ABB Invest

ABB Invest Broker Overview

ABB Invest is the trading brand of ABB-İnvest İnvestisiya Şirkəti QSC, a closed joint-stock investment company based in Baku, Azerbaijan. Its foreign exchange desk sits alongside a conventional investment-company business: brokerage in Azerbaijani government and corporate securities, repo and reverse repo, access to foreign markets, and underwriting. For margin trading it publishes a single platform, MetaTrader 4, with maximum leverage of 1:100 and three account tiers, a demo account and two live tiers entered at 100 USD and 5,000 USD. Live accounts are opened by signing the contract at an ABB branch, and the site and its legal documents are published in Azerbaijani.

The operating company holds a licence and register entry with the Central Bank of the Republic of Azerbaijan. WIKILIX still lists the brand's foreign exchange service as unregulated. The two facts stand together; one does not replace the other.

ABB Invest Regulation and License

ABB-İnvest İnvestisiya Şirkəti QSC holds investment company licence İŞ-05, issued by the Central Bank of the Republic of Azerbaijan on 18 September 2020. The entry was confirmed on the Central Bank register of investment companies on 17 October 2026, where it stands as active with no expiry date printed against it. The regulator's description of the licence covers accepting and executing client orders in securities and financial derivatives, individual portfolio management, investment advice, underwriting, dealing on own account as a member of the central depository and the stock exchange, and margin trading.

The company's corporate standing is confirmed on that same register, checked on the same date, under the number 1405161661 that it publishes as its taxpayer number on its requisites page, with a registered address at Nizami street 67 in the Nasimi district of Baku and an operating address at J. Jabbarli street 40C. No incorporation date is on record. An entry on a register of this kind records that a company is licensed and listed in its own jurisdiction; it does not by itself describe the terms on which a product may be offered to a retail client in another one.

Is ABB Invest Regulated?

WIKILIX lists ABB Invest's foreign exchange service as unregulated. The company's licence is confirmed on the regulator's own register, so a reader should weigh both: a licensed and supervised Azerbaijani investment company on one side, and no forex-specific authorisation presented for the brand on the other. Two further points matter either way. No investor compensation scheme that would repay clients if the firm failed is on record, and no authorisation in any other jurisdiction is on record, so a client outside Azerbaijan is dealing with a firm supervised in Baku. Anyone considering a live account can ask the company directly which authority supervises its foreign exchange business and under what number, and should read the risk disclosure and the client agreement it publishes before signing anything.

ABB-İnvest İnvestisiya Şirkəti QSC

The operating company belongs to the ABB banking group, and that arrangement shapes how the service works. Clause 1.3 of its Standard Terms for individuals names Azerbaijan International Bank as its founder company. A live account is opened by signing the contract at an ABB branch rather than wholly online, an investment account can be topped up at a branch as well as online, and the online card top-up is handed to the group's payment portal rather than processed on the broker's own site. The group's ABB mobile banking application is promoted on the same home page for investing in international shares, but it is not the trading terminal for this service: clause 5.3.1 of the Standard Terms describes it as a delivery channel that does not belong to the investment company and for which the company accepts no liability.

Is ABB Invest Safe?

The picture is mixed, and its two halves point in different directions. In the company's favour, the operator is a named Azerbaijani investment company with a licence and a register entry confirmed with the national central bank, a physical office in Baku, a branch network standing behind its account opening, and a complete set of published legal documents including a dated client agreement and a dated tariff schedule. That is more corporate substance than many retail brokers disclose. A licence is still not a guarantee, and the terms a client signs are part of the risk.

The Standard Terms for individuals of 19 May 2025 reserve powers worth reading before funding an account. Clause 9.41 allows the company to cancel every trading result a client has obtained from the point at which it considers unauthorised trading to have begun, and clause 9.40 allows the same cancellation of results, open positions and orders where preferential conditions such as swap free trading are judged not to be in use for active trading. Clause 4.2.6 allows money in the investment account to be applied against an unmet obligation of the client to the company, to Azerbaijan International Bank, to that bank's subsidiaries or to the state, and clauses 4.2.17, 4.2.1 and 4.3.6 allow the account to be blocked and the company's own fees to be taken without the client's instruction. Clause 9.59 treats signing as a written application for professional investor status. Clause 20.3 provides that where the contract signed in branch differs from these Standard Terms the contract prevails, and that contract is not published.

Two operational points sit alongside them. Positions are force closed when the margin level reaches 20 per cent, and clause 9.44 states that a client who does not meet a margin call receives no further one. Clause 19.4.1 allows the company to terminate where no operation has been carried out on the account for three months, with clause 19.6 deeming the client to have ordered the sale of any non cash assets on termination.

ABB Invest Account Types

Three tiers are published, DEMO, STANDART and PRO, and their specifications are unusually uniform. All three are denominated in USD, trade from a minimum lot of 0.01, carry maximum leverage of 1:100, and set margin call at 100 per cent and stop out at 20 per cent, levels also written into the client agreement at clauses 9.32 and 9.33. Entry deposits are nothing, 100 USD and 5,000 USD respectively.

What actually separates the tiers is a short list:

• Preferential spreads are a PRO feature only, and no spread figure is published for any tier.
• Swap free trading is a PRO feature only; DEMO and STANDART are not flagged for it.
• Unlimited deposits and withdrawals apply to STANDART and PRO but not to DEMO.

Opening a live account carries a condition most retail brokers do not impose. The accounts page requires either a demo account activated at least five business days earlier with at least 30 trades executed on it, or a statement proving the applicant has traded a live account at another investment company. Clause 4.1.4 then gives the company five business days to open the account once the amounts due under the tariff schedule have been paid. The swap free facility on PRO carries a condition of its own in clause 9.40: a client granted such terms must not use them to earn passive interest income.

