The NBM’s report on international accounts of the Republic of Moldova in the quarter II of this year indicates an increase in the balance of foreign investment in domestic economy by 282.04 million USD during the quarter II of this year. The increase in direct investments was caused by new participation interests in Moldovan enterprises in the amount of 315.03 million USD. As a result, the total stock of liabilities in the form of foreign investment reached 4,486.61 million USD at the end of the first half of the year, an increase of 7.6% compared with the situation at the beginning of the year. The share of participation interests and investment fund shares (accumulated equity capital) in the total stock of foreign investments in the reporting period amounted to 56.9% versus 43.1% for debt instruments. Geographically, investors from EU countries had the largest share of participation interests and investment fund shares in the total stock of foreign investments (86.5%), an increase of 3.3 percentage points, as compared with the situation at the end of last year.

The stock of direct investments in the form of participation interests and shares accumulated in the country's banking sector was characterized at the end of the quarter II of the year, from geographical point of view, by prevailing investors from Bulgaria (124.76 million USD), followed by investors from the Netherlands (100.54 million USD), Great Britain (92.18 million USD), France (74.95 million USD) and Italy (59.49 million USD). In other sectors, the stock of direct investments, accumulated equity capital, by geographic region, demonstrates, at the end of the first half of the year, the predominance of investors from jurisdictions that offer the conditions for creating offshore companies. Thus, the stock of direct investments, accumulated equity capital, was at the end of June dominated by Cyprus (452.46 million USD) followed by the Netherlands (333.39 million USD). It is noteworthy in this regard that the investments from Cyprus have increased by more than 250 million USD in the quarter II of the year. The other most important direct investments, accumulated equity capital, in terms of geographical regions, were represented by Romania (191.17 million USD), France (184.7 million USD) and Spain (176.05 million USD).