On Thursday, 28th November 2019, representatives of SKB bank, Milan Žiaran, Vojka Ravbar, Chief Executive Officer and Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Anita Stojčevska, Head of Retail and Marketing net, accepted "Bank of the year 2019 in Slovenia" recognition, at the awards ceremony that took place in London. The award ceremony is organized yearly, by international professional magazine The Banker.

In the words of Milan Žiaran, Chief Executive Officer of SKB bank, to enjoy that type of recognition it is crucial to have correct business model which works in favour of according inclination on taking risks in the whole economic cycle. At the same time it is important to have excellent business relations with clients, which is based on trust and finding the right business solution. And the most important of all is commitment of employees to common goals. For this reason we have to thank to all our employees, for the results after which we are for the 8th time, recognized by the professional public.

** SKB group

SKB Group represents SKB bank and its subsidiary SKB Leasing and SKB Leasing Select. In SKB Group there is more than 900 employees, managing banking and leasing services for more than 200.000 clients on Slovenian market. SKB Group is from 2001 part of one of the leading European financial groups, Société Générale Group, which has more than 150 years of history in banking business. SKB bank has received two respectable international recognitions. One is "Bank of the year 2019 in Slovenia" decided by The Banker magazine and the other "The best bank in 2019 in Slovenia " decided by Global Finance magazine.

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