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National Bank and the members of its decision-making bodies shall be independent in exercising the tasks conferred upon them by law, and shall neither seek nor take instructions from public authorities or from any other authority.
In order to ensure and maintain price stability over the medium term, the National Bank’s aim will be to keep inflation (measured by Consumer Price Index) at the level of 5.0 percent annually with a possible deviation of ± 1.5 percentage points, considered to be optimal for growth and development of Moldova's economy over the medium-term.
National Bank shall have the exclusive right to issue on the territory of the Republic of Moldova banknotes and coins as legal tender, as well as commemorative and jubilee banknotes and coins as legal tender and for numismatic purposes.
National Bank is exclusively responsible for the licencing, supervision and regulation of financial institutions activity.
National Bank of Moldova acts as banker and fiscal agent of the State and shall receive from state bodies economic and financial information and documents, which are necessary for carrying out its tasks.
National Bank of Moldova supervises the payment system of the Republic of Moldova and promotes a stable and efficient functioning of the automated inter-bank payment system
National Bank of Moldova is an autonomous public legal entity and is responsible to the Parliament.
National Bank shall inform the public on the monetary policy strategy on the results of the macroeconomic analysis, the evolution of the financial market and on statistics, including with regard to monetary supply, crediting, balance of payments and the state of the foreign exchange market.
National Bank of Moldova is responsable for the compilation of the balance of payments, international investment position and the statistics of the external debt of the Republic of Moldova.
The main vulnerabilities related to money laundering and financing of terrorism, identified in the second national assessment*, as well as recommendations to reduce them, will be discussed in two information sessions addressed to the entities supervised by the National Bank of Moldova (NBM). The sessions are organized with the support of the USAID Moldova Financial Sector Transparency Activity (FSTA) project and will be moderated by national and international experts in the field of preventing and combating money laundering and financing of terrorism (AML/CFT).
Both sessions will be held in online format on 30 June 2022. The first session, dedicated to representatives of banks and non-bank payment service providers, will take place between 10:00 and 12:00. Interested persons can register for the event by filling in the registration form.
The second session, scheduled for 13:00 - 15:00, is intended for representatives of foreign exchange offices, who will be able to connect to the event after prior registration.
AML/CFT events are part of a series of measures supported by the USAID FSTA project to strengthen the capacity of supervisors and reporting entities to effectively prevent and combat financial crime. Also, within this project, the NBM will soon dispose of a state-of-the-art IT solution, designed to automate and streamline the processes of monitoring money laundering risks and shareholding structure of supervised banks.
* The results of the national assessment of the risks related to money laundering and financing of terrorism are contained in the second Report published by the Office for Prevention and Fight against Money Laundering on 1 April 2022. The document presents the threats and vulnerabilities identified at the level of each sector assessed, among which: banking activity, non-bank lending, insurance, securities, activity of foreign exchange offices, etc.
