The Moldova International Stock Exchange (BIM) will be officially registered in December 2025, and will receive authorization to start its activity from the NCFM by the end of June 2026.
In Moldova, lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has increased by more than 17% annually over the last 5 years, rising from 16 billion lei in 2021 to 29 billion lei in 2025.
Moldova will expand the list of goods subject to sanitary and veterinary control at the border. This provides for draft amendments to the Rules for the movement across the state border of goods subject to control by the National Agency for Food Safety (ANSA).
The State Services Agency has clarified the specifics of the registration of the name of a commercial legal entity containing the official or historical name of a State.
A State Program for the development of industrial parks will be implemented in Moldova, providing for investments in infrastructure and logistics facilities.
Moldovan President Maia Sandu has discussed investments in the Moldovan economy with the head of the French Development Agency (AFD), Remi Rioux. According to the press service of the head of state, this issue was the main topic of discussion between the parties during the meeting, which took place on the sidelines of Maya Sandu’s participation in the Paris Peace Forum.
The new German Ambassador to Moldova Hubert Knirsch familiarized himself with the infrastructure and current activities of the Giurgiulesti port. They were introduced by Matthias von Tucher, General Director of Danube Logistics.
In Transnistria, investors can be released from old privatization obligations in cases when they could not fully fulfill the contracts for objective reasons.
OTP Bank Moldova became one of the first banks in the country to participate in the program GEFF (Green Economy Financing Facility) – Green Economy Financing Facility, initiated with the support of the European Union and Norway. This happened after the conclusion of a financing agreement for 12 million euros with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
Moldova’s vision as an emerging center of innovation and digitalization in the region, as well as an attractive hub for UAE investors, was presented at Expand North Star and GITEX Global 2025 in Dubai.
Premier Energy has provided residential customers with comparative data on their monthly energy consumption to help them use resources more efficiently.
State-owned Moldelectrica announced the re-run of the tender for the purchase of electricity to cover technological consumption and losses in the transmission network for the supply period from January 1 to March 31, 2026.
About 64% of Moldovan adults are overweight and 22.7% are obese.
Moldova is accelerating digitalization in the energy sector and intends to turn energy into a sector capable of supporting the country’s economic growth and security.
The government has approved amendments to the decree on a “single window” for issuing permits for construction work. The document provides for the harmonization of terminology and the procedure for issuing permits in the construction sector, as well as simplification and increased transparency of the process of issuing permits for construction works. In addition, the deadline for the integration of local governments into the Automated Information System for the management and issuance of permits was extended until January 1, 2027.
Moldova’s investment potential was presented to business circles from Romania and Belgium during the Iași Belgian Business Days event. This was reported by the Investment Agency, which participated in this event in Iasi on October 7-8, dedicated to strengthening economic relations between Romania, Belgium and Moldova.
In Moldova, the business environment annually requests more than 70 thousand authorization documents, and 80% of them – in the online format.
Moldova will become a full member of the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) next week. This was said during a meeting that the president of the National Bank of Moldova, Anca Dragu, held in Brussels with the director general of the European Commission’s Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN), Martin Verwey.
Romania will continue to support the construction of transport infrastructure strategically important for Moldova with EU support. This was stated during a meeting held in Bucharest between Moldovan Minister of Infrastructure and Regional Development Vladimir Bolia and Romanian Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Ciprian Scherban.
The National Bank of Moldova (NBM) takes inflationary measures when inflation is high. The law stipulates that the regulator’s main task is to keep inflation within a specified range. For many decades, this range has been within the limits set for countries with developing economies: 5% per annum ±1.5 percentage points, i.e., between 3.5% and 6.5% per annum.
