Editor’s Note
Welcome to our first Issue of the E-Guardian for 2011. In 2010, we were challenged with some of the new initiatives we undertook but we successfully accomplished most of what we set out to do. In the process we also began building good relationships with our stakeholders and partners.
We began the year saying farewell to our Chief Manager, Mr. Filimone Waqabaca, who left the Group for a 3 year secondment at the Ministry of Finance as its Permanent Secretary.
In early March we organised a National Microfinance Workshop that concluded with important key action plans for 2011-13. We also organised a 1 week microfinance exposition around our maritime zone and covered Savusavu, Taveuni, Koro, Levuka and Gau.
Also in March, the RBF approved the University of the South Pacific (USP) Bachelor of Commerce (Finance) programme as a pre-requisite for licensing in the capital markets. We wish USP School of Accounting well in this endeavour and look forward to building on this partnership in other areas of financial systems development.