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OECD's journal on financial markets. In addition to reviewing recent trends, this issue includes articles on prospects for national capital markets, government systems for collective investment schemes, moral hazard, and new financial statistics.

OECD's journal on financial markets. In addition to the usual assessment of recent trends, this issue includes a special focus on Offshore Financial Practices, Non-Co-operative Jurisdictions and Harmful Tax Practices as well as an article on FDI in China.

OECD's journal on financial markets. This issue featues articles on recent trends in financial markets, privatisation trends, international financial contagion, and main changes in the financial structure of the Euro Zone. It also features institutional investors and insurance data.

OECD's journal on financial markets. In addition to the analysis of recent developments, this issue includes a feature on government debt management and articles on trade in financial services, regulation of investments by insurance companies and pension funds, mergers and acquisitions and more.

OECD's journal on financial markets. In addition to its regular assessment of recent development, this issue includes articles on securitisation, fixed-income securities markets, international insurance operations, tax distortions to cross-border portfolio investment, and more.

OECD's journal on financial markets. In addition to the report on recent developments in financial markets, this issue includes articles on highly leveraged investors, corporate governance, interest rate swaps and debt management in Denmark, and more.

OECD's journal on financial markets. In addition to the analysis of recent trends, this issue includes articles on challenges for the euro area, reforming the Korean banking system, shrinking a government bond market, and privatisation trends.

OECD's journal on international financial markets. This issue includes articles on recent developments, structural and regulatory developments, financial market implications of ageing populations, financial security of private pension systems, development of capital markets in Asia, and FDI.

OECD's journal on international financial markets. In addition to it's assessment of recent developments, this issue includes article on ageing populations, trends in FDI, the development of securities markets in transition economies, and structural and regulatory developments.

OECD's Journal on financial markets. In addition to the usuual survery of recent developments, this issue includes chapters on shareholder value and the market in corporate control and on the new banking landscape in Central and Eastern Europe.

Financial Market Trends provides, three times each year, an assessment of trends and prospects in the international and major domestic financial markets of the OECD area. Each issue includes comprehensive commentary, statistics, and graphs on current developments in internationally syndicated medium-term euro-credits, other international bank lending, euro-bonds and traditional foreign bond issues, and a review of monetary and financial trends in major OECD Member countries. This issue's special features cover the Impact of Institutional Investors on OECD Financial Markets and the annual report of the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering.

OECD's three-time-yearly report on financial markets in its Member countries. This issue's special report focuses on recent trends in foreign direct investment. There are also some new statistics on institutional investment in OECD countries.

OECD's three-times-yearly analysis of trends and developments in national and international financial markets. This issue's special feature covers recent trends in privatisation.

This report, prepared at the request of Deputies of the G10, reviews economic consequences of ageing populations for financial markets and recommends that a) governments help facilitate development of financial instruments to support retirement savings and pensions; b) governments strengthen regulation and supervision of these markets; c) tax rules should not hinder the build-up of financial buffers by private pension funds, but should avoid the abuse of tax deferrals; and  d) financial education needs to be strengthened.

Disasters present a broad range of human, social, financial, economic and environmental impacts, with potentially long-lasting, multi-generational effects. The financial management of these impacts is a key challenge for individuals and governments in developed and developing countries. G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors and APEC Finance Ministers have recognised the importance and priority of disaster risk management strategies and, in particular, disaster risk assessment and risk financing. The OECD has supported the development of strategies for the financial management of natural and man-made disaster risks, under the guidance of the OECD High-Level Advisory Board on Financial Management of Large-scale Catastrophes and the OECD Insurance and Private Pensions Committee. This work has included the elaboration of an OECD Recommendation on Good Practices for Mitigating and Financing Catastrophic Risks and a draft Recommendation on Disaster Risk Financing Strategies  The Financial Management of Flood Risk extends this work by applying the lessons from the OECD’s analysis of disaster risk financing practices and the development of its guidance to the specific case of floods.

This report applies the lessons from the OECD’s analysis of disaster risk financing practices and the guidance in the OECD Recommendation on Disaster Risk Financing Strategies to the specific case of earthquakes. It provides an overview of the approaches that economies facing various levels of earthquake risk and economic development have taken to managing the financial impacts of earthquakes.

The financial management of disaster risks, such as floods, earthquakes, cyclones, terrorist attacks, cyberattacks and pandemics, remains a key public policy challenge for governments around the world, particularly those faced with significant exposures to such risks and/or limited capacity to manage the financial impacts. This short report provides a brief overview of the key findings and lessons from the last five years of OECD work3 on the financial management of disaster risks

This 2020 report presents the results of a survey of levels of financial literacy in the South East European countries of Bulgaria, Croatia, Georgia, Republic of North Macedonia;, Moldova, Montenegro, and Romania. In addition to calculating globally comparable financial literacy scores, the analysis covers financial inclusion and elements of financial well-being, paying particular attention to attributes of individual financial resilience. The report then makes policy recommendations based on the findings.

This report reviews existing financial education initiatives in Poland, including their coverage and effectiveness when possible. Based on OECD analysis of available research and taking relevant international good practices into account, it identifies financial literacy needs and gaps in financial education provision to support the development of a national strategy for financial education in Poland.