Notification
Asia-Pacific Regional Forum for Telecommunication/ICT and Financial Regulators on Digital Financial Inclusion is being organized on 26 August 2015 (morning only) at Kuala Lumpur Convention Center, Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia. The forum is co-organized and hosted by MCMC and supported by Ministry of Communications and Multimedia, Malaysia, Department of Communications, Government of Australia and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
The forum will be organized immediately after the ITU-MCMC Asia-Pacific Regulators Roundtable and will contribute to ongoing global activities related to ensuring that people who are "financially excluded", including people with the lowest incomes are targeted by efforts to bridge the digital divide. The Forum which is open to regulators/policy makers, industry players and other relevant stakeholders from both the telecommunications and banking sectors, will provide a platform where regulators from the financial and telecommunications/ICT sectors will meet and engage in a discussion on the subject: digital financial inclusion.
Specific objectives of the Forum are to:
- Provide a platform where financial and telecommunication regulators would discuss and address current and emerging opportunities, issues and challenges related to digital financial services, share their specialized knowledge and experience and analyze ways in which they can cooperate to promote these services in their respective countries.
- Support financial and telecommunication regulators to understand the current state of digital financial services, to clarify/define their roles and responsibilities, discuss possible regulatory approach to best fit the market context (to avoid overlap or gap).
- Establish liaisons and relationships with other relevant organizations which could contribute to the promotion of reliable, safe and affordable digital financial services
- Plan for a regular regional platform for promoting continuing dialogue and longer term cooperation
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