OREANDA-NEWS. January 29, 2014. Let’s remind that it was November 2013 when NBM was not performing any operations on the market for the first time for the last 18 months.

Last December, NBM’s transactions on the interbank foreign exchange market amounted to USD55.4 million of which swap operations made up USD 10 million. The National Bank of Moldova uses direct regulating operations -foreign exchange spots and swaps as the instruments of currency interventions.

The spot transactions mean purchases/sales of foreign currencies against Moldovan Leu; they have an influence on the monetary stock. At the same time, a swap transaction is a reversing instrument which does not affect monetary stock in long-term prospect.

The swap transaction means that the foreign currency is sold on the condition of its further re-purchase at the same sum and at the same exchange rate which was fixed at the moment of the deal.