{"id":1041,"date":"2024-09-05T04:48:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T04:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.bankingkhabar.com\/?p=1041"},"modified":"2024-09-05T08:05:39","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T08:05:39","slug":"leadership-of-sarfi-handed-over-to-nepal-rastra-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.bankingkhabar.com\/?p=1041","title":{"rendered":"Leadership of SARFI Handed Over to Nepal Rastra Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bankingkhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/maha.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Banking Khabar\/<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The leadership of the South Asian Regional Financial Inclusion Initiative (SARFI) has been transferred to Nepal Rastra Bank. With this transfer, Governor Maha Prasad Adhikari of the bank has been selected as the new chairperson of SARFI.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The handover took place during the ongoing &#8220;Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI) Global Policy Forum&#8221; held in San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador, which began on 2nd September 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 15th SARFI Leaders&#8217; Roundtable, held on Wednesday as part of the forum, formally transferred SARFI&#8217;s leadership to Nepal Rastra Bank. Governor Adhikari attended the meeting virtually and took over as chairperson.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the same meeting, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) was chosen as the vice-chair of SARFI. Previously, the Maldives Monetary Authority held the leadership of SARFI, while Governor Adhikari had served as its vice-chair.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SARFI was established during the 12th meeting of the Global Policy Forum held in Dead Sea, Jordan, in September 2022. Central banks from Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka are members of this network.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The initiative was created with the goals of promoting financial inclusion through regional knowledge exchange, capacity building, joint learning practices, technical assistance, and the implementation of global and regional best practices<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.bankingkhabar.com\/?attachment_id=1042\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1042\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1042\" src=\"https:\/\/english.bankingkhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/SARFI.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1354\" height=\"1915\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.bankingkhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/SARFI.png 1354w, https:\/\/english.bankingkhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/SARFI-212x300.png 212w, https:\/\/english.bankingkhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/SARFI-724x1024.png 724w, https:\/\/english.bankingkhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/SARFI-768x1086.png 768w, https:\/\/english.bankingkhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/SARFI-1086x1536.png 1086w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1354px) 100vw, 1354px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banking Khabar\/ The leadership of the South Asian Regional Financial Inclusion Initiative (SARFI) has been transferred to Nepal Rastra Bank. With this transfer, Governor Maha Prasad Adhikari of the bank has been selected as the new chairperson of SARFI. The handover took place during the ongoing &#8220;Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI) Global Policy Forum&#8221; held [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14,3],"tags":[103,104,102,107,108,106,105,100,101],"class_list":["post-1041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking-khabar","category-banking-khabar-banking-khabar","category-main-news","tag-alliance-for-fianancial-inclusion","tag-el-salvador","tag-global-policy-forum","tag-governor","tag-maha-prasad-adhikari","tag-nepal-rastra-bank","tag-san-salvador","tag-sarfi","tag-south-asian-regional-financial-inclusion-initiative"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Leadership of SARFI Handed Over to Nepal Rastra Bank - 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