The National Bank of Macedonia was originally established in 1971, as part of the
System of National Banks which replaced the
National Bank of Yugoslavia (NBJ) as Yugoslavia's collective monetary authority. The National Bank's
brutalist head office building was erected in 1971–1975, on a design by architects Olga Papesh and Radomir Lalovikj. It became a fully-fledged
central bank in 1992 following the
breakup of Yugoslavia. The Macedonian denar was first adopted as temporary currency on . In 2013 as part of the
Skopje 2014 urban renewal project, the Macedonia government under
Nikola Gruevski decided to erect a new neoclassical building for the National Bank. A construction contract was made in 2016, and the structure of the building was largely completed by 2019 but has remained unfinished since then. By 2024, there was still no tender for completion. ==Governors==