The National Bank of Moldova’s Governor, Anca Dragu, spoke at the AI & Big Data Conference: Regional AI Valley 2026 in Bucharest, framing artificial intelligence as a key enabler of modernisation in the financial sector and a tool to strengthen analytical and supervisory capacity. Her remarks highlighted AI’s potential to support central bank functions such as economic data analysis, financial supervision and risk detection, helping improve understanding of economic and financial developments. She also stressed that adoption should remain grounded in robust governance, transparency, cyber security and data protection, with public policy decisions remaining anchored in human responsibility; in this context, the National Bank of Moldova is developing initiatives to integrate AI into its institutional work to help staff access and analyse internal legal and procedural information sources.