Eighth annual meeting of the National Payment Systems Committee, December 9th, 2022
On November 9, 2022, the eighth annual meeting of the National Payment System Committee (NPSC) took place. The meeting was led by Ms. Luljeta Minxhozi, the Chair of this Committee and the First Deputy Governor of the Bank of Albania, who paid special attention to the modernization of the payment system as well as the law "On payment services" which has already been finalized both from the infrastructural and regulatory point of view, and is functional and available to market players. Also Ms. Minxhozi discussed the challenges that lie ahead in relation to digitalization and financial inclusion, topics which were widely discussed in this meeting. In addition to the members of the Committee, the World Bank and other market actors were also invited to the meeting.
Those present at the meeting were presented with the journey of the Action Plan of the National Retail Payment Strategy, as well as the implementation of the Law "On Payment Services", as well as the creation and implementation of a National Strategy for Financial Education, as well as the intensification and coordination of efforts to realize open banking and instant payment in Albania.
The attached documents relating to the seventh meeting of NPSC:
Presentations:
- Mr. Altin Tanku - "National Strategy for Financial Education and opportunities of its implementation in practice" (në version shqip)
- Mrs. Edlira Dashi - "National Financial Education Strategies - Best practices and next steps. A deep dive into the case of Albania"
- Mr. Deniz Derralla - The regulation of open banking and Strong Customer Authentication (në version shqip)
- Mrs. Valentina Semi - The findings of the study on the feasibility of the INSTANT Payment project in Albania (në version shqip)
- Easy Pay - "EasyPay - Bank partnership, the first steps towards OpenBanking in Albania" (në version shqip)
- M Pay - “Payments in real time - It's Albania's time” (në version shqip)
- Rubicon - "Easy of Payments through Fin-Tech" (në version shqip)
- Paylink - "Student card" (në version shqip)
Meetings of the NPSC
- Ninth annual meeting of the National Payment Systems Committee, December 13th, 2023
- Eighth annual meeting of the National Payment Systems Committee, December 9th, 2022
- Seventh meeting of the National Payment Systems Committee, December 16th, 2021
- Sixth Meeting of the National Payment Systems Committee 17 December 2020
- Fifth Meeting of the National Payment Systems Committee 1 October 2019
- Fourth Meeting of the National Payment Systems Committee 20 June 2018