NEWS – Page 13

19. jun 2017.

Summit of the Finance Ministers, Central Bank Governors and Tax Administrations Directors of the Region

16-17 June Bečići, Montenegro Esad Zaimović, the Chairman of the Montenegrin Association, of Banks and Bratislav Pejaković, Secretary General of the Association, attended the Summit of the Finance Ministers, Central Bank Governors and Tax Administrations Directors of the Region “Regional Financial Stability in the New Global Environment”. The Summit presented recommendations of the regional central bank Governors to the Finance Ministers for better coordination of monetary and fiscal policy. The participants also discussed on the effect of the ECB quantitative easing on monetary policy, interest rates and foreign exchange rates of local currencies in the Wester Balkans, potential shocks, banking […]

12. jun 2017.

Announcement: Customer Security Programme presentation / 16 June 2017

On Friday, 16 June 2017, at Centreville hotel, SWIFT will give the presentation of the programme for security system monitoring, Customer Security Programme, that SWIFT created in the aim of raising the awareness in its member banks of the importance of constant improvement of security not only of SWIFT system, but overall IT systems in banks. The presentation will be given by SWIFT expert for security, Mr Bernard Spitz.

12. jun 2017.

Announcement: Regular annual SWIFT meeting / 15 June 2017

On Thursday, 15 June 2017, the regular annual meeting of the representatives of all Montenegrin banks, full members of SWIFT, and Regional Manager of SWIFT for our country, Mr Michael Formann, will be held at Association of Banks premises. Mr Formann will make the presentation about all current issues in functioning of SWIFT system, announce important novelties and discuss potential queries from our banks.

25. maj 2017.

The representatives of SWIFT held the presentation

On Thursday, 25 May, the representatives of biggest international organization for banking and financial communication SWIFT held the presentation „SWIFT Financial Crime Compliance“ in the premises of Association of Montenegrin Banks. It was attended by participants from almost all Montenegrin banks, who work in the fields of compliance, AML and international payments . SWIFT has developed set of products and applications that are in offer to its member banks, whose aim is assistance to the banks in identification of both legal and personal entities appearing in payments, who are listed either in world sanctions list or in other black lists. […]

18. maj 2017.

MEETING OF THE INTERNATIONAL BANKING COUNCIL IN BELGRADE

Education is of Crucial Importance in the West and in the East Association of Montenegrin Banks attended regular meeting of the International Coordination Council of the Banking Associations of the Commonwealth of Independent States, Central and Eastern Europe (International Banking Council) in period from 17 to 19 May 2017 in Belgrade. The Association of Montenegrin Banks has been the member of this Council since 2015. The main topic referred to the growing role of national banking associations in the financial education and literacy programmes, whereby the banking indicators and economic trends if member countries were also presented at this meeting. […]

16. maj 2017.

Tourism as Economic Driver and Banking Support

Recent FREI organized in Budva has had an interesting panel where Bratislav Pejaković, Secretary General of the Association, was moderator on lending support to tourism. The introduction was made by Darko Radunović, Minister of Finance. The panel was also attended by Zoran Martinovski, representative of International Financial Corporation (IFC) as a part of the World Bank Group, Aleksa Lukić, CEO of Erste Banka, and Dino Redžepagić, executive director in NLB in Podgorica. Some interesting information on the potential and obstacles in lending to tourism were heard at the panel. One of the questions was asked to Michael Porter, a University […]

9. maj 2017.

44th MEETING OF EUROPEAN BANKING FEDERATION IN BELGRADE

44th meeting of associate members of the European Banking Federation (EBF) has been held today in Belgrade and it was chaired by Giovanni Sabatini, chair of the EBF. Bratislav Pejaković, Secretary General and Nebojša Đoković, advisors attended the meeting as the representatives of the Association of Montenegrin Banks. Wim Mijs, CEO of European Banking Federation, presented the strategy and main objectives of the further work of the EBF. Veroljub Dugalić, Secretary General of the Association of Serbian Banks (UBS), presented an overview of the most important indicators in the banking sector of Serbia in his role as a host, while […]

5. maj 2017.

TWO-DAY SEMINAR ON BASEL III AND ASSETS AND LIABILITIES MANAGEMENT

The Association of Montenegrin Banks and Finance in Motion from Germany organised a seminar –workshop in Podgorica regarding more qualitative preparation for implementing Basel III standards. The lecturer was Christian Thornaes (GARP – Global Association of Risk Professionals). The scope of seminar: Introducing bank employees in Montenegro with the implications of Basel III regulatory framework, its objectives and key changes with regard to the capital adequacy, operational and liquidity risks, as well as mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Moreover, the attention was paid to the role of organisational units managing assets and liabilities, ALCO procedures and policies, and adequate […]

27. mart 2017.

EURO MONEY WEEK

Euro Money Week has been promoted for the first time in the Association of Montenegrin Bank, where guests were students of the fourth grade of the elementary school “Sutjeska”. Employees of the Association held presentation on the money and importance of savings, and children animator brought closed the role and importance of banks to children.

24. mart 2017.

Meeting with Finance in Motion Representatives in the Association

Bratislav Pejaković, Secretary General of the Association, and his team held meeting with Slaven Popović and Vladan Čurić, managers from Finance in Motion. Association of Montenegrin Banks has made a qualitative step forward by making an agreement on cooperation with a renewable organization Finance in Motion. The Finance in Motion GmBH from Frankfurt is one of the leading global companies in the area of development financing, which focuses on sustainable economic, social and environmental development in low and medium income countries. Having about 1.7 billion euros in assets it manages through its four funds in 30 countries throughout Southeast and […]

22. mart 2017.

VISIT TO ASSOCIATION OF SERBIAN BANKS

Bratislav Pejaković, Secretary General of the Association, and Nebojša Đoković, Advisor, visited the Association of Serbian Banks where they discussed on current issued with the Veroljub Dugalić, Secretary General of the Association of Serbian Banks. This intensified the cooperation between two Associations which will be strengthened by signing Memorandum of Understanding at the beginning of May of the current year. The possibilities of further cooperation in education, publishing and credit registry were discussed.

20. mart 2017.

MEETING WITH AUDIT FIRM PWC

Upon the completion of the successful workshop regarding new accounting standard IFRS 9, which was held in the premises of the Association of Montenegrin Banks, a meeting was held with the representatives of the PricewaterhouseCoopers from Belgrade. The representatives of the PWC were introduced with the activities of the Association and further cooperation was agreed that will contribute to the quality of activities regarding further education of bankers. The cooperation was initiated through regional PWC representative, Igor Lukšić, and PWC representatives, Jock Nunan, Saša Todorović and Nikola Stamenić agreed on further strengthening of the cooperation between two institutions.