Event Details:

HYBRID Event
8 - 12 July 2024 ǀ Kumamoto, Japan

Registration:

This event is by invitation only. Should you wish to attend, please send an email to ADB Secretariat.
Registration will be closed by COB 28 June 2024. Registration to the meeting is free of charge.

Overview

The 40^th ASEAN+3 Bond Market Forum (ABMF) Meeting will be jointly held with Sustainable Finance Institute Asia (SFIA), XBRL Asia Roundtable, and Asia Pacific Financial Forum (APFF) under the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC). The event is co-organized by Kumamoto Gakuen University KGU), Kumamoto International Convention & Tourism Bureau (KICB), eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), Sustainable Finance Institute Asia (SFIA) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

ASEAN+3 Bond Market Forum (ABMF) was established in May 2010 by the finance ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) plus the People’s Republic of China, Japan, and the Republic of Korea—collectively known as ASEAN+3—under the Asian Bond Markets Initiative (ABMI). The Forum is the only regional platform on which actions and recommendations are reported to the ASEAN+3 policy discussion. It functions to integrate the ASEAN+3 markets through standardization and harmonization of regulations and market practices as well as market infrastructures relating to cross-border bond transactions.

ABMF meetings are held three times a year, bringing together more than 100 experts from the ministries of finance, central banks, securities market regulators, central securities depositories, securities exchanges and market operators, financial market associations as well as major financial institutions and IT vendors in the region. The forum is open to experts who are interested in financial market developments and regional financial cooperation.

Kumamoto Gakuen University (熊本学園大学, Kumamoto Gakuen Daigaku) called Gakuendai (学園大) or Shōdai (商大), is a private Japanese university in Kumamoto, Japan. It was established in 1942, at which time the Institute of Oriental Languages (東洋語学専門学校 Tōyō Gogaku Senmon Gakkō) was subsumed into it. It was renamed Kumamoto Institute of Foreign Languages (熊本語学専門学校 Kumamoto Gogaku Senmon Gakkō) in 1945, and was made into Kumamoto University of Commerce (熊本商科大学 Kumamoto Shōka Daigaku) in 1954.[1] It acquired its current name, Kumamoto Gakuen University, in 1994. At present, the university has 5 faculties with 12 departments.

The university has an affiliated senior high school, located immediately adjacent to the campus, and it is recognized as one of the best in the prefecture. The university also has an affiliated junior high school and a kindergarten.

XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) is an open international standard for digital business reporting and lets reporting information move between organizations rapidly, accurately, and digitally. The XBRL Asia Roundtable (XART) brings together XBRL experts, project leaders, and national regulators from throughout Asia and Oceania to discuss topics of common interest, including project updates and regulatory developments.XART is not only for XBRL society but also open to anyone who wants to modernize information supply chain.

Asia-Pacific Financial Forum (APFF) is a platform for collaboration among public and private sectors and international organizations established by the APEC Finance Ministers in 2013. Its primary mission is to assist APEC member economies in implementing initiatives endorsed by the Ministers, including the deliverables under the Ministers’ multi-year Cebu Action Plan. The Finance Ministers entrusted oversight of the APFF to the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC).

Sustainable Finance Institute Asia (SFIA) is an independent institute established to catalyze ideas on Sustainable Finance at the policy level, as well as propel action in support of those policy ideas in Asia, particularly in ASEAN. It aims to provide thought leadership and act as a one-stop center for Sustainable Finance in ASEAN through collaborations with governments, regulators, central banks, multilateral development banks, industry, academia, and non-governmental organizations.

In addition to the regular updates on the ABMF activities, the 40th ABMF Meeting will discuss the following issues: