Demand exceeds supply at Azerbaijani Central Bank’s auction  

  05 February 2018    Read: 933
Demand exceeds supply at Azerbaijani Central Bank’s auction
 
The Central Bank of Azerbaijan (CBA) raised 250 million manats from banks at a deposit auction on Feb. 5, the CBA said in a message.  

The demand from banks amounted to 520.8 million manats.

The average interest rate on deposit transactions concluded within the auctions was 10.01 percent.

The CBA started to hold deposit auctions in mid-June 2016. Deposit auction is an auction during which the deposits of commercial banks are placed in the CBA. The main aim of such auction is sterilization of money supply.

Thirty banks, including two state-owned banks, operate in Azerbaijan.

(1.7001 manats = $1 on Feb. 5)


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