Headquarters | Pristina |
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Coordinates | 42°39′36″N 21°09′30″E / 42.6600238°N 21.1584217°E |
Established | 2008 |
Central bank of | Kosovo |
Currency | Euro EUR (ISO 4217) |
Reserves | € 1.177 billion |
Preceded by | Central Banking Authority of Kosovo |
Succeeded by | European Central Bank 1 |
Website | www |
1 Many policies are managed de facto by the ECB/eurosystem, even if the bank is not part of the Eurosystem or the European System of Central Banks. |
The Central Bank of Kosovo (Albanian: Banka Qendrore e Republikës së Kosovës, Serbian: Централна банка Републике Косова / Centralna banka Republike Kosova) is the central bank of Kosovo. It was founded in June 2008, the same year Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia, with the approval of Law No. 03/L-074 on the Central Bank of the Republic of Kosovo by the Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo. Before being established as the Central Bank of Kosovo, it operated as the Central Banking Authority of Kosovo (Albanian: Autoriteti Qendror Bankar i Kosovës).[1] The official currency in Kosovo is the Euro, which was unilaterally adopted by the United Nations administration for Kosovo in 2002; however, Kosovo is not a member of the Eurozone.[2][3][4] The headquarters of the CBK are located in the capital of Kosovo, Pristina.