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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

500 LEKE, issued in 1992, 1994, 1996.

Size	145 mm x 68 mm
Dominant color	blue
Date first issued	01.10.1992
Front side	Portrait of Naim Frashëri (1846-1900), a prominent writer of the Albanian Renaissance
Back side	At the centre, a candle with some of Frashëri’s verses; on the left, an opened book with a landscape depicted on its pages. The value numeral appears on the right side of the note.

Banknote expiry date:

Date ceased to be legal tender: 30 June 2010.
As of 1 July 2010 it may no longer be used as a means of payment.
It can be collected and exchanged at 100 % of its face value at the banking system windows.
Collection term expires on 31 December 2023.