One of the core emerging competencies in financial capability is Digital Finance. As a core competency digital finance includes the use of digital financial tools such as e-banking or Internet banking as well as recognising and responding to scams and fraud. ĠEMMA in 2020 initiated the series of Little Black Book of Scams and Frauds. …
ĠEMMA launches Money Monsters – the Educational Money Management Game for primary school children Understanding the concept of money management during the early school years goes a long way in establishing core fundamental traits throughout our life. The first game that comes to mind when talking about money management is Monopoly. The popular board game…
ĠEMMA and the Central Bank of Malta entered into a strategic partnership in 2020 to develop a series of education videos on budgeting. You can find all of these videos on the ĠEMMA Videos page – https://gemma.gov.mt/videos/. The videos are in Maltese. The videos are fronted by Vanessa Macdonald who is a respected Maltese journalist…
A business email compromise (BEC) fraud is an online scam where the scammer impersonates a business representative and tricks you into transferring money or sensitive information. The scammer impersonates a trusted person using an email that is almost identical to the trusted person’s name, or a domain that is identical to the name of the…
The Government’s policy is to encourage savings in such pension plan products – either on an individual level or on an employer basis. The state pension is designed to provide a person with an adequate pension income that provides dignity in retirement. The state pension, however, is not designed to provide a pension income that…
As part of its various initiatives, ĠEMMA within the Ministry for Social Justice and Solidarity, the Family and Children’s Rights has embarked, for the month of July, on a widespread campaign by means of its adverting presence on the BENNA milk cartons. Through this marketing campaign ĠEMMA endeavors to penetrate the majority of the Maltese…
Do you know how to protect yourself against scams and fraud? Want to know more? Download our latest Infographic. Internet banking is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, making the service convenient, very efficient (most transactions are processed virtually instantaneously) and mobile – it can be done anywhere, even abroad as long…
Local Councils Association enters into a Strategic Partnership with the Ministry for Social Justice and Solidarity, the Family and Children’s Rights and ĠEMMA on financial capability education The Ministry for Social Justice and Solidarity, the Family and Children’s Rights and the Local Councils Association today signed a strategic partnership to jointly work together, through ĠEMMA…
ĠEMMA on 27th May 2021 held a seminar on its research on the level of understanding that persons who are born on and after 1962 have on the how the system works in their regard. The general picture is that most people have only a vague idea of how the pension system works and how…
The likelihood is that you do not know how the pension systems works in your regard. In May this year ĠEMMA carried out a survey amongst persons born on and after 1962 to understand their knowledge of how the pension system works, and hence their ability to make informed decisions with regard to their retirement…
