Banka e Shqipërisë
| Headquarters | Tirana |
| founding | April 22, 1992 (legal) |
| governor | Ghent Sejko |
| country | Albania |
| currency | |
| ISO 4217 | ALLES |
| Currency reserves | 1.9121 billion euros (February 2012) |
| Base loan rate | 1.75% (January 10, 2016) |
| Base investment rate | 0.0% (January 10, 2016) |
| printer | De la Rue |
| Website | www.delarue.com |
| Website | |
| predecessor |
Banka e Shtetit Shqiptar |
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The Banka e Shqipërisë ( Albanian for Bank of Albania ), the Central Bank of Albania . It is responsible for the monetary policy of the Balkan state and emits the national currency Lek .
The head office is located on Skanderbeg Square in the Albanian capital Tirana . The regional offices are located in Shkodra , Elbasan , Gjirokastra , Korça and Lushnja .
history
In 1913, Ismail Qemalis sought to found an Albanian central bank. This project failed due to a lack of capital and the political situation shortly before the outbreak of the First World War . In 1925, the central bank was founded under the Ahmet Zogu government . The capital came from an Italian consortium which completely controlled the new banking house; for example, the bank's headquarters were in Rome and not in the Albanian capital. In 1944 the bank was nationalized by the communists . From 1925 to 1944 it was called Banka Kombëtare e Shqipërisë (National Bank of Albania) , from 1944 to 1992 Banka e Shtetit Shqiptar (Bank of the Albanian State) .
In July 2014 it became known that an employee had stolen around 7.13 billion lek, about five million euros, over four years. He had replaced newly delivered notes with old ones. He spent the money on games of chance and sports betting. Numerous people were arrested in the course of the investigation, including the governor and the chairwoman of the board of directors in September. While the chairwoman was released, the public prosecutor's office accused the governor of abuse of office.
organization
governor
The governor (alb. Guvernatori ) of the central bank of Albania is elected by parliament for a period of seven years , according to Article 161 of the Constitution on the proposal of the President . According to Article 44, governor can be any member of the bank's nine-person supervisory board. The head of the central bank has the right to be re-elected once.
On October 28, 2004, Ardian Fullani was proposed by former President Alfred Moisiu and approved by parliament. On November 17, 2011, he was re-elected for a second term. On September 6, 2014, he was arrested in connection with the theft of tens of millions. On December 4, 2014, Ghent Sejko was proposed as the new governor of the bank by President Bujar Nishani and was confirmed by parliament on February 5, 2015.
Governors of the Central Bank of Albania since the fall of communism in the early 1990s have been:
- May 1992 - September 1993: Ilir Hoti
- September 1993 - December 1994: Dylber Vrioni
- December 1994 - April 1997: Kristaq Luniku
- April 1997 - August 1997: Qamil Tusha
- August 1997 - October 2004: Shkëlqim Cani
- October 2004 - September 2014: Ardian Fullani
- September 2014 - February 2015: Elisabeta Gjoni (acting)
- Since February 2015: Gent Sejko
Supervisory board
The supervisory board is composed of nine members who are proposed beforehand by the government and then confirmed in their office by parliament.
The members of the supervisory board have been:
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Main building architecture
The Bank of Albania building north of Skanderbeg Square in the middle of Tirana was completed in 1936. His architectural style is in the direction of rationalism , a direction that flourished in Europe in the first half of the 20th century. The project for the building was realized by the Italian architect Vittorio Ballio Morpurgo (1890–1966).
This style is known for its large volumes and distinctive lines on the facade. It was mainly adopted from government buildings with an official character with the aim of expressing the power of the governments of the time, and it was used in many Western European countries. From this point of view, the construction of the Central Bank of Albania is also part of the most prominent buildings of the time with its own style, rationalism.
In his project idea, the building was designed with a polygonal floor plan and divided into two functional areas: the main part, which would take on the representative function of the bank, and its work area. The latter would be connected to the main section on both sides in the 1940s, but this was not realized due to the outbreak of World War II .
The main part is built in an arch, caused by its location on the main town square. The main entrance of the building was realized with a huge portal that takes up the whole height of the facade and stands on wide columns. The outer walls are decorated with wall reliefs made of brick in the characteristic color.
Originally, a residential building for the bank employees was also part of the project idea. This block of flats would also have been built in the rationalist style and would have stood near the bank, adjacent to the old parliament building (today the puppet theater ).
In 2008, the central bank published the first plans to restore its headquarters in Tirana. An Italian architecture firm was supposed to modernize, renew, expand and bring the building up to date for around 13 million euros. In the meantime the bank moved into offices in the former Hotel Dajti , which it had bought for this purpose. At the beginning of 2015, the renovation work on the facade and inside was almost complete, and employees moved back into the renovated premises. The renovation work was completed at the end of October and a bank museum was integrated into the new part of the building.
Web links
- Official website (Albanian, English)
- Old photographs of the headquarters in Tirana
- History of the Central Bank from the magazine Klan (Albanian) ( Memento of January 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Website of the Central Bank of Albania: Historik i shkurtër i Bankës. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 18, 2011 ; Retrieved May 19, 2012 (Albanian). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Central Bank of Albania: Statistical Report - February '12. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 7, 2016 ; accessed on May 19, 2012 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Current ZBA interest rates. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 10, 2016 ; accessed on January 10, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Central Bank of Albania: Kartëmonedha të qarkullimit. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 3, 2013 ; Retrieved May 19, 2012 (Albanian). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Walter Müller: Albanians demand resignation of the head of the central bank. In: SRF. August 12, 2014, accessed September 8, 2014 .
- ^ Adelheid Wölfl: Albania: Head of the National Bank arrested. In: The Standard. September 7, 2014, accessed September 8, 2014 .
- ↑ a b Parliament's website: Kushtetuta e Republikës së Shqipërisë. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 26, 2011 ; Retrieved January 10, 2016 (Albanian). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Guvernatori i Bankes Së Shqipërisë. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 29, 2016 ; Retrieved May 19, 2012 (Albanian). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Website of the Central Bank of Albania: Anëtarët e Këshillit Mbikëqyrës. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 5, 2016 ; Retrieved May 19, 2012 (Albanian). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Website of the Central Bank of Albania: Pamje nga banka. Archived from the original on August 15, 2010 ; Retrieved May 19, 2012 (Albanian).
- ↑ Banka e Shqipërisë rrethohet me rrjetë në restaurim, vërtetohet shfrytëzimi i Mozaikut për biznes me “Vodafon”. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 5, 2016 ; Retrieved May 19, 2012 (Albanian). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Projekti i rikonstruksionit. Godina e Bankës së Shqipërisë. (No longer available online.) In: Banke e Shqipërisë. Archived from the original on May 14, 2016 ; Retrieved January 10, 2016 (Albanian). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Ja pamja e re e BSH, tunel i blinduar për thesarin (New sight of BSH). A1 Report, December 6, 2014, accessed April 3, 2015 (Albanian).
- ^ Bank of Albania staff moves into the new premises of the bank. Press release. (No longer available online.) In: Bank of Albania. January 13, 2015, archived from the original on January 10, 2016 ; accessed on October 18, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Banka e Shqipërisë hap Muzeun e Parave. In: Albeu.com. October 31, 2015, accessed January 17, 2016 (Albanian).
- ^ Bank of Albania inaugurates the renovated building and the Museum. Press release. (No longer available online.) In: Bank of Albania. October 30, 2015, archived from the original on May 14, 2016 ; accessed on October 18, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
