The MNB has made reducing the reserves a matter of policy, parallel with a decline in Hungaryʼs short-term external debt. Measures that have shifted the financing of government debt to local banks and domestic retail investors, as well as a declining share of FX state debt, also support the reduction. 

On October 24, Hungary booked the transfer of HUF 176.5 bln in European Union funding earlier suspended because of a dispute with Brussels over the conditions for bidding in road tenders.