Azerbaijan, Baku, Oct. 7 / Trend , N.Ismayilova /
The Central Eurasian Banking Federation (CEBF) has applied for membership in the International Banking Federation (IBFed), CEBF gead Eldar Ismayilov told Trend today.
"The federations already perform an information exchange between each other. The composition of these organizations, number of member banks and their assets allows us to become a full IBFed member. A meeting will be held in December and our appeal will be considered there," Ismayilov said.
IBFed is the representative body of a core group of the national banking associations.
The Azerbaijani Justice Ministry registered the CEBF in August 2010. The founders of the federation are the Banking Associations of Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine, as well as of Turkey and Tajikistan.