Background
The Financial Technology Center established within the Non-Banking Financial Services Authority (NBFSA) performs coordination and technical review functions for fintech initiatives that affect non-bank financial institutions. The Non-Banking Financial Services Authority (NBFSA) hosts a FinTech Center that coordinates financial-technology initiatives affecting non-bank financial institutions.
The 2026–2028 three-year action plan sets a time-bound roadmap for development and implementation of financial-technology initiatives in the non-banking financial sector. The draft action plan is being aligned with the broader Cambodian Financial Technology Development Policy to ensure institutional and policy coherence across regulators and technical committees.
Key Developments
On 9 July 2026 the FinTech Center of the NBFSA convened a review meeting at the Financial Technology Center to discuss the final draft of the 2026–2028 three-year action plan under the Strategic Plan for the Development of Financial Technology in the non-banking sector. The meeting took place with permission from H.E. Bou Tharin, Director General of the Accounting and Auditing Regulator (ACAR), and was chaired by H.E. So Sophea, Director of the FinTech Center.
Attendees included Mr. Chor Rathana, Chief of the IT Office of the Accounting and Auditing Regulator, technical officials from the FinTech Center, regulators under the NBFSA, and representatives from the Secretariat of the Committee on Science, Technology and Digital (CSTD). The stated objectives were to review and discuss the final draft to make the action plan more complete, comprehensive, and implementable, and to ensure consistency with the three-year action plan of the national Financial Technology Development Policy for 2026–2028.
Institutional Role
The Accounting and Auditing Regulator (ACAR) participated through senior permission and attendance by IT office leadership, indicating cross-agency engagement in fintech planning. Representatives from the Secretariat of the Committee on Science, Technology and Digital were present to provide technical coordination between regulatory planning and national digital-technology policy bodies.
Implications for Stakeholders
The review process documents an administrative step in refining a sector-specific implementation roadmap for fintech in the non-banking sector and signals coordinated planning among financial regulators and digital policy committees. Stakeholders should monitor subsequent publication of the final action plan for specific timelines, responsibilities, and programmatic measures that will guide implementation.
