ASEAN+3 Financial Stability Report (AFSR) Outreach Seminar 2025 in Cambodia

* All times below refer to Indochina Time (GMT+7)

8:30 AM – 9:00 AM

Registration

9:00 AM – 9:10 AM

Welcome/Opening Remarks

Eng Netra, Executive Director, CDRI

Khou Vouthy, Assistant Governor and Director General of Policy and International Cooperation, National Bank of Cambodia

9:10 AM – 10:20 AM

Presentation

The session will begin with AMRO’s assessment of financial stability risks and challenges, followed by an examination of Cambodia’s financial digitalisation, and conclude with a discussion on recent developments in MFIs and the broader non-financial sector in Cambodia.

Speakers

• Prashant Pande, Senior Financial Specialist, AMRO
• Andrew Tsang, Senior Economist, AMRO
• Chhorn Dina, Senior Research Fellow and Director of Centre for Development Economics and Trade, CDRI

Q&A Session

10:20 AM – 10:35 AM

Coffee Break and Networking

10:35 AM – 11:35 AM

Panel Discussion

Moderator: Ms Leilei Lu, Economist, AMRO

Panelists:

• Mr Seng Youraden, Director of Financial Stability Department, National Bank of Cambodia
• Mr Sou Visal, Chief Executive Officer, Institute of Banking & Finance
• Dr Chhorn Dina, Senior Research Fellow and Director of Centre for Development Economics and Trade, CDRI
• Dr Andrew Tsang, Senior Economist, AMRO

The session aims to: (i) exchange views on the key findings of the AFSR 2025 and their implications for Cambodia’s financial system; (ii) discuss recent developments in Cambodia’s MFIs and non-bank financial sector; and (iii) gather perspectives from panellists and participants on how Cambodia can enhance financial resilience and stability amid heightened global uncertainties and ongoing financial digitalization.

Questions for discussion:

• What are the important global shifts that can impact Cambodia’s financial sector?
• What spillovers would these global developments have on Cambodia’s banking system?
• What spillovers would global developments have on Cambodia’s MFIs and non-banking financial sectors?
• How does financial digitalisation help in financial inclusion?
• Do MFIs help with financial inclusion? How does that impact NPLs?
• What are the other advantages and opportunities from financial digitalization than financial inclusion in the context of a small frontier dollarized economy like Cambodia?

11:35 AM – 11:40 AM

Closing Remarks

Mr Abdurohman, Deputy Director for Functional Surveillance and Research , AMRO