The bank reported a net profit of 139,592 million manats ($82 million) in 2021, 22 percent down from a year earlier.

In 2003 Kocharli opened her first bookstore on fountain square in downtown Baku. She christened her first store Ali & Nino after the popular classic Azerbaijani novel, about a romance between a Muslim Azerbaijani boy and Christian Georgian girl in Baku during the years 1918–1920.

Global growth was projected to slow from an estimated 6.1 percent in 2021 to 3.6 percent in 2022 and 2023 due to the war in Ukraine. This is 0.8 and 0.2 percentage points lower for 2022 and 2023 than projected in January.

Development of the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli (ACG) oilfield and the Shah Deniz gas field are the main energy projects in Azerbaijan.