is familiar, but it is hard to believe that 14 % of interviewers in advanced countries are able to remember recognise the picture designed on each banknote. even less people may recognise the portrait depicted on 1000 leke or 2000 leke albanian banknotes. museums and various activities organised in light of promoting national values and raising the public awareness help to better transmit the message embedded in banknotes, and educate the public through the art in banknotes, featuring elements of our national identity. for this particular reason, numismatists take delight in the subtleties of colours and images of the banknotes. in the apparently just pieces of paper, they are able to distinguish and recognise different ages, and the degree of social freedom. 1 / 2 bis central bankers'speeches in addition, banknotes may also depict concerns of a society, of course, when the artist was able to properly read this concern. hence, the green of us dollar was chosen as a symbol to express the need of the stability in the period of civil war. the 2017 series of norwegian currency reflects the concern on the return to the human basic needs, which are taken away by digitalisation. in reflection to this concern, the portraits of distinguished people of art and science are replaced with the symbols of natural resources, strongly related with the identity of the norwegian people, such as the viking ship, fish or the lighthouse. all these facts show that nothing has threatened the educational and national mission of the banknote. owing to this reason also, it continues to carry it out by resisting even the virtual forms of the currency. in addition, as a harvard researcher states, the paper may disappear earlier than the banknote. dear guests, the international council of museums was established in 1946. every year, since 1977, the icom organises the international museum day, a worldwide event held on and around 18 may. in 1992, icom decided to choose a socially relevant theme for international museum day, each year. the theme chosen for 2017 is “ museums and contested histories : saying the unspeakable in museums ". joining this worldwide celebrating day, in our museum, we have formulated it as “ interesting facts from the treasury : art in albanian banknotes ". and to say the unspeakable, we have invited today mr mark bundy, a master of designing working for over 40 years at de la rue, pioneers of banknote printing in the world. de la rue is frequently heard by everyone visiting our museum, as

ardian fullani : the development of the financial market and money market in albania speech by mr ardian fullani, governor of the bank of albania, at the general assembly of the dealers association, tirana, 25 october 2007. * * * mr. chairman distinguished guests, it is a great pleasure to be here amongst old and new friends and colleagues. i have dearly welcomed the reorganization and reactivation of the albanian association of dealers, and the attempts made by its new board to affiliate aci - financial market association. i am confident that this reactivation will promote, above all, the market development, education and professional training of new members. i deem that the meetings of the dealers association is a good opportunity to share with you some thoughts and concerns regarding the development of the albanian financial market in general and the money market in particular. i would like to emphasize that the interbank money market is the starting point to the transmission mechanism, driven by base interest rate change. currently it is the most important channel of transmitting monetary policy decisions to the economy. i have to remind you that where you realize the profit, the bank of albania implements the monetary policy, whose efficiency depends directly on your capability to maximize profit in this market. this policy is based on the assumption that market participants are rational and their primary purpose is profit maximization under the conditions of a competitive environment. the current development of the interbank market in albania does not fulfil these assumptions yet and therefore, it makes the work of the bank of albania difficult in carrying out this essential function. year 2002 recorded the start of the interbank market, the same year when the indirect instruments were introduced by the bank of albania to conduct its monetary operations. the bank of albania has attended the developments of the interbank money market in the last five years. during this period the trading volume has been fifteen folded, climbing from a daily average of 130 million lek in 2002 to a daily average of around 2 billion lek in 2007. also there has been an increase in the maturity of the traded funds, from only trading overnight back in 2002 to trading up to three months in 2007. also there has been an increase in the maturity of traded funds, from only trading overnight back in 2002 to trading up to three months in 2007. from the beginning of this year, we have been able to publish the fixed interest rate indexes, tribor and tribid, which is hoped to promote the development of the interbank money market. however