Mrs. Vasilika Vjero

Mrs. Vasilika Vjero was born in Tirana in 1976.
Mrs.Vjero graduated from the University of Tirana, Faculty of Economics, Department of Business Administration in 1998. In 2003 she completed a master’s degree from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln USA, and University of Tirana, Faculty of Economy. She has also been trained in economic growth by Harvard Kennedy School.
Ms. Vjero has held senior management positions, such as General Director of Taxes, General Director of the National Business Center, General Director of the Albanian Road Authority. In her career she counts more than 10 years of work experience for the Municipality of Tirana in the management of the Tax Administration and the Department of Strategic Planning and local budgets, as well as a series of experiences as a financial expert with foreign donors. She has also served as an expert independent fiscal and budget for local government in Albania for a total of 24 municipalities and communes throughout the country.
Ms. Vjero speaks english and italian.

Mr. Genc Mamani

Genci Mamani is the General Director of the Albanian Deposit Insurance Agency and at the same time a member of its Steering Council.
Mr. Mamani, graduated in 1991 at the University of Tirana, Faculty of Economics, Department of Finance.
In 2001 he completed postgraduate studies at the University of Wisconsin – La Cross, USA, in finance – banking and in 2012 he postgraduate at master’s level in Business Administration at the International Hellenic University, in Thessaloniki, Greece.
Mr. Mamani started his career in 1991 as an economist at the Central Bank of Albania. He pursued his career by holding managerial positions on different commercial banks such as FEFAD Bank (actually Pro Credit Bank), the Italian-Albanian Bank and further on to be back at the Bank of Albania until late 2015. In July 2015 he took over as General Director of the Deposit Insurance Agency.
Mr. Mamani is fluent in English and Italian.

Mr. Donald Duraj

Mr. Donald Duraj was appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Deposit Insurance Agency in 2015. He has a progressive career of more than 15 years in the banking system, an integral part of which have been quite active and successful achievements within various prestigious local financial institutions and those in the international network such as Austria, Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine and Belarus. Since 2015, Mr. Duraj holds the position of Chief of Staff of the Governor of the Bank of Albania with the responsibility of advising, assisting, monitoring and coordinating all issues related to the progress and proper functioning of the Governor’s Office and other departments of the Bank of Albania. From 2010 to 2015 Mr. Duraj was Head of Commercial Organization and Market Development Sector at Societe Generale Bank in Albania playing a key role in the strategic direction, short-term and long-term planning, setting key objectives, coordinating inter-divisional and inter-institutional relations, locally and internationally, with public and private companies, et cetera. During this period Mr. Duraj has successfully led at least 15 projects, among the most important ones for the Bank, and with a direct impact on the expansion of activity in the local market and with an increase in profitability. Mr. Duraj worked from 2005 to 2010 at Raiffeisen Bank Albania and Raiffeisen International Austria covering key operational and strategic positions. The most important of them were Head of Individuals Segment, Head of Consumer Credit Products, Project Manager in the “Retail Leadership” Program at Raiffeisen International Austria, etc. Mr. Duraj has graduated at the Faculty of Economics, Department of Finance, Banking Profile, at the University of Tirana.

05/22/2023

Representation of the Deposit Insurance Agency at the Seminar organized by IADI on the topic: Main challenges in compensation of depositors

On 10 – 11 May 2023, the International Association of Deposit Insurers (IADI) organized a seminar on Key Challenges in Depositor Compensation in Tunisia. In this event were presented some of the best international practices related to Fundamental Principle 15 of IADI “Compensation of depositors”.nnThe Deposit Insurance Agency (ADIA), invited by IADI, was represented in this event by Mrs. Blerta Koçi, Head of the Information Technology Sector at ADIA, as a speaker in Section 2: The main operational aspects of an effective compensation process. The topic of the presentation was: “Regulatory and technological elements for the IT system for the Unique Presentation of the Depositor (SCV)”. The IADI invitation to participate in this event, came as the result of the experience of the Deposit Insurance Agency, built over the years, in terms of implementing the regulatory framework and technological infrastructure in accordance with the best international standards in the field of deposit insurance.nnMrs. Koçi presented in detail the infrastructure and IT systems used by the Albanian Deposit Insurance Agency for the validation, processing and storage of data needed in a payout process. The participants in the seminar were very interested on the topic and participated actively in the exchange of experience regarding the work practices followed by the Agency.nnThis seminar was attended by 150 representatives of homologous schemes, from different countries, members of IADI. This seminar was of a particular importance as it dealt at a technical level with the appropriate legal and regulatory framework for the Single Customer View (SCV), as well as for creating access to depositor data and IT systems of members of deposit insurance scheme. Single customer view (SCV) plays a critical role in ensuring an effective clearing process and represents a major challenge for many deposit insurance institutions around the globe.

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