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Statistics of the Central Bank of Montenegro Payment System

Latest change: 20 may 2025 


Indicators of performed payment transactions in the Payment System of the Central Bank of Montenegro in April 20251


During 22 working days in April 2025, a total of 1,319,465 payment orders were performed through the CBCG Payment System. Of this number 529,841 orders or 40.16% were performed in the RTGS system and the remaining 789,624 or 59.84% orders related to the DNS system.


The value of performed payment transactions in RTGS system and DNS system amounted to 2.37 billion Euros, out of which 2.24 billion Euros (94.25%) was the value of the payment transactions performed through the RTGS system, while 136.65 million Euros (5.75%) were performed in the DNS system.


The average daily volume of the performed payment transactions through both RTGS system and DNS system, presented through the number of orders, amounted to 59,976 orders, while the average daily value of payment transactions amounted to 107.95 million Euros.


During 11,990 minutes of production2 for 22 working days in April 2025, there were 3 minutes delay in system operations, thus the availability of RTGS system and DNS system was 99.97%.


Appendix


1 Note: Since January 2018, the Central Bank of Montenegro publishes data on performed national payment transactions in the CBCG Payment System (RTGS system and DNS system).


  • Until 31 December 2017, the collection of data on internal (interbank) payment transactions was carried out in accordance with the Decision on Reports to be Submitted to the Central Bank of Montenegro (OGM 64/12).

  • Decision on Reporting to the Central Bank of Montenegro (OGM 82/17) specifies that data on payment transactions are to be collected on quarterly basis.

2 Daily production was 545 minutes.



Performed payment transactions in the Payment System of the Central Bank of Montenegro in 2023


During 252 working days or 137,340 minutes of production in 2023, there were 13,663,170 orders performed in the Payment System of the Central Bank of Montenegro (RTGS system and DNS system), of which 5,185,032 (37.95%) through the RTGS system, while 8,478,138 orders (62.05%) were performed  through DNS system.


The value of performed payment transactions in the Payment System of the Central Bank of Montenegro (RTGS system and DNS system), amounted to 21.9 billion Euros, of which 20.6 billion Euros (94.12%) were performed  through the RTGS system, while 1.3 billion Euros (5.88%) were performed  through DNS system.


More information can be found in the CBCG’s Annual Report.