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June 19, 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 […]

June 12, 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.

June 12, 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.

May 25, 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. […]

May 18, 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. […]

May 16, 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 […]