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2 - 3 October 2014, Skopje, Macedonia

Third Child and Youth Finance Regional Meeting for Europe and Central Asia

Program

Venue: Alexandar Palace Hotel

Wednesday, 1st October

19:00 - 21:00 Inaugural Dinner hosted by the NBRM

Thursday, 2nd October

08:30 - 09:30 Registration and Tea

09:30 - 10:30 Official inauguration opening:
Opening remarks:
- Mr. Dimitar Bogov, Governor, National Bank, Macedonia (opening speech)
- Mr. Ibrahim Ibrahimi, Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Policy, Macedonia (speech)
- Mr. Tevfik Kinik, Executive Vice Chairman, Capital Market Boards of Turkey (speech)
- Ms. Jeroo Billimoria, Managing Director, Child and Youth Finance International
- Youth representatives
- Michel Barnier, Vice-President, European Commission - video message

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30 Financial capability: examples, best practices and policy recommendations
Chair: Elita Zulbeari Masha, CEO, Woodrow Wilson School, Macedonia
Contributors:
- Ms. Susana Narciso, Head of Division of Banking Conduct Regulation, Banco do Portugal (presentation)
- Ms. Kristina Nikolovska, Assistant to the Governor, National Bank of the Republic of Macedonia (presentation)
- Mr. Artur Turemka, MasterCard General Manager for the Balkan region,  MasterCard Europe (presentation)

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 14:30 Global Money Week (moderated by youth representatives)

14:30 - 15:00 Coffee break

15:00 - 17:00 Parallel sessions 

1.1 National Financial Education strategies and curriculum integration
Contributors:
- Ms. Ieva Upleja, Head of Working Group for Implementation of National Financial Literacy Strategy, FCMC Latvia
- Ms. Nora Sabani, UNICEF, Macedonia
- Mr. Sebastian Faryniarz, Acting Team Leader Microfinance and Financial Instruments, Program Framework and Finance for Private Sector Development in Tajikistan, GIZ
- Mr. Mircea Muresan, Deputy Director, Communications Division, National Bank of Romania
1.2 School Bank: Examples from the region
Contributors:
- Ms. Louise Entwistle, Government and Public Sector
- Market Development Europe, MasterCard
- Ms. Ana-Maria Pochi, Account Manager Romania, MasterCard
- Mr. Rohnny Swennen, Business Leader, Global Youth Product Development, MasterCard
- Mr. Ron van den Akker, Innovations Manager, CYFI

19:00 Dinner hosted by MasterCard, Aleksandar Palace

Friday, 3rd October

09:00 - 09:15 Welcome and program presentation

09:15 - 10:15 Assessing the State of the Field in Youth Financial Capabilities: Process Evaluation and its Use for Policy
Moderator: Ms. Sue Lewis, Personal Finance Education Group, UK (presentation)
Speakers:
- Ms. Sona Lalayan, Coordinator of financial education, Consumer Rights Protection and Financial Education Center Central Bank of Armenia (presentation)
- Ms. Kirsty Bowman-Vaughan, Young People Policy Manager,  The Money Advice Service, UK (presentation)

10:15 - 10:45 Coffee break

10:45 - 12:15 Parallel sessions
2.1.Youth entrepreneurship and employment
Contributors:
- Ms. Isidora Sidorovska, Managing Director, The Management Support Institute
- Mr. Lazar Nedanoski, Project manager, Macedonian Enterprise Development Foundation
- Mr. Gligor Mihailovski, Manager, SEG Holding
- Mr. Ron van den Akker, Innovations Manager, CYFI
2.2. Financial education programs and the role of the private sector
Contributors:
- Ms. Mari-Liis Laaniste, Marketing Manager, Swedbank Estonia
- Ms. Irina Sheikina, Head of PR, Home Credit Bank Kazakhstan
- Mr. Ivan Novakovski, Business Manager, NOVA International Schools
2.3. Teacher Training
Contributors:
- Ms. Ivana Georgievska, Chief of Party-USAID/YES, Education Development Center
- Ms. Sharan Jaswal, Education Director, MyBNK
- Mr. Paul Moclair, Afla-Academy Project Leader, Aflatoun

12:15 - 12:30 Coffee break

12:30 - 13:00 Closing remarks
- Ms. Maja Kadievska-Vojnovic, Vice Governor of the NBRM (speech)
- Ms. Jeroo Billimoria, Managing Director, Child and Youth Finance International
- Youth representatives 

13:00 Lunch and closing refreshments

Friday, 3rd October - Closed door meetings

14:30 - 15:30 Closed door meeting on curriculum assessment tool and national implementation publication. Meeting will be facilitated by CYFI staff

15:30 - 15:45 Coffee break

15:45 - 17:00 Formation of sub-regional committee and national stakeholders meetings

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    • High Level International Conference on Monetary Policy and Asset Management (Marriot Hotel Skopje), 16. February, 2018
    • 10-th Jubilee Conference on Payments and Market Infrastructures
    • Celebration marking 25 years of the monetary independence of the Republic of Macedonia
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    • 2nd Research Conference 2013
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    • Opening Joint Public Information Center of World Bank and NBRM
    • 23rd Annual Conference of the Group of Banking Supervisors from Central and Eastern Europe (BSCEE)
    • Conference: Competitiveness of the South Eastern European Countries and Challenges on the Road to EU
    • Workshop: Problems in measuring inflation, May 22, 2007
    • Workshop: "Energy Consumption in the Republic of Macedonia and its Effects on the Balance of Payments"
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INFLATION


EXCHANGE RATES

Counrty

Currency

MiddleRate MKD

EUR

More

EXCHANGE RATES

for the period: -

Counrty Code Currency Unit BuyingRate MiddleRate MKD SellingRate

NATIONAL BANK POLICY RATES

Monetary instrument
Interest rate
Central Bank bills 

5.50%

Overnight loan 
6.00%
Overnight deposit

3.40%


Changes to the National Bank policy rate 

Bank's reserve requirements ratios

Bank's reserve requirement ratios

Liabilities in:

Domestic currency


5%

Domestic currency with FX clause
50%
Foreign currency
19%
 


Financial market operations

Auctions of Central Bank bills
Auctions of government securities
Auctions of repo transactions


Reference rate for calculating the penalty interest rate 

4.75% 

SKIBOR
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