ADB ECONOMISTS SAY ASEAN WILL NOT PURSUE A SINGLE CURRENCY

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March 11, 2013

MANILA - The ASEAN Economic Community will focus on financial integration as it moves towards the realisation of its goal by 2015, but it is not pursuing the creation of a single currency, according to Asian Development Bank economists. Ramesh Subramaniam, the ADB’s senior director at the Office of Regional Economic Integration (OREI), says cross-border asset holdings have been on the rise, and that "there is active engagement of the private sector through the ASEAN+3 Bond Market Initiative, for example”.