Banca Intesa Beograd CONVINCINGLY HOLDS LEADING PLACE

Concerning 48 banks in the country, Banca Intesa Beograd holds convincingly the leading place, for the past four months, considering the value and quality of the realized dinar and foreign currency turnover of payment operations.Success of the payment operations of Banca Intesa Beograd was confirmed by 38.000 of its depositors, ranked as the most successful domestic companies; as well as, constant increase of the total payment operations and increase of the payment orders, month by month. According to the official data of the National Bank of Serbia, in January and February, 238.7 bln dinars or 21.95% of payment operations in Serbia have been realised through Banca Intesa Beograd. Therefore, with 1.417.000 payment orders in April, the realized increase, comparing to the previous month, is 300.000 payment orders.According to the official data of the National Bank of Serbia, Banca Intesa Beograd holds the leading place concerning inter-banking payment operations with 20.6% in February 2003. Referring to the number of realised payment orders Banca Intesa Beograd is on the second place with 13.09%, although the data show it is first.For the first three months of the current year, Banca Intesa Beograd had the highest growth of 4 billion dinars referring to the credits issued to the citizens and legal entities; as well as, with the increase of 3.4 billion dinars of the issued short-term credits on the annual bases, Banca Intesa Beograd also holds the first place.