The meeting took place at the NBC’s [National Bank of Cambodia] Wat Phnom headquarters as part of an official visit by the PNG [Papua New Guinea] delegation to learn from Cambodia’s experience in modernising its financial system, particularly the development of interbank and digital payment infrastructure.
Despite external turbulence, the figures paint a reassuring picture. The combined assets of Cambodia’s banking and financial institutions have soared to nearly $100 billion, highlighting the underlying strength of the domestic financial sector.
According to a report by NBC, total assets rose by 7.3 percent to 388.5 trillion riels ($97.1 billion) in the first half of 2025. Customer loans increased by 2.9 percent to 247.3 trillion riels ($61.8 billion), while deposits surged by 14.5 percent to 245.9 trillion riels ($61.5 billion). Capital also expanded by 5.3 percent to 41.2 trillion riels ($10.3 billion).
Cambodia’s financial network has continued to broaden, comprising 59 commercial banks, four microfinance deposit-taking institutions (MDIs), eight specialised banks, 85 non-deposit microfinance institutions (MFIs), 13 financial leasing firms, 112 rural credit institutions, four third-party processors, 29 payment service providers, one credit information-sharing company, five foreign representative offices and 3,407 foreign exchange businesses.
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501827856/nbc-shares-digital-banking-experience-with-png-central-bank/
See also: Papua New Guinea’s Digital Transformation: Progress in context with regional peers
“[…] PNG’s journey, alongside parallel efforts in Fiji, Vanuatu, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, and Tonga, represents a collective Pacific response to the digital imperative.”