Progress Report on Establishing a Regional Settlement Intermediary and Next Steps

Download or read book Progress Report on Establishing a Regional Settlement Intermediary and Next Steps written by Asian Development Bank and published by Asian Development Bank. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This progress report developed by the Cross-Border Settlement Infrastructure Forum (CSIF), composed of the central banks and central securities depositories in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the People's Republic of China, Japan, and the Republic of Korea---collectively known as ASEAN+3, is an important step for the establishment of Central Securities Depository-Real-Time Gross Settlement (CSD-RTGS) Linkages as a regional settlement intermediary in the region. The report shows the desktop study results between the Bank of Japan and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority aiming to create a common model for the linkages. The report also sets out the implementation road map for establishment of CSD-RTGS Linkages. As secretariat of the CSIF, the Asian Development Bank supports this initiative.