National Bank featuring at Singapore Financial Technology Festival
Natia Turnava, the Acting President of the NBG, and a team of the body’s Financial and Supervisory Technology Development Department are featuring in the Singapore Financial Technology Festival. Photo: NBG
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Natia Turnava, the Acting President of the National Bank of Georgia, and a team of the body’s Financial and Supervisory Technology Development Department are featuring in the Singapore Financial Technology Festival, an event running between Wednesday and Friday to discuss financial technology.
The NBG said the delegation was represented at the event for the first time to bring its messages on financial technology and impetus for development of the Middle Corridor, a transportation route network connecting China with Europe through the South Caucasus region.
The Georgian central bank has its own exhibition space at the fintech festival, which also features Bank of Georgia and the Georgian fintech startup Fave.
Working meetings, panel discussions, masterclasses on regulations and meetings with investors are planned at the Festival that involves about 60,000 participants from 140 countries.
The National Bank of Georgia on Wednesday rejected media reports that alleged the body had failed to conduct due diligence in researching the background of founders of Hash HSC bank, which received a licence to operate in the country on Tuesday.
The National Bank of Georgia on Monday hosted a working meeting with representatives of the national banks of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan to share its monetary policy experience at the request of the International Monetary Fund.
Natia Turnava, the Acting Governor of the National Bank of Georgia, on Friday said access to finances was a “critical factor” for the success of micro, small and medium enterprises, in comments during the signing of a cooperation agreement between the domestic Terabank and the Netherlands Development Bank.
The National Bank of Georgia and its educational platform Finedu on Thursday won the poster competition on financial education at the sixth biennial Global Social and Financial Skills Conference that brought together experts and practitioners to share knowledge and best practices to socially and economically empower children and youth.
Natia Turnava, the Acting Governor of the National Bank of Georgia, on Monday said Georgia had “all the prerequisites” to develop as a regional hub for financial technology in the Middle Corridor, a logistics route connecting China with Europe through the South Caucasus region.