According to the National Bank, the degree of coverage of net demand of legal entities for foreign currency by net supply from individuals in January-September amounted to 83.3%, in contrast to 91.4% in the same period last year. At the same time, the demand, although falling, was never fully satisfied, which forced the central bank to periodically resort to interventions in the foreign exchange market.
This year the supply has slightly increased (+5.8%), but the demand has grown even more (+16.1%). In the structure of net supply of foreign currency from individuals, the main share still belonged to the single European currency (72.9%).
In September 2025, the degree of coverage of net demand for foreign exchange on the part of economic agents by net supply from natural persons was characterized by a slight increase (83.6% compared to 79.2% in August).
Also, the central bank reports that, compared to the previous month, the net supply of foreign currency from individuals decreased by 38.3 million euros (-12.9%), while the net demand for foreign currency by economic agents decreased by 65.3 million euros (-17.5%).
On this basis, the NBM intervened on the local interbank market through net sales in the amount of 4.0 million euros.
