BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 12. The majority of securities payments carried out by Azerbaijan's National Depository Center (NDC) from January through September 2025 accounted for government bonds and notes issued by the Central Bank of Azerbaijan (CBA).
The data obtained by Trend from the NDC shows that during the reporting period, the nominal value of government bond payments was 1.8 billion manat ($1.06 billion), while coupon payments amounted to 365.45 million manat ($215 million).
Government bonds accounted for 66 percent of total payments.
In the first nine months of this year, the nominal volume of payments for the CBA notes was 782.1 million manat ($460 million), making up 23.8 percent of total payments.
During the same period, dividend payments for shares totaled 200 million manat ($118 million), representing 6.1 percent of overall payments.
For corporate bonds, nominal payments were 114.97 million manat ($67.6 million), and coupon payments amounted to 20.2 million manat ($11.9 million). Corporate bonds accounted for 4.1 percent of total payments.
In dollar terms, 67.7 percent of total securities payments were for government bonds, while 32.3 percent were for corporate bonds.
During the reporting period, government bond payments included $20 million in nominal payments and $0.3 million in coupon payments. For corporate bonds, nominal payments were $10 million, and coupon payments totaled $32.5 million.
