Central Bank of Montenegro adds vice-governors as Parliament appoints Gordana Kalezic and Milan Remikovic

The Central Bank of Montenegro reported that the Parliament of Montenegro, on the proposal of Governor Irena Radovic, appointed Gordana Kalezic and Milan Remikovic as vice-governors. Under the Central Bank of Montenegro Law, the vice-governors also become members of the Central Bank of Montenegro Council, the institution’s highest governing body, and the appointments were approved unanimously. Gordana Kalezic is described as an anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing and client protection specialist who has worked at the Central Bank of Montenegro since 2019 and led supervision covering AML/CFT compliance and consumer protection for financial and credit institutions, including serving as a MONEYVAL expert assessing other countries’ compliance with FATF standards. Milan Remikovic has worked at the Central Bank of Montenegro since 2007, progressed to Director of the Supervision Department, and focused on credit institution resolution, including establishing the function in line with European rules and signing a cooperation agreement with the EU Single Resolution Board; the release linked both appointments to Montenegro’s EU accession negotiation obligations, including Chapters 4 and 9.