 The passport was first mentioned in the 2010 Johnson report by the Australian Financial Centre Forum.PwC released a report commissioned by the Australian Financial Services Council in November 2010, that provided a qualitative analysis of reception to the ARFP idea and potential upside.In partnership with Volguard, APEC published a quantitative study in July 2014, of the economic benefits and costs of the ARFP to the individual economies and the Asia region.