BANK OF ALBANIA
PRESS RELEASE
Bank of Albania interventions in the money market and the foreign exchange market during 2020 Q4
Publication date: 31.03.2021
1.1. Open market operations and factors affecting liquidity shortage in the banking system
Money market interventions during the 2020 Q4 consisted of open market operations for the injection of liquidity.
Average daily injections through liquidity injecting operations with maturity 1-13 week remained almost unchanged, at ALL 39.27 billion, from ALL 40.05 billion in the third quarter, with a gradual increase from the beginning of the year, when the Bank of Albania injections amounted on average to ALL 30 billion.