TBC Bank is one of Georgia's two biggest commercial banks and is listed on the London Stock Exchange.

Inflation has exceeded the central bank’s 3 percent target for several months. Annual inflation in December was 13.9 percent, up from 12.5 percent in November last year.

Gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 10.6 percent year-on-year in 2021 after contracting by 6.1 percent a year earlier.

SOCAR Enerji Ticaret AŞ, a subsidiary of Azerbaijan’s state energy firm SOCAR, will supply Turkey with 4 million cubic metres (mcm) of natural gas per day in February.

Global growth is expected to moderate from 5.9 in 2021 to 4.4 percent in 2022—half a percentage point lower for 2022 than in the IMF's October forecast.