
The next meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Bank of Moldova on monetary policy will be held on May 5, not on May 6, as previously scheduled.
This was announced by the National Bank, noting that, in particular, in order to ensure timely coordination of monetary policy instruments, the Executive Committee of the National Bank at an unscheduled meeting on monetary policy made changes to the calendar of meetings of the Executive Committee of the NBM to promote monetary policy in 2022 and decided that the next meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Bank for the promotion of monetary policy in 2022 will be held on May 5, and not on May 6, as previously planned. It should be noted that at its last meeting on March 15, the NBM Executive Committee decided to increase the base rate applied on the main short-term monetary policy operations from 10.5% to 12.5% per annum. In addition, also by 2 p.p. interest rates on loans and overnight deposits were increased - from 12.5% to 14.5% and, accordingly, from 8.5% to 10.5% per annum. At the same time, the required reserve ratio from funds raised in freely convertible currency was kept at the current level of 30% of the calculation base. // 19.04.2022- InfoMarket.