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Open Banking in Vietnam Is On Track to Become Widely-Adopted, but Lags Behind More Developed Southeast Asian Countries
March 9, 2021 @ 11:45 pm By Omar Faridi
Vietnamese banks are becoming a lot more aware of Open Banking policies and are beginning to realize that they should look into leveraging open APIs in order to remain relevant in the evolving digital financial services sector.
There are at least two local banks in Vietnam that have introduced developer portals and are now offering open APIs. The Asia Commercial Joint Stock Bank (ACB) and Orient Commercial Joint Stock Bank (OCB) in Vietnam have developed Open Banking solutions (that went live in January of last year).
Palau upholds gender equality, social inclusion in disaster risk management
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Palau has taken concrete action to leave no one behind in its disaster risk management efforts. Forty-two (42) staff (21 women and 21 men) from the public sector and civil society organisations who engage in national and community disaster risk management in Palau received training to integrate a gender, age, disability and cultural perspective in policies and practices of disaster risk management.
The two-day workshop was opened in the capital Koror on Wednesday 10 February 2021 by Palau’s National Emergency Management Office (NEMO), Bureau of Ageing, Disability and Gender (BADG), and the UN Development Programme (UNDP). This was in partnership with Palau Red Cross, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), the Pacific Community (SPC), and Omekesang Association of Palau, a civil society organisation working for the rights of persons with disabilities.
Uniting against authoritarianism: a blueprint for the Quad
Scott Morrison with his Japanese counterpart Yoshihide Suga (Kiyoshi Ota/Pool Photo via AP)
Following the changing of the guard in the White House, a re-energised Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) linking the US, Japan, India and Australia needs to prepare itself to face serious global tensions in this year and beyond.
The Quad will have to deal with the erosion of liberal democratic values under pressure from authoritarian priorities as an ascendant China, supported by Russia, seeks to alter the fabric of the established world. Multilateral institutions such as the World Health Organization, United Nations and World Trade Organization now find themselves as ‘contested space’.
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