BAKU, Azerbaijan, November 1. The total volume of loans provided to small business entities in Azerbaijan reached 1.62 billion manat ($95 million) as of October 1, 2025.
Data obtained by Trend from the Central Bank of Azerbaijan (CBA)
indicates that this figure denotes a surge of 46.4 million manat
($27.2 million), equating to a 2.9 percent uptick relative to the
commencement of September, alongside a year-on-year escalation of
48 million manat ($28.2 million), reflecting a 3 percent
enhancement.
Concurrently, the financial disbursements to micro and small
enterprise sectors were recorded at 1.57 billion manat ($92
million) as of the first of September 2025, juxtaposed against the
corresponding temporal frame of the preceding fiscal year in
October.
The CBA also reported that the total business loan portfolio of Azerbaijani banks amounted to 15.5 billion manat ($9.12 billion) as of October, reflecting an increase of 452.8 million manat ($266.3 million), or 3 percent, from the previous month and more than 1.1 billion manat ($65 million), or 7.9 percent, from a year earlier.
