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Monetary Policy
The Bank of Albania is responsible for formulating, approving and implementing the monetary policy in the Republic of Albania.

What is Monetary Policy?
- Analyses
Markets
In order to implement the monetary policy, the Bank of Albania carries out operations in the interbank market, the foreign exchange market and the government securities market.

Markets
Financial Stability
The Bank of Albania, in cooperation with other authorities, contributes to safeguarding financial stability in Albania.

Financial Stability
- De-euroziaton package
Supervision
The Bank of Albania is responsible for the licencing and supervision of banks and other institutions that conduct banking and financial activities in the Republic of Albania.

Supervision
- Handling complaints
- Supervisory expectations for green finance
Resolution
Resolution is the use of appropriate tools in the case of troubled banks facing financial distress.

Resolution
Statistics
The Bank of Albania compiles statistics to support the decision-making processes and bodies and performs statistical functions for the public at large.

Statistics
Currency
The Bank of Albania is the sole authority for issuing banknotes and coins of legal tender in the Republic of Albania. The monetary unit of the Republic of Albania is the "Lek”.

Role of the Bank of Albania in issuing the national currency
- Currency in circulation
Payments
To promote the normal operation and functioning of the payment system, as one of its main duties, the Bank of Albania plays an active role as the operator, overseer and catalyst and reformer of the payment systems.

Payment System
Museum and education
The Bank of Albania has been committed for years to expanding and deepening financial literacy in Albania, through educational activities and publications, as well as through its Museum.

Museum and Education
- Museum of the Bank of Albania
- Education

Our currency

We are all aware of the important role Money plays in our daily lives. Whether it is lek, franc, euro, dollar, instrument... money is vital! To Christians, love for Money represents the root of all evil; to generals, it was the strongest weapon in the battlefield; to revolutionaries, shackles on the workers wrists. But, what is money? Is it about a mountain of silver, some ceramic tablets, or pieces of paper? What is its journey like in time, until nowadays, when money is most of the time invisible? More or less, a grouping of digits on computer screens? Where did money come from and how did it evolve?"

To learn about the journey of money in Albanian lands and the history of the establishment of the central bank institution in Albania, we invite you to click the following links:

Signing of the first concession for the establishment of an Albanian national bank, 4 October 1913
Banknotes in Autonomous Region of Korça
Regional banknotes
National Bank of Albania, Vlora, 1925
State Bank of Albania, 1945-1992
Bank of Albania
Toward Europe