Governor Radović Meets the CKB Management
25/06/2025
The CBCG Governor Irena Radović and her team met with the management of the Crnogorska Komercijalna Banka (CKB) - Bernadett Engler Dancsné, the Chairman of the Supervisory Board and Tamás Kamarási, the Chairman of the Management Board.
At the meeting, they discussed strategic plans for the next period and current trends in the financial sector. They stated that CKB operates stably, which, given the bank’s systemic importance, is extremely important.
The representatives of CKB Bank informed about the plans for the next period, with a special emphasis on the improvement of services and additional improvement of the user experience, as well as on providing stronger support to the sector of small and medium-sized enterprises.
Governor Radović pointed out that the CBCG is conducting intensive regulatory activities aimed at full compliance with the legal acquis of the European Union, and additionally referred to the domain of digitisation of payment services and integration with the European payment infrastructure.
In this context, she highlighted the expectation that CKB Bank, as one of the key players within the Montenegrin banking sector, will continue to be an example of responsible and proactive application of European standards, and will continue to set standards in innovation and digital transformation on the domestic market.
The meeting particularly emphasized the importance of Montenegrin banks joining the SEPA system, a key step towards deeper integration with the European financial space which, at the same time, represents institutional and technical preparation for inclusion in the national system for instant payments based on TIPS technology (TIPS Clone). In this sense, the Governor recognised the strategic role of CKB Bank and expressed her belief that, through continued cooperation with CBCG and OTP Group, the bank will actively contribute to the development of modern, interoperable and inclusive payment solutions. Thus, the bank would contribute additionally to improving financial inclusion, increasing the competitiveness of the banking sector and strengthening the resilience of the domestic payment infrastructure, following European regulatory and market standards.
It was assessed that such meetings, as part of constant communication between regulators and credit institutions, contribute to better mutual understanding, to the benefit of the stability and development of the entire financial system of Montenegro.