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Total revenues of local budgets will reach LE 33,302.3 million at the end of 2025, up 17.3% (LE 4,904.6 million) compared to 2024, Logos Press reported.
International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Kristalina Georgieva said in an interview with Bloomberg Television that the dollar’s decline over the past year is not important and the U.S. currency will maintain its leading position, downplaying the importance of the dollar’s “short-term fluctuations,” Logos Press reported.
The total revenues of the state social insurance budget in the period from January to December 2025 amounted to 49,202.4 million lei. They exceeded the expenditure part of the budget by 122.8 million lei, Logos Press reported.
Annual inflation was 4.8% in January (6.8% in December) and has entered a volatile range, continuously declining since June 2025, according to Logos Press.
In 2025, 56.3% of non-cash payments in Moldova will be made with MasterCard cards, while 43.7% will be made with Visa cards, Logos Press reports.
In Belarus, foreign exchange reserves rose by $1.28 billion in January 2026 and renewed a record, reaching $15.7 billion at the beginning of February 2026, according to Logos Press.
According to the Ministry of Finance, within the last subscription through eVMS.md in January 2026, citizens invested 151.98 million lei in state securities, with demand almost double the supply, Logos Press reported.
Chinese authorities have advised local financial institutions to limit purchases of U.S. Treasury bonds and reduce existing positions, Logos Press reported.
As of January 31, 2026, the domestic public debt increased by 1934.77 million lei in nominal value compared to its state at the beginning of the current year and amounted to 53929.6 million lei, Logos Press reported.
Europe urgently needs to reduce its dependence on US payment systems such as Visa and Mastercard, otherwise their market dominance could be used as a weapon if transatlantic relations deteriorate, according to Logos Press.
Digital money can change many things, including the principles of the banking system, experts in this field believe. But they will not be able to change the essence of money, Logos Press reports.
Transition to “smart” finance has started in Azerbaijan. A new digital platform unites all the state’s cash flows, ensuring speed, quality and transparency, Logos Press reports.
As of January 30, 2026, official reserve assets (international reserves) totaled 5,080.70 million euros, down 23.57 million euros from the situation at the end of last year, according to Logos Press.
The National Bank of Moldova at the meeting of the NBM executive committee on monetary policy on February 5 raised the short-term inflation forecast for the end of this year by 0.7 percentage points and lowered for the second and third quarters of 2027 by 0.1 p.p. compared to the previous forecast in November 2025, Logos Press reported.
The execution of the state budget for 2025 ended with a deficit of 15,712.4 million lei. This is 2,499 million lei lower than the adjusted indicator, but 2,623 million lei higher than the previous year, Logos Press reported.
The Executive Committee of the National Bank at the first meeting this year, dedicated to updating the monetary policy, decided to reduce the mandatory reserve requirement on attracted funds in MDL and non-convertible currency by 2 percentage points (from 20% to 18%) and on attracted resources in freely convertible currency by 3 p.p. (from 29% to 26%). At the same time leaving the level of the prime rate unchanged – 5% per annum.
During 448 tax audits during the first month of the year, 289 cases of law violations were detected, for which tax sanctions amounting to 983.0 thousand lei were applied, as well as administrative sanctions amounting to 338.0 thousand lei, Logos Press reported.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has allocated a record 2.9 billion euros of financing to Ukraine in 2025, which is 500 million euros more than in 2024, Logos Press reported.
On February 5, the Executive Committee of the National Bank of Moldova (NBM) unanimously decided to keep the key rate at the current level, confirming experts’ forecasts about the end of the monetary policy easing period, Logos Press reports.
The Ministry of Finance has prepared a simplified version of the state budget for 2026, which sets out the main parameters of the financial document in an accessible form, including on socially important issues of the direction of funds, reports Logos Press.
