Financial Inclusion Innovative Summit

Financial Inclusion Innovation Summit (FIIS), previously known as the Pacific Microfinance Week (PMW), is a three-day event that will include a formal conference, workshops, field visits, seminars, and roundtables, providing the region’s most comprehensive platform on Financial Inclusion for the Pacific’s financial sector stakeholders. Hosted by the Bank of Papua New Guinea, this event will bring together up to 200 participants from across the region and beyond to discuss and debate pertinent issues impacting financial inclusion in the region.

In 2017 the event is marking its 10th Anniversary as the major multi-sector gathering of financial inclusion stakeholders in the Pacific and is recognised as a landmark event, over many years covering relevant topics, issues, innovations and world-leading case studies in Financial Inclusion. It attracts participants ranging from financial sector regulators, microfinance practitioners, advocates, academic institutions, donor agencies, international financial institutions, NGOs, domestic government agencies and others.

At FIIS 2017, delegates will access innovations, share knowledge, network and engage in technical exchanges to further the effective, efficient and sustainable delivery of financial services within the unique constraints of the region. It attracts participants ranging from financial sector regulators, microfinance practitioners, advocates, academic institutions, donor agencies, international financial institutions, NGOs, domestic government agencies and others. For more information about the event visit http://www.microfinance-pasifika.org/event/financial-inclusion-innovation-summit-2017/.

Papua New Guinea Macro-economical & Fiscal Framework

This three-day workshop will bring together analysts from the Bank of Papua New Guinea, the Departments of Finance and Treasury, the Internal Revenue Commission, and the National Statistics Office to review the core structure of the upgraded FPP framework, identify areas for further development including additional data sources, and sharing of forecasting methodology of key variables such as inflation, gross domestic product (GDP), revenue collections, and foregone revenue from tax concessions