The Association of Albanian Banks (AAB) celebrated 20th anniversary in Tirana. The representatives of the UBCG,  Bratislav Pejaković, Secretary General, and Nebojša Đoković, Advisor attended at the event. The international conference on “Banks for Sustainable Development” was held as a part of the jubilee celebration, opened by the Governor of the Central Bank of Albania, Mr. Gent Sejko and the Chairman of AAB, Mr. Silvio Pedrazzi. The conference was held at the Hotel International in the form of two panels: The Role and Responsibility for a Sustainable Future, and Banking Changes in the Region. Representatives of  the EBRD, the European […]

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27.02.2019.god. at the Hilton, the Association of Banks of Montenegro in cooperation with NetInfo from Cyprus and our colleagues from the Cyprus Association of Banks, organized a presentation “The Future is Now”, which deals with the latest trends in the business of banking, digital transformation, mobile payments and digital banking solutions. Topic: Traditional banks must adapt and become digitally advanced to set themselves one step ahead in today’s competitive environment and to keep up in this fast-changing landscape. Digital disruption, technology trends and the wide spread of smartphones, are leading to new customer expectations and banks need to be ready […]

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A regular meeting of the International Banking Council (IBC) was held in Moscow. The main topic was “Regulation and FinTechs: problems, risks and security”. With this regard, Bratislav Pejaković, Secreatry General, held very interesting presentation, paying special attention to Montenegro  and he was awarded for the activity and cooperation within this important Forum that gathers countries of the Central and Southeast Europe. Also, Nebojša Đoković, advisor to the Association, was awarded for engaging and cooperating within this body. A conference “Fifth Moscow International Financial and economic Forum” was held within this Forum having “many important guests from Russia, European Union, […]

On October 24, 2018 in organizations of Association of Montenegrin banks, BACEE and Online Business technologies from Budapest, Hungary, made presentation of PSD2 the EU directive (known as PSD2. In short, PSD2 enables bank customers, both consumers and businesses, to use third-party providers to manage their finances. In the near future, you may be using Facebook or Google to pay your bills, making P2P transfers and analyse your spending, while still having your money safely placed in your current bank account. Banks, however, are obligated to provide these third-party providers access to their customers’ accounts through open APIs (application program […]

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On 28 September 2018, the Association of Montenegrin Banks held a meeting with the representatives of the World Bank for the region, Cevdet Cagdas Unal, Senior Financial Sector Economist and Denis Mesihović, WB Office in Podgorica. Several topics were discussed at the meeting, among which on the situation in the banking sector, which showed high liquidity, solvency and capitalisation at the system level in the previous period and on the ongoing projects, dynamics and cooperation with institutions, noting also qualitative implementation of the WB policy-based guarantees. In addition, views were shared on more qualitative support of the Association to targeted […]

The 47th meeting of the associated members of the European Banking Federation (EBF) was held in Brussels, which was attended by Laura Pedrejon, EBRD representative as host. The meeting was chaired by Wim Mijs, EBF CEO. The topics discussed at the meeting included the presentation of the latest data in the EU banking sector, financial education and the future activities of the EBF. During the meeting, a round table was also held where all the participants presented the latest data and experience from their countries related to the banking sector. Bratislav Pejaković, Secretary General of the Association, presented the situation […]

On 4 September 2018, the Association of Montenegrin Bank held a meeting with the OSCE representatives concerning the participation in the technical assistance programme in financial education. The meeting was attended by Andrea GRIFONI, analyst and Adele ATKINSON, senior analyst in the Financial Education and Consumer Protection Division of the Directorate for Financial Markets of the OSCE Secretariat, and the CBCG representatives. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) an its International Network for Financial Education (OECD/INFE) launched a technical assistance project for the financial education through the support of the Constituency Programme of the Netherlands Ministry of Finance […]