Money and Finance
ASEAN Finance Ministers Process
The first meeting in March 1997 produced a Ministerial Understanding on ASEAN Cooperation in Finance. It provided a framework to enhance cooperation and facilitation in several areas of finance within existing institutional arrangement. The ASEAN Finance Ministers’ Meetings (AFMM) is conducted regularly and assisted by the ASEAN Senior Finance Officials’ Meeting (ASFOM). The activities include exchanging views on macroeconomic policies, improving transparency policies, regulations and rules affecting the financial sector, promoting ASEAN as an efficient and attractive financial and investment region, promoting public-private sector linkages in the area of finance, and developing ASEAN human resource in the area of finance.
Agreements
- Joint Statement of the 2nd ASEAN Finance Ministers' and Central Bank Governors' Meeting (AFMGM)Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Secretariat4 Apr 2016
- Joint Statement of the 1st ASEAN Finance Ministers' and Central Bank Governors' Meeting (AFMGM)Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Secretariat21 Mar 2015
- Joint Ministerial Statement of the 18th ASEAN Finance Ministers' Meeting (AFMM)Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Secretariat5 Apr 2014
- Joint Ministerial Statement of the 17th ASEAN Finance Ministers' Meeting (AFMM)Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Secretariat3 Apr 2013
- Joint Media Statement of the 16th ASEAN Finance Ministers' Meeting (AFMM)Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Secretariat30 Mar 2012
News
- Singapore's Sea accelerates digital bank push in Thai license bidNikkei30 Sep 2024
- Indonesia gives $500,000 in military aid to CambodiaAsia News Network5 Sep 2024
- Cambodia-Singapore Financial Transparency Corridor Initiative launchedKhmer Times19 Jun 2024
- ASEAN making efforts to step up digital financial literacyKhmer Times14 Oct 2023
Opinions and Editorials
- Why ASEAN needs a region-wide digital payment systemThe Diplomat11 Nov 2022
- Southeast Asia eyes digital currencies as financial institutions look to the futureASEAN Today29 Jan 2021
- Developing Thailand's Smart CitiesThe ASEAN Post25 Jan 2021
- ASEAN needs to deepen regional financial cooperationThe Business Times15 Jun 2018
Studies and Research
- Evolution of ASEAN Financial Integration in the Comparative PerspectiveD. Ariyasajjakorn, P. Sirivunnabood, and M.MolinerisAsian Development Bank Institute4 Apr 2020
- Dutch disease investigated: empirical evidence from selected Southeast Asian economies Javaid, Shahid HussainState Bank of Pakistan1 Jul 2009
Meetings
- ASEAN Finance and Central Bank Deputies' Meeting (AFDM)4 Apr 2011
- ASEAN Conference of Governors of Central Bank (ACGM) MeetingAssociation of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Secretariat4 Apr 2011
- ASEAN Conference of Deputy Governors of Central Bank MeetingAssociation of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Secretariat4 Apr 2011
- ASEAN Finance and Central Bank Deputies` Meeting (AFDM)3 Apr 2005