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By Amina Nazarli

Azerbaijani banks will operate in an enhanced mode during the Novruz holidays, the Financial Market Supervisory Body reported.

More than 100 branches of about 30 banks will work in an enhanced mode on March 18-26.

List of Azerbaijani banks working on public holidays.

Besides, during the holidays there will be a special monitoring group of the FMSB and in case of any problems one can address to the hotline.

Coordinator: Azer Guluyev;
Phone: 012 493-50-58 (internal: 300).

The decision was probably made after the currency exchange problems that tourists faced during the national holiday -- Novruz – last March, when many local banks did not work, and foreign tourists faced difficulties with bank operations.

Thirty two banks, including two state-owned, operate in Azerbaijan.

In 2016, the number of tourists visiting the Land of Fire amounted to 2,242 million people and this is 11.7 percent more than in 2015.

The majority of tourists came from Russia, Georgia, Turkey and Iran making up 33 percent, 22.5 percent, 13.9 percent and 10.9 percent, accordingly.

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