Non-bank payment service providers (hereinafter - non-bank PSPs) play an important role in offering innovative payment services, competing in this segment with the banking sector and thus contributing to the overall development of the payments industry.

According to preliminary data in Quarter III, 2023, the current account of the balance of payments recorded a deficit of US$ 599,24 million, the capital account recorded a positive balance amounting to US$ 24,80 million, and the financial account recorded a net inflow of US$ 633,63 million. As of 09/30/2023, the international investment position amounted to US$ -6 452,75 million, while the gross external debt totaled US$ 9 763,88 million.

Building the central bank's credibility and independence, as well as helping reform Moldova's financial sector, liberalizing the capital account, and ensuring a fully functioning market economy are among the key reforms requested by the EU in the accession path, stated the Governor of the National Bank of Moldova (NBM), Anca Dragu, during the 2024 Annual Euromoney Forum. 

Moldova’s central bank chief said a collapse in inflation showed that the abrupt turn away from Russian energy had paid off as the republic wedged between Ukraine and Romania seeks accession to the European Union.

The annual budgeted expenditure of the National Bank of Moldova for 2024 was approved in amount of MDL 591,355 thousand, subsequently being rectified.

The Governor of the National Bank of Moldova, Anca Dragu, had today a meeting with the participants of the “School of Modern Finances” program, carried out together with the National Bank of Romania, the Academy of Economic Studies of Bucharest for the students of the Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova.

The NBM Governor, Anca Dragu, expressed this commitment during today's meeting with the management and professors of the Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova (AESM).

Payment institutions / postal operators licensed by National Bank for activity of providing payment services.

The RR is a complementary instrument of the monetary policy, which is used to control the level of excess liquidity as well as to mitigate its impact on interbank interest rates.

The NBM is the central bank of the Republic of Moldova and exercises its attributions as a legal, public, autonomous person responsible to the Parliament.