On 03 February 2021, the next online meeting of the Financial Services Working Group took place with participation of more than 20 company representatives. The meeting was focused on identifying and managing risks in the banking and financial sector in Azerbaijan.

Opening the meeting, Evgenia Gashikulina noted a number of positive economic signs in the country despite some large remaining uncertainties in the international and domestic markets. The session was moderated by Evgenia Gashikulina and we were joined by two guest speakers - Afgan Bakhishov, Executive Director on Legal and Compliance and Fuad Rustamov, Head of the Underwriting Department from the AccessBank CJSC who shared their observation on financial and legal risks when analysing the companies in the market.

The online event was interactive and after the presentations, the guest speakers answered questions raised by the participants.