Skopje, 16 November 2020

Next week, from 24 to 26 November, the fourth edition of the Financial Literacy Days will be held, organized by financial regulatory institutions in cooperation with private financial companies. Specifically, organizers and participants are the National Bank, the Ministry of Finance, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Agency for Supervision of Fully Funded Pension Insurance - MAPAS and the Insurance Supervision Agency, and the private financial sector is also expected to get involved with its own activities.

Due to the conditions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, this year, the Financial Literacy Days will be organized mainly as educational lectures via video-conference link, which will also enable the involvement of a larger number of interested citizens. All the institutions that participate in this year’s edition, through their web sites and through the sites of social networks will inform the citizens of the activities and e-events that are planned, thus notifying how each interested citizen will be able to register their participation.

Financial regulatory institutions invite citizens to follow the information on the planned activities and to get actively involved in this year's edition of the Financial Literacy Days. The purpose of this action is to strengthen financial education, to foster financial inclusion and to increase the awareness and protection of consumers of financial services.

During this year, adjusted to the conditions of the “new normal”, the financial regulatory institutions implemented a large part of the planned activities in the field of financial education and financial inclusion. For the coming period, such activities are expected to further strengthen, taking into account that the development of the first National Strategy for Financial Education, Financial Inclusion and Protection of Consumers, is in the final phase.