Moldova Business Week announced the creation of a new stock exchange in Chisinau in partnership with the Bucharest Stock Exchange and a group of large investors from Moldova. Most experts believe this could be a chance for the Moldovan capital market.
Over the first seven months of 2025, industrial production growth of 2.2% year-on-year is recorded, Logos Press reports.
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the International Trade Center have planned a series of activities to quantify the Moldovan economy in the context of its integration efforts, Logos Press reported.
The Executive Committee of the National Bank of Moldova at its meeting on September 18, 2025 unanimously decided to reduce the prime rate from 6.25% to 6% per annum, – reports Logos Press.
Entrepreneurs will no longer have to figure out what procedure to use to ask the government for business support and how to fill out documents, the format of which will be unified, Logos Press reports.
The Cabinet of Ministers approved at a meeting on September 17 a regulation on the functioning of the European Employment Service (EURES) network at the national level, introducing European norms of “free movement of labor”, Logos Press reported.
The execution of the state social insurance budget for the first 8 months of 2025 ended with an excess of revenues over expenditures of over 1.3 billion lei, thanks to transfers to cover the deficit of own revenues, Logos Press reported.
The next issue of state securities with reduced yield has been admitted to the primary market starting from September 16, 2025 through the announcement of trades by the Stock Exchange of Moldova, – reports Logos Press.
Moldova Business Week announced the creation of the Chisinau Stock Exchange in partnership with the Bucharest Stock Exchange and a group of large investors from Moldova, Logos Press reported.
The capital city’s positive natural population growth increased in the first half of 2025, which goes against the demographic trends of the whole country in recent decades, Logos Press reported.
Since the beginning of 2025, a total of 15,022 people have entered the labor market through the territorial units of the National Employment Agency, Logos Press reported.
International rating agency Fitch Ratings in early September affirmed Moldova’s credit rating at B+ with a stable outlook. Despite its stability, it includes many aggravating circumstances of the future “credit history” of the country, for which development partners are responsible with their money. But the debts are still to be paid back to the country.
Capital investments in the first half of 2025 record a 21% increase to 15.4 billion lei, Logos Press reported.
Moldova’s current account of the balance of payments in the first quarter of 2025 showed an alarming increase in the deficit to 26% of GDP, exceeding $1 bln. The closest to this level was recorded 16 years ago. Last year’s figures were much more modest, although also very high: 17% of GDP in the second and third quarters of 2024 and 18% in the fourth quarter of 2024.
The ceiling for financing local communities under the government’s LEADER program has been increased from MDL 3 million to MDL 4 million, while diversifying the allocation of funds, Logos Press reported.
The development and promotion of payment infrastructure in Moldova will now officially depend on the global payment technology company Mastercard, which will promote digital payments MPay and EVO, financial education and implementation of modern data management technologies in the payment infrastructure, – reports Logos Press.
Despite the declared increase in transfers, the Customs Service’s procedure for administering state budget revenues for the period 2023-2024 is riddled with shortcomings, causing the state to lose revenue, Logos Press reported.
As a result of the seasonal decline in prices of some groups of goods, annual inflation slowed from 7.9% to 7.3% in August, Logos Press reported.
As planned, in the third quarter, the Ministry of Finance offered citizens to invest in government securities with longer maturity and lower yields, – reports Logos Press.
International rating agency Fitch Ratings in early September affirmed Moldova’s rating at B+ with a stable outlook, which corresponds to an average ESG (RS) relevance level of “5” on both political stability and rights indicators, as well as on indicators of the rule of law, quality of institutional and regulatory framework and the fight against corruption, Logos Press reports.
