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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
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

Financial Stability

The Bank of Albania has the responsibility to guarantee that the banking system in particular and the financial system in general are stable and efficient.

A stable and efficient financial system is important to preserve, protect and enhance the intermediation, the macroeconomic stability and the efficiency of the central bank’s monetary policy pass through.

At the same time, a stable and efficient financial system realizes the transformation of savings into investments, improves the distribution of financial resources in the economy, and contributes to the development and advancement of financial markets where, among other things, the participants act to minimize risks and maximize profit.

Also, as the supervisor and regulator of the banking sector and of certain non-banking financial institutions, the Bank of Albania contributes to safeguarding the financial stability through the development and implementation of the macroprudential policy, to both prevent and tackle the systemic risk.