilities to government bodies dropped by 18.6% to 4 billion manats ($2.3 billion), liabilities to the credit institutions increased by 2.3-fold to 7.4 billion manats ($4.3 billion), liabilities on operations with the IMF went up 3.3 times to 1.2 billion manats ($.7 billion), net worth dropped 27.9% to 1.170 billion manats ($0.69 billion), and authorized capital remained unchanged at 500 million manats ($294 million).