AMRO Director Toshinori Doi Speaks with IMF and RFAs on Collaborating In Times of Crises

The Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Ms. Kristalina Georgieva; the Director-General Chairman of the Board of the Arab Monetary Fund, Mr. Abdulrahman Al Hamidy; Director of ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO), Mr. Toshinori Doi; the Managing Director of the Eurasian Fund for Stabilization and Development (EFSD), Mr. Andrey Shirokov; the Deputy Director-General for Economic and Financial Affairs of the European Commission (EC), Mr. Declan Costello; the Managing Director of the European Stability Mechanism, Mr. Klaus Regling; the Executive President of Latin American Reserve Fund (FLAR), Mr. José Darío Uribe; and the co-chair of the G20 International Financial Architecture Working Group (G20 IFA WG), Mr. Guillaume Chabert, held a teleconference and reported on efforts taken by their institutions to forcefully address the impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak on the global economy

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The Managing Director of the IMF and the Heads of the RFAs Emphasize Their Readiness to Cooperate to Mitigate the Impact of COVID-19 on the Global Economy

Stressing the urgent need for combined, multilateral efforts to face the extraordinary human and economic crisis caused by the pandemic, the heads issue the following statement

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Regional Financing Arrangements Pledge to Strengthen Ties with IMF at Fourth High-Level Dialogue

Regional Financing Arrangements (RFAs) from across the world held their fourth Annual High-level Dialogue today to exchange views on policy issues related to strengthening the Global Financial Safety Net (GFSN).

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3rd Joint Regional Financing Arrangements Research Seminar Discusses Sovereign Risk

The regional rescue funds will discuss, at their 3rd Joint Research Seminar in Luxembourg, how to detect, analyse, prevent and tackle sovereign risk and how they can provide enhanced support, given the heightened global risks related to trade tensions, geopolitical challenges and economic and market uncertainties.

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The 3rd Joint Regional Financing Arrangement (RFA) Research Seminar

The 3rd Joint Regional Financing Arrangement (RFA) Research Seminar co-organized by the ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO), the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), and the Fondo Latinoamericano de Reservas (FLAR), will be held on May 16 and 17, 2019 in Luxembourg.

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Regional Financing Arrangements Exchange Experience and Strengthen Collaboration to Better Support Member Economies

Today, heads of regional financing arrangements (RFAs) around the globe convened at the 3rd High-level RFA Dialogue in Bali, Indonesia, to discuss new developments in their institutions and respective regions, and cooperation among RFAs and between RFAs and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

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