9th ADB Business Opportunities Fair

Finance Sector – SDCC

presentation by: Shigehiro Shinozaki, Financial
Sector Specialist, SDSC-FIN

14 March 2018
What We Do
FSG Secretariat Operational Support
• Standing country • Processing
team member • Team member
• Peer review
• MRMs, SRMs,
ICMs, Board
meetings

CPS/ RCS/ Preparation

COBP and Approval

Completion/
Implementation
Evaluation

• XARRs, PCRs, • Implementing team

TCRs member

COBP = Country Operational Business Plan; CPS = Country Partnership Strategy; ICM = Investment Committee Meeting;
MRM = Management Review Meeting; PCR = Project Completion Report; RCS = Regional Cooperation Strategy; SRM =
Staff Review Meeting; TCR = Technical Assistance Completion Report; XARR = Extended Annual Review Report
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Focus Areas

Key Areas of Focus Key Trends

• Infrastructure Finance • Digital technologies

and Investment Funds
• Green finance
• Finance Sector
Development • Disaster risk insurance

• Inclusive Finance

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Achievements 2017

Total
Committed
Lending* $2.8 billion
($ million)
3000

2500 463

2000 558

1500
185 823
615 2,302
1000
1,701

500 1,138 268

783 787
427
0
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Commitment-Public Sector Commitment- Private Sector

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Achievements 2017

Lending by Key Areas of Focus (volume)

Approvals Commitment
2016 2017 2017
Infrastructure Finance and
10% 12%
16% Investment Funds

28%
31%
Finance Sector Development
41%

62%
56% Inclusive Finance
43%

2016
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 Learning and Development
2017
Work shops, brown bags,
Flagship event:
seminars and trainings
2nd Asia Finance Forum: workshops on insurance supervision
Fintech and Sustainable brown bag sessions
Development workshops on RegTech
8-10 November 2017, ADB HQ and Blockchain Technology
Attended by over 300 participants
representing 29 DMCs

Policy dialogue,
Financial cooperation standard setting bodies
and integration and partnerships
APEC Financial Standard setting bodies
Regulators Training • IOSCO, IAIS, IFSB, IAA
Initiative New partnerships
7 training seminars in 2017 • ICMA, AFI
Attended by 289 participants
from 22 DMCs
• Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation

AFI = Alliance for Financial Inclusion; DMC = developing member country; IAA = International Actuarial Association; IAIS =
International Association of Insurance Supervisors; ICMA = International Capital Market Association; IFSB = Islamic Financial
Services Board; IOSCO = International Organization of Securities Commissions; RegTech = Regulatory Technology
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 Knowledge Products
2017
Developed 20 publications (books, reports, papers, briefs and conference
proceedings), 7 blogs, and a number of infographics, explainers and op-
eds, and brochures on financial inclusion, finance sector development and
infrastructure finance
Review of the Financial Sector Operational Plan
• Affirms that the FSOP remains valid and relevant, makes recommendations up to 2020,
and provides a platform to launch the FSOP beyond 2020 to ensure its relevance with
ADB’s road to 2030
Securitization in India
• Overview of infrastructure financing in India and suggests mechanism for securitizing the
infrastructure assets of public sector banks
Catalyzing Green Finance
• A key message in the ADB conceptualized Green Finance Catalyzing Facility is that the
financial system needs to be reoriented away from an economy based on traditional fossil
fuels to one in support of a green economy.
Accelerating Financial Inclusion in Southeast Asia with Digital Finance
• Developmental impact and regulatory issues pertaining to digital finance. Produced in
partnership with Oliver Wyman
ASEAN+3 Good Practices in Developing Bond Market
• Discussion of key building blocks of bond markets, particularly government bond
markets, sequencing of policy actions and successful efforts of selected countries
in developing them, which has been adopted as a good practice reference by
G20.
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2018-19 Key Activities

Finance Sector Pipeline 2018

(Volume, finance sector lending)

$2.8 billion
Infrastructure 14%
finance and
investment funds
14%
Finance Sector
Development

72%

Inclusive Finance
Includes firm projects only
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2018-19 Key Activities

2018 Spotlight Projects

PRC: Green Financing Catalyzing Facility, EARD (MFF)

Tranche 1: $100 million

PHI: Inclusive Finance Development Program, SERD (PBL)

$300 million

BAN: Housing Finance Development, SARD (Project)

$100 million

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2018-19 Key Activities
Georgia

Tablet based digital field

ADB Pilot Projects Using application
•
Digital Financial Technologies •
Facilitate processing of loans
Faster turn around time
• Digitization of records

Mongolia

Shared cloud based

platform
• Faster turnaround time
• Higher operational efficiencies
• Reduce cost of credit

Integrate non cash

Cloud technology Philippines
payment solutions
Cloud technology for
core banking
• Improve IT and enterprise risk
management capabilities
• Increase operational efficiency
• Improve capital usage

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ID as a social infrastructure
Actions
• Support with creating an enabling legal
Advantage of and regulatory environment
biometric • Capacity building and awareness building,
identification including regulatory technology and
Management cybersecurity
• Develop pilot projects
Security
• Unique individual Target projects
identification  Papua New Guinea: Innovative technology
• Mutimodal biometrics for Pilot project on ID BOX for Inclusive
for 100% accuracy Finance (2018)
 Pilot test an ID Box
Convenience  Support establishment of regulatory sandbox
• Easy installation  Capacity building and awareness building
and setup regulatory technology, cybersecurity
• Reduces paper work
 Philippines: Inclusive Finance
Return on investment Development Program, (2018)
• Lower administrative  TA supporting comprehensive assessment of
expenses digital national identification system for
increasing financial inclusion
• Prevents fraud and
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 Learning and Development
2018
Flagship Event
• Global Infrastructure Forum
– host organizer
– collaborate with MDBs, UN
13 October 2018, Bali Indonesia
(sidelines of IMF/WB annual meetings)
Knowledge products
• Project guidance notes
• Climate finance tracking for
finance sector operations
• Finance sector project
classification
• Finance sector results indicators
• Finance sector analysis
• Reports
• Disaster risk finance
• Green finance
• Infrastructure finance
Partnerships
• Knowledge partnerships
• Financing partnerships
Skills Gap Assessment
• Training, mentoring
• Staff sharing
• Expert pool: disaster risk
Insurance
Workshops
• Disaster risk finance
• Green finance
• Capital market development
• Basel Accords
• Blockchain
Financial Cooperation
and Integration
• Continue support for
FCI under ASEAN,
ASEAN+3 and APEC
initiatives
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 Contact person:
Lotte Schou-Zibell
Chief of Finance Sector Group
Lschouzibell@adb.org

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