OREANDA-NEWS. October 3, 2011. As part of implementing the Agreement “On Cooperation in Training Personnel and Exchanging Experience between Banks–Members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Interbank Consortium” Vnesheconombank conducted a training workshop from September 18 to 25, 2011 for executives and specialists of the Uzbekistan National Bank for Foreign Economic Affairs.

Executives and specialists of Vnesheconombank’s and SME Bank’s key structural subdivisions presented information about Vnesheconombank’s main lines of activity, answered questions about international cooperation, spoke of major projects implemented with the Bank’s participation including those on the terms of public private partnership. They also dealt in depth with principles and criteria of selecting investment projects at Vnesheconombank, discussed methods of and experience in managing banking risks and presented programs of supporting small and medium-sized enterprises.

Specialists of the Uzbekistan National Bank for Foreign Economic Affairs were informed about human resources management at Vnesheconombank, the Bank’s corporate social and non-financial reporting, implementing personnel development programs as well as about main objectives of the training project “Training of Specialists – Participants in Investment Projects Implemented with the Assistance of Development Institutions”.
The SCO Interbank Consortium was established on October 26.2005. Its activity is designed to support regional economic cooperation. At the moment, it incorporates State Corporation ‘Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs (Vnesheconombank)’, the Kazakhstan Development Bank, the China State Development Bank OJSC RSK Bank, the Tajikistan National Savings Bank ‘Amonatbank ’and the Uzbekistan National Bank for Foreign Economic Affairs. The Kazakhstan Development Bank acts as the chairman bank in 2010-2011.

As part of implementing the Agreement “On Cooperation In Training Personnel and Exchanging Experience between Banks – Members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Interbank Consortium” Vnesheconombank organizes regularly training workshops and training sessions for executives and specialists of SCO Interbank Consortium partner banks.