30.6.2010 —
Bankart ends the year 2009 recording profit
At the General Meeting, the shareholders among other acknowledged the Annual Report of Bankart for 2009, appointed the certified auditor for auditing its 2010 accounting statements, granted discharge from liability to the CEO and the members of the Supervisory Board.
At yesterday’s General Meeting of Bankart in Austria Trend Hotel in Ljubljana, the shareholders approved the development and financial pan for 2010. Following the successfully established SEPA Infrastructure for Small Payments (SIMP) which already supports the payment systems SEPA Internal Credit Payments and SEPA External Credit Payments, Bankart now plans to set up the other SEPA-compliant systems for the processing of SEPA payments – SEPA Direct Debits in co-operation with the banks.
The establishment of inter-bank centre solution intended for exchange of e-invoices or for acting as a central agent is being implemented at the moment.
The development of the new ATM service which will enable those using debit cards to obtain a printout of transactions on their transaction account has been completed. Besides that, a solution is also being developed for the introduction of safe on-line buying support from the point of view of card issuers, which will allow the banks to support safe processing of on-line transactions performed by their clients. By accomplishing this solution, Bankart will have completed its support in the field of safe on-line buying, as support to traders and safe on-line buying from the point of view of accepting card products via the Internet has already been introduced in the production environment.
In information technology the projects focus on the provision of technical conditions for maintaining a high level of quality and reliability of the company's operations.
In its Annual Report for the previous year, Bankart disclosed good performance. A switch of authorisations from the rpocessing centre of Abanka Vipa to Bankart was successfully accomplished in compliance with a decision taken by Abanka Vipa so that we are nowalso able to process Visa card products for Abanka Vipa, in addition to MasterCard and Karanta.
KD Banka was also integrated in the processing and we set up a solution for crediting the municipal card Urbana via Maestro and MasterCard, processed by Bankart.
At the end of 2009, we included Nova Kreditna banka Maribor in the Card Settlement payment system, which enables it to issue Karanta cards.
As regards information technology, investments were made, in compliance with Bankart’s mission and aim and in order to ensure reliable, safe and cost-effective processing, in various server platforms, communications networks, a central disc array and a data archiving system.
Based on successful co-operation with NLB Tuzlanska banka (BiH), we further strengthened our operations in SE Europe and included Kosovo.
Generated profit facilitates adequate growth and development of the company.
