Post of Serbia - Postage stamps honouring the first 100 years of the Postal Savings Bank

11/30/2021

Postage stamps honouring the first 100 years of the Postal Savings Bank

Today, in honour of the century of existence and uninterrupted work of the largest domestic state bank, the Post of Serbia presented commemorative postage stamps titled “100 years since the founding of the Postal Savings Bank JSC, Belgrade” at the ceremonial promotion in the PTT Museum, in the presence of the Acting Director of the Post of Serbia Zoran Đorđević and President of the Executive Board of the Postal Savings Bank, Bojan Kekić, MA.

“It is a special honour for us to present the stamp that celebrates the jubilee of Postal Savings Bank, but also the common roots and values to which we remain committed - responsible, safe and stable business operations, recognized state interest, the development of new modern services and customer care. Also, I would like to highlight my satisfaction with the long-term intensive business cooperation by which we have made available over 1,500 of our branches for the payment of various government aids and social benefits, as well as provided more than 550,000 oldest citizens, clients of the Bank, with the possibility to collect their pensions at post office counters, while every month, postmen deliver pensions to more than 280,000 home addresses. We are ready to deepen connections with new projects and benefits, we will offer new digital services, such as payment of bills at home addresses, especially taking into account our oldest customers”, said Zoran Đorđević, Acting Director of the Post of Serbia.

Bojan Kekić, MA, President of the Executive Board of the Postal Savings Bank, pointed out that today the bank is a strong, secure and stable financial institution with a clearly articulated state interest, accurate and restrictive results. “We are equally proud of our tradition, as well as the constant modernization and innovations that are unavoidable on our path of growth. In order to, as one of the slogans by which we are recognizable states, be “Even closer to you”, we have expanded our product range and business network throughout the country in the past five years. We are celebrating this jubilee year as a working celebration. In July, we acquired the MTS Bank, and in October we signed an agreement on the acquisition of Komercijalna Banka Banja Luka”, Bojan Kekić reminded and added:

“It is said that a bank is a place where you leave an umbrella when the weather is nice and pick it up again when it rains. This bank has been that umbrella for 100 years, which exists as a protection under which people can safely take shelter. It is an umbrella for pensioners, employees and the economy. We are here, especially today, and in order to invest, increase capital, and participate in the most important state projects, as a financial highway along which we can move forward faster and safer.”

Bojan Kekić pointed out that the stamp that Postal Savings Bank presents today with the Post of Serbia, shareholder and friend, “is not only a beautiful and ceremonial decoration, but also a guarantee, a signature placed on a secure and good future and a state stamp serving as proof that tomorrow of our customers is in good place and in safe hands.”

The commemorative philatelic issue “100 years since the founding of the Postal Savings Bank JSC, Belgrade” contains a postage stamp with a nominal value of 30 dinars printed in counter sheets of ten stamps, a first day envelope of the FDC and a commemorative seal. The issue was prepared in cooperation with the Cabinet and the Marketing and Public Relations Department of the Postal Savings Bank, in the artistic realization of Miroslav Nikolić, the creator of the stamps of the Post of Serbia.