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ASEAN financial inclusion conference recommends regional commitment

Mioh Song, October 31, 2014

 

The two-day ASEAN Financial Inclusion Conference produced a set of recommendations on realization of objectives to accelerate financial inclusion in Southeast Asia, said a statement of the conference available here Friday.

 

The "Yangon Outcomes for Financial Inclusion," released at the end of the conference, said ASEAN Finance and Central Bank Deputies Working Group will be tasked to realize the success of the objectives of the Yangon Outcomes, including engagement with other working groups and the establishment of a Financial Inclusion Advisory Group to support their activities.

ASEAN Financial Inclusion Conference’s Yangon Outcomes recommend regional collective commitments for financial inclusion

 

YANGON, Oct. 30 -- The ASEAN Financial Inclusion Conference hosted by Myanmar in Yangon concluded with the release of “Yangon Outcomes for Financial Inclusion” on Thursday, producing a set of recommendations on realization of objectives to accelerate financial inclusion in the ASEAN region.


“We made a successful conference as international organizations including UNDP, UNCDF and Australian Aid gave pledges in a spirit of goodwill to continue to support for implementation of financial inclusion programmes in the region,” said Managing Director Daw Yin Yin Mya of Myanmar Economic Bank, who presented the Yangon Outcomes for Financial Inclusion in ASEAN at the conference.

 

Myanmar Economic Bank MD Daw Yin Yin Mya reads out Yangon Outcomes for Financial Inclusion in ASEAN at the ASEAN Financial Inclusion Conference Photo: Ye Myint

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