About Fed.az

Fed.az

Fed.az is an Azerbaijani-language business and finance news portal based in Baku, Azerbaijan. It styles itself "FED.az — iqtisadi, biznes və maliyyə xəbərləri", economic, business and financial news, and its strapline in social media describes it as a business and finance news portal. It is a digital-native specialist outlet covering Azerbaijani companies, banks, markets, energy, taxes, public tenders, insurance, agriculture, tourism, construction and employment, published in a fast news-wire format with a heavy emphasis on figures: rankings, prices, rates and amounts are the currency of its journalism. Its name should not be confused with the United States Federal Reserve; Fed.az is an Azerbaijani business publication, although — like every finance desk — it also reports the Fed's decisions as world market news.

The portal maintains an active multi-platform presence, with Instagram and YouTube channels linked from its homepage and content also circulating on TikTok under its own name, where its reports are introduced with the formula "FED.az biznes və maliyyə xəbərləri portalı xəbər verir ki" — "the FED.az business and finance news portal reports that". This profile is based on the portal's own published output and self-presentation; no founding date or ownership record could be verified from open sources.

Identity and format

Fed.az publishes from Baku in Azerbaijani. Its homepage is a dense business wire: a top story rail, a continuously updated "XƏBƏR LENTİ" (news feed) timestamped to the minute, category desks, a vacancies service, and advertising from the banks and financial companies that form its subject matter — banners observed included PASHA Bank and PASHA Capital, ABB, VTB Bank Azerbaijan, Yapi Kredi Bank Azerbaijan, Xalq Bank, Rabitəbank, Bank Respublika and the insurer PAŞA Həyat, an advertiser mix that itself maps the portal's professional readership. The site publishes dozens of items a day; on the morning observed, the feed carried more than twenty items before noon. A contact telephone number is published on the homepage, and the portal brands its video presence as a business and finance channel on YouTube.

Banking and finance coverage

Banking is the portal's home ground. Its Bank desk reported, on a single observed day, VTB Bank Azerbaijan offering cash loans of up to 100,000 manats to pensioners up to the age of seventy, an interview on how artificial intelligence is changing micro-banking by offering loans to entrepreneurs, the banks whose lending was growing fastest — with AFB Bank named as leader — the two banks lending least, a top-ten of the country's largest lenders, and a ranking of banks by the dynamics of their credit portfolios over 2025 to September 2026. Its Maliyyə (Finance) and Birja (Exchange) desks track the manat's movement against the rouble and the euro, the Central Bank's announced rate for the next day, gold and silver prices, and Bitcoin's approach to 83,000 dollars. Ministry of Finance debt operations — an item reporting that the ministry could not sell its three-year bonds because investors demanded higher yields — show the portal covering the state as a market actor, not merely as an announcer.

Energy, markets and the wider economy

The Energetika (Energy) desk leads with the price of Azerbaijani oil — "Azerbaijani oil has reached 120 dollars: latest price" was a top item on the day observed — and follows the commodity prices on which the Azerbaijani economy depends. The İqtisadiyyat (Economy) desk covers everything from damage estimates for unrest in France to the State Tax Service's record collections: one item reported that the tax service had gathered 13.6 billion manats in nine months, 913 million above forecast. Customs reform, investment in Karabakh and Nakhchivan by European companies — reported as having risen noticeably over the past year — a German-Azerbaijani business conference in Baku, SOCAR creating a new company, and FINCA Azerbaijan attracting two million manats from fifty investors with Unicapital as underwriter all appeared in the feed. A partner block on the homepage carries market items from the Troni investment company, including Baku Stock Exchange activity and bond issues, indicating a content partnership with a market participant.

Tenders, taxes and the state as customer

A distinctive Fed.az speciality is its Tenderlər (Tenders) desk, which scrutinises public procurement and state spending: a state body renting a car for 40,000 manats, a state fund paying an individual 1.3 million manats at a monthly rent of 109,000 manats, an agency signing a 4.6-million-manat office lease with a private individual at 112,000 manats a month, and a state body renting an office for 320,000 manats. These items, presented with the figures in the headline, perform a watchdog function over public money that is rare in Azerbaijani business media. The Vergilər (Taxes) desk complements this with items such as the areas in which the State Tax Service uses artificial intelligence. A Hüquq (Law) desk carries court and enforcement items with economic relevance.

Sectors: insurance, agriculture, tourism, property

The portal's sector desks give it breadth across the non-oil economy. Sığorta (Insurance) covered expected innovations in Azerbaijan's insurance sector and the cost of insuring a hazelnut orchard in Khachmaz, with terms and amounts; Aqrar (Agriculture) carried the same hazelnut-insurance story and subsidy proposals from local producers; Turizm (Tourism) reported rising Azerbaijani travel to Georgia and the Trump administration's cancellation of more than 300,000 visas; İnşaat və əmlak (Construction and property) reported a new micro-district to be built in Baku; Avto (Cars) followed a discounted repeat auction of a company's vehicles; Ekologiya (Ecology) carried factual weather, such as snow in Ordubad; and İKT (ICT) covered a new ChatGPT correspondence feature. Jobseekers are served by a Vakansiyalar (Vacancies) desk listing openings at PASHA Bank, Xalq Bank, Azmade Group, Azerbaijan Airlines, Azersun Holding and others, some with salaries stated.

The vacancies desk deserves separate mention because it shows the portal monetising its professional audience's attention in a practical way. Listings observed named the employer and, in several cases, the salary on offer — a trading company seeking staff at 1,000 manats, a logistics company at 1,550 manats — alongside bank and holding-company openings from PASHA Bank, Xalq Bank, Azersun Holding, Sirab and AZAL. For a business portal, a jobs board is both a reader service and a signal of positioning: Fed.az presents itself not only as a place to read about the Azerbaijani economy but as a noticeboard inside it, where the companies it reports on also recruit. Combined with the tender scrutiny described above, this gives the site a dual character — market observer and market participant's tool — that general news portals do not attempt.

Language, audience and distribution

Fed.az publishes in Azerbaijani for a business-minded domestic audience: bankers, entrepreneurs, accountants, investors, jobseekers and the financially literate general reader. It distributes through its website, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok, in the portal-and-social environment that media research identifies as Azerbaijan's main information channel. Its figures-first headline style — amounts, percentages, rankings — is designed for scanning by professionals and for search traffic from readers looking for a specific rate, price or ranking.

Regulatory environment

The portal operates under Azerbaijan's Law on Media of 2022, with its Media Registry for online outlets and its twenty-articles-a-day qualifying threshold for online media platforms, a volume Fed.az's wire comfortably exceeds. Its business coverage is anchored to official data sources — the Central Bank, the Ministry of Finance, the State Tax Service, the State Statistical Committee and banks' own disclosures — whose announcements structure its daily agenda.

What is not publicly documented

No verified founding date, owner, editor-in-chief or audited audience figure for Fed.az could be found in open sources, and international media directories do not profile it. The portal's own pages document its output, categories, partnerships and contact details, and this profile rests on that record, flagging the institutional gaps rather than filling them.

Summary

Fed.az is a Baku-based, Azerbaijani-language business and finance portal publishing a high-volume wire across banking, markets, energy, taxes, tenders, insurance and the sector economy, distinguished by its figures-led headlines and its scrutiny of public tenders and state spending. It serves Azerbaijan's business community and financially engaged readers within the framework of the country's 2022 media law.