Reporting to Finance Ministers, a Finance Deputies' Meeting (SOM) has been held at irregular intervals.  For coordination purposes, ASEM finance officials also meet regularly at a "Core Group Meeting", held in Washington on the margins of the spring and autumn WB / IMF meetings

• 1st ASEM Finance Deputies Meeting (London, 5 February 1998)
• 2nd ASEM Finance Deputies Meeting (Vienna, 18 December 1999)
• 3rd ASEM Finance Deputies Meeting (Paris, 14 September 2000)
• 4th ASEM Finance Deputies Meeting (Tokyo, 15 December 2000)