Chea Serey is the new Deputy Governor of National Bank of Cambodia (NBC), according to the latest update on her official Facebook account on Wednesday. Earlier, she served as Director General of Central Banking at NBC.
Serey was instrumental in digitalisation and developing the Bakong system in Cambodia.
She took an active part in the digitalisation of the Khmer economy. Under her leadership, retail payment infrastructure has been modernised which led to a new electronic payment system based on QR codes.
As Director General, Serey spearheaded the crackdown on fraudulent microcredit institutions, which had multiplied since 1993 in Cambodia’s wartorn economy to help its slow recovery, becoming a huge presence in the redevelopment of the Cambodian economy, providing credit to urban and rural communities to help micro-enterprises.
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