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Today, another 81 Moldovan companies received grants worth 43 million lei. The certificates were handed over to the beneficiaries during an event organized by the Organization for Development of Entrepreneurship (ODA).
Strangely enough, there is an answer to this question. It is not in the triumphalist rhetoric about overcoming the foreign trade imbalance and economic growth, but in the stingy language of borrowing figures that are not backed by real domestic production, capital inflows and exports.
In 2025, the world’s largest banks received record revenue from trading precious metals. According to the analytical company Crisil Coalition Greenwich, this figure reached $3.9 billion – the maximum for all ten years of observations.
In March of this year, 50 micro and small agricultural producers in Moldova received access to preferential financing under the program “Facilitation of Agricultural Credit” (FCA). A total of 408 farmers received financing (re-crediting) within this program in the period from March 2025 to March 2026. The FCA program is implemented by the Office of Foreign Aid Program Management through partner financial institutions.
Moldovan game development studio Paparuda Studio has attracted an investment of more than 210,000 euros (over 4 million Moldovan lei) to develop its first video game aimed at the international market, a groundbreaking achievement for the entire domestic game industry.
Collaboration in the fight against antimicrobial resistance (AMR) as part of the integrated One Health approach was the key theme of the annual meeting of the EUP OHAMR consortium in Vienna. Moldova was represented at the event by the National Agency for Research and Development (ANCD).
Yesterday, Polish financial and technical company ZEN.com won the tender “to withdraw the bankrupt PINbank from the Ukrainian market”. The company will buy 100 percent of the institution’s shares from the state Deposit Guarantee Fund. Apparently, a new foreign player will enter the Ukrainian market of financial services.
The necessity of attracting foreign investments into the Moldovan economy is not disputed by anyone. However, the country’s authorities do not have a clear understanding of how to actually do it, what levers and mechanisms to use. One of the effective, and at the same time quite accessible and efficient mechanisms was proposed by a well-known entrepreneur Mircea Baciu. What exactly we are talking about – in his interview with curentul.md.
Commercialization of artificial intelligence and its large-scale implementation into business processes were at the center of the Seattle Startup Summit 2026 agenda. The forum takes place on April 1-2 and brought together 1,500 participants from all over the world – startup founders, venture capitalists and engineers.
The public procurement system has registered notable changes in the dynamics of appeals in the awarding of contracts. The number of appeals decreased, but their total financial importance increased, reaching 8.8 billion lei in 2025 against 6 billion lei a year earlier.
Former Moldovan Prime Minister Ion Sturza believes that real economic relations between Moldova and Romania started only a few years ago.
New foreign aid projects in the sphere of social protection, education, agriculture will receive tax and customs privileges. The decision is related to updating the list of technical and investment support programs operating on the basis of international agreements.
China’s TCL and Japan’s Sony are officially moving to form a Bravia-branded joint venture, scheduled to launch next April.
The price of gold, which was recently at its peak, is experiencing one of the sharpest declines in recent years. During March, the precious metal lost more than 13% of its value.
Starting from April 1, 2026, the National Bank of Moldova (NBM) issues in numismatic circulation the commemorative coin “Ion Pelivan – 150 years since his birth”, which completes the series “Personalities”.
The government is preparing a complete digitalization of public services for establishing, running and liquidating a business. It is expected to remove barriers and reduce bureaucracy in the activities of companies.
Russia is introducing regulation of cryptocurrencies. This involves the creation of a controlled infrastructure for transactions in digital assets and the introduction of rules for all market participants – from private investors to exchanges and exchangers.
In early March, the National Energy Regulatory Agency (ANRE) extended until the end of June the decision to appoint Moldovagaz JSC responsible for ensuring gas supply to the Transnistrian region. Earlier, in 2023, ANRE revoked the license for natural gas transportation from the Moldovan-Russian company, giving this function to a subsidiary of the Romanian state operator Transgaz. And in 2025 – the license for supply, which is now handled by the Moldovan state-owned company Energocom.
The budget allocated for 2025 for the Prima Casa program was completely exhausted already in the first quarter due to the large number of applications. Therefore, the program was put on hold “until the mechanism is improved”.
In the current market cycle, bitcoin’s drawdown has been much less profound than in previous periods.
