In this regard, one step toward enhancing the resilience of the Asia-Pacific financial system is to further strengthen regional financial integration in such a way as to relieve the asymmetry between the degrees of financial and real integration. The initial target level for strengthening financial integration can be taken as that of regional trade integration.
10 See “The Five Presidents’ Report: Completing Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union”, a report prepared by J.-  C. Juncker, in close cooperation with D. Tusk, J. Dijsselbloem, M. Draghi and M. Schulz, 22 June 2015. 4/4  BIS central bankers' speeches