National Bank of Moldova publishes September 2025 banking system foreign currency assets, liabilities and open FX position

The National Bank of Moldova published its monthly aggregated statistics on licensed banks’ foreign currency assets and liabilities and the banking system’s open foreign exchange position for September 2025, based on banks’ regulatory reports on open FX positions. The publication covers balance-sheet and off-balance-sheet items, including Moldovan leu positions indexed to foreign exchange rates, and reports open positions by major currencies alongside total regulatory capital. At end-September 2025, total foreign currency assets stood at MDL 52,939,075,849 and total foreign currency liabilities at MDL 52,718,751,415. Assets were dominated by on-balance-sheet foreign currency items (MDL 49,922,253,364), including foreign currency liquid assets (MDL 18,744,422,771), foreign currency loans (MDL 17,613,338,772) and mandatory reserves in foreign currency placed at the National Bank of Moldova (MDL 13,677,240,453). Liabilities were largely client balances, including foreign currency current accounts (MDL 25,650,427,388) and term deposits (MDL 16,978,942,398). The system-wide open FX position showed long positions of MDL 424,392,163 (mainly EUR 348,040,240) and short positions of MDL -204,068,050 (mainly EUR -168,045,426 and USD -24,511,805), against total regulatory capital of MDL 23,833,748,203; the corresponding end-month open-position ratios included 1.46% long in EUR and -0.71% short in EUR. The release notes that foreign currency balances are converted to euro equivalents using official end-month exchange rates, and that the aggregated series is published monthly by the last day of the month following the reporting month.