The Mexican Institute of Financial Executives (IMEF) is a founding member of the International Association of Financial Executives Institutes (IAFEI)[1] and takes credit for research papers and articles with both Mexican and international authors.
[citation needed] In the years 1971, 1981, 1991, 2001 and 2012 IMEF hosted of the annual IAFEI World Congress.
The Mexican Institute of Financial Executives created, in a joint venture with the Mexican government agency, the INEGI, the IMEF Index for Business Environment (Spanish: Indicador IMEF del Entorno Empresarial) (IIEEM) making it the first private sector index which has the technical regulation and support of a public institution in México.
The IIEEM emulates the methodology of that in the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) of United States.
In 1984 the IMEF research foundation awarded the first prize for the IMEF-EY International Award, with the objective to promote and encourage research on topics of interest to the macro-financial environment, as well as business and public finance in Mexico and Latin America.