ABB Invest Spreads, Commissions and Fees

Spreads are variable, and no spread figure is published for any tier on the accounts page, so the main cost of trading here cannot be stated. Execution is on a straight through processing model.

On commission the company's own documents say two things, and both belong in the answer. The accounts page marks all three tiers commission free, and the tariff schedule in force from 4 November 2025 confirms it for foreign exchange, stating that no additional commission is charged on FX instruments and that the only cost applied to them is the spread. The same schedule's margin trading section then prices 48 US share CFDs, among them Apple, Amazon, Alibaba, Tesla and AIG, at 15.00 USD each, and the document does not say whether that figure is per lot, per side or per trade. Currency exchange is free of charge under the same schedule, while portfolio management is priced separately at 1 per cent a year of the assets under management plus 20 per cent of the gain.

Three further costs and conditions sit in the client agreement rather than on the fee page. Clause 9.58 provides that commissions on a withdrawal request are applied in accordance with the tariff schedule, in the currency of the transaction, at the AZN equivalent of the central bank's rate for that day. The schedule's own note states that only the company's own commissions are shown and that third-party charges are paid separately by the client, and clause 4.3.3 goes further: a client who does not ask in advance about costs that are not the company's own is treated as fully informed of them. Fees may also be changed unilaterally under clause 4.2.9, and while the general trading terms page promises at least 15 calendar days' notice of a change, the Standard Terms instead place the onus on the client to check the published tariffs regularly.

ABB Invest Leverage

Maximum leverage is 1:100 and it does not vary by tier: the demo, STANDART and PRO specifications all carry the same cap, so a larger deposit buys features rather than more leverage. Positions are force closed at a margin level of 20 per cent, and no second margin call is issued.

ABB Invest Trading Platforms

MetaTrader 4 is the only trading platform ABB Invest publishes, in three builds: a Windows terminal downloaded from its MT4 page, a browser based WebTrader hosted on the company's own site that connects to the ABBInvest-REAL and ABBInvest-DEMO servers, and the MetaTrader 4 mobile application for phone and tablet, offered by QR code rather than by an app store link. There is no MetaTrader 5, no cTrader and no proprietary terminal of the company's own. On instruments, the company publishes 76 currency pairs and 4 cryptocurrency CFDs alongside metals, energy, indices and futures, with US share CFDs priced separately in the tariff schedule.

ABB Invest Deposits and Withdrawals

Two funding routes are published and only two. An investment account can be topped up online with any bank card, for which the company charges 0.5 per cent for the top-up service, or funded by transfer to the company's own accounts, published in AZN, USD and EUR at Azerbaijan International Bank under SWIFT IBAZAZ2X. A branch top-up is available as well. No cryptocurrency route and no e-wallet route appears anywhere on the site, including its operations page, its requisites page, its withdrawal form, its accounts and platform pages, its legal documents and its tariff schedule.

Withdrawals are not a card operation. They are requested on the company's own withdrawal form, which asks for the applicant's name, telephone number, Azerbaijani identity card number and the amount, and lists FX in US dollars among its services. How long that takes is published twice and differently: clause 9.57 of the Standard Terms for individuals of 19 May 2025 gives the company five business days to execute a request for the return of assets, while its general trading terms page states fourteen business days for the same request. Clause 9.56 allows the company to require open positions to be closed first. No minimum or maximum deposit or withdrawal amount is published for either route, and no crediting time is published for deposits. The home page advertises zero commission on account opening, deposits and withdrawals, while the tariff schedule carries no deposit or withdrawal line at all, so the 0.5 per cent top-up service charge is the only funding cost the site itself states.

ABB Invest Support

Support is provided in Azerbaijani and English, by telephone on the short code *3773 and on +994 50 268 33 99 and +994 50 268 33 66, and by email at office@abbinvest.az. The office is at C. Cabbarlı küçəsi 40C in Baku, and the company maintains Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Telegram channels. Because account opening and the contract signature take place at an ABB branch, the branch network is part of the support path in practice.

ABB Invest Pros and Cons

The strengths are corporate and documentary. A named Azerbaijani investment company stands behind the brand, holding an investment company licence from the Central Bank of the Republic of Azerbaijan that is confirmed on the regulator's own register, with a physical office and a branch network behind account opening. The legal documents are complete and dated, the account specifications are published and uniform, and the 1:100 leverage cap with a 20 per cent stop out is conservative by retail market standards.

The limitations are substantial. The foreign exchange service is listed as unregulated, and no investor compensation scheme is known. No spread figure is published for any tier, which leaves the headline cost of trading unstated, and commission is described as zero on the accounts page while the tariff schedule prices US share CFDs at 15.00 USD without saying on what basis. Withdrawal timing is published twice at two different figures. The client agreement reserves broad powers to cancel trading results, to apply account money against obligations owed elsewhere in the banking group and to terminate a dormant account, and the contract actually signed in branch overrides the published terms without being published itself. Funding is confined to bank card and bank transfer with no published limits, and one platform is offered and nothing else.

ABB Invest Review and Assessment

ABB Invest reads as the foreign exchange window of a domestic Azerbaijani investment company rather than as an international retail brokerage, and it is best judged on that basis. The corporate substance behind it is real and checkable: a licence and a register entry with the national central bank, published and dated legal documents, and conservative account specifications with a 1:100 cap and a 20 per cent stop out. Two things a prospective client most needs are still missing. The first is the price, because no spread is published for any tier and the only published cost figures are a 0.5 per cent card top-up charge and a 15.00 USD share CFD commission of unstated basis. The second is the document that finally governs the relationship, the contract signed in branch, which the site does not publish. Both are worth putting to the company in writing before signing, along with a request that it explain clauses 9.40, 9.41 and 4.2.6.