A total of US$ 96.36 million was transferred to private individuals in Moldova through licensed banks from abroad in December 2018, down 9.3% compared with December 2017. The sum is also lower than in November 2018, when this came to US$ 103.57 million.

In the course of 2018, the bank transfers from abroad to Moldovans added up to US$ 1.266,84 billion, up 5.6% on a year before, IPN reports, quoting the National Bank. 42% of the transfers came from the EU, 25.6% from the CIS, while 32.4% from other parts of the world.

Transfers from Russia represented 24.4%, 7.5% down compared with December 2017. Remittances from Israel constituted 18.1%, from Italy – 12.5%, from the United States – 9.0%, from Germany – 6.2 % etc.

Transfers in euros represented 51.2% (+6.8% on December 2017), in U.S. dollars – 43.0% (-5.1%), while in Russian rubles – 5.8% (-1.7%).