National Bank of North Macedonia

National Bank of North Macedonia
Народна банка на Република Северна Македонија
Banka Popullore e Republikës së Maqedonisë së Veriut

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Headquarters
Headquarters	Skopje
Established	1946
Ownership	100% state ownership[1]
Governing body	National Bank Council
Governor	Anita Angelovska Bezhoska (since 2018)
Central bank of	North Macedonia
Currency	Macedonian denar MKD (ISO 4217)
Reserves	2 230 billion USD[1]
Website	www.nbrm.mk

The National Bank of the Republic of North Macedonia (NBRM; Macedonian: Народна банка на Република Северна Македонија; Albanian: Banka Popullore e Republikës së Maqedonisë së Veriut) is the central bank of North Macedonia. It is headquartered in the capital city of Skopje.

Anita Angelovska Bezhoska [mk] has served as the Governor of the National Bank since 22 May 2018.^[2] Prior to the Prespa Agreement, the National Bank was officially known as the National Bank of the Republic of Macedonia.

Functions

The National Bank performs the following functions:

• establish and conduct monetary policy;
• regulate liquidity in the international payments;
• establish and conduct the Denar;
• handle and manage foreign exchange reserves;
• regulate the payment system;
• grant founding and operating license to a bank and a savings house and supervise the banks and savings houses;
• grant a licence for performing services of prompt money transfer and supervise the operations of the entities performing services of prompt money transfer in accordance with a law;
• grant operating licenses to foreign exchange bureaus and supervise their operations in accordance with the law;
• issue banknotes and coins;
• perform activities for the account of the central government and the government administration bodies.

Governors

• Borko Stanoevski, 1986–1997^[3]
• Ljube Trpeski [mk], 1997–2004^[3]
• Petar Goshev [mk], 2004–2011^[3]
• Dimitar Bogov, May 2011 – May 2018^[3]
• Anita Angelovska Bezhoska [mk], 22 May 2018 – present

See also

• Economy of North Macedonia
• List of banks in North Macedonia
• List of central banks
• Macedonian denar

References

External links

• Official website

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