This is the report of the Joint Regional Symposium convened by the Australian APEC Study Centre at RMIT University (AASC) and the Association of Development Financing Institutions in Asia and the Pacific (ADFIAP) from June 27-28 in Manila, the Philippines, sponsored and funded by AusAID under the PLSP APEC linkages program. The objective of the Symposium was to develop “concrete best practice proposals for regulatory andsupervisory approaches based on participant and expert experiences, international standards andidentified challenges that would give banks and financial institutions as well as other capital marketplayers a higher level of comfort in financing MSMEs, whilst also addressing the challenges facingMSMEs in accessing finance”.