2025 China-ASEAN Financial Exchange Conference opens in Nanning

The 2025 China-ASEAN Financial Exchange Conference kicked off in Nanning on July 23. Attendees gathered to explore cross-border financial support for high-quality development in the China-ASEAN region.

Participants included representatives from China's central bank, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, central banks of ASEAN nations like Laos, and Guangxi authorities. The event featured updates from the Belt and Road Bankers Roundtable (BRBR), initiated by ICBC in 2017.

Thailand's Bangkok Bank was named foreign lead of BRBR's inclusive finance working group, with new members from ASEAN, China, Japan and ROK joining.

Over the course of two days, experts from the central bank, ICBC and Shanghai Jiao Tong University explored local currency settlement, cross-border credit cooperation, e-commerce payments, and AI in finance.