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Duties and Responsibilities of Boards in Company Groups

Supporting businesses in financial distress to avoid insolvency during the COVID-19 crisis

This policy note provides an overview of such measures that individually or in combination may be used to bridge the financing gap for the corporate sector and make sure that productive capacity is maintained to support the recovery from the COVID-19 crisis.

National corporate governance related initiatives during the COVID-19 crisis

This note provides an overview of some corporate governance and capital markets-related measures that 37 jurisdictions have taken in response to the economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 outbreak.

Equity injections and unforeseen state ownership of enterprises during the COVID-19 crisis

This policy brief addresses government measures regarding state-ownership in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.

Implementing the OECD Guidelines on Corporate Governance of State-Owned Enterprises: Review of Recent Developments

Corporate Bond Market Trends, Emerging Risks and Monetary Policy

18/02/2020 - After a return to more expansionary monetary policies in early 2019, the world’s non-financial corporations borrowed an additional USD 2.1 trillion in the form of corporate bonds. Adding this to the unprecedented build-up of corporate bond debt since 2008 means that the global outstanding stock of non-financial corporate bonds at the end of 2019 reached an all-time high of USD 13.5 trillion. Read the full report.

OECD Capital Market Review of Italy

This capital market review of Italy offers policy recommendations to improve the Italian institutional and regulatory framework in a way that will give Italian business better access to funding and households more opportunities to diversify their savings.

OECD Review of the Corporate Governance of State-Owned Enterprises in Bulgaria

This report evaluates the corporate governance framework for the Bulgarian state-owned enterprise sector relative to the OECD Guidelines on Corporate Governance of State-Owned Enterprises. The report was prepared at the request of Bulgaria. It is based on discussions involving all OECD countries.

OECD Equity Market Review of Asia

27/11/2019 - Stock exchanges in Asia have emerged as the world's fastest growing trading venues for listed stocks and several domestic investment banks in the region are becoming global actors. This annual review follows and analyses trends in Asian public equity markets.

Who are the owners of the world’s listed companies and why should we care?

There are approximately 41 000 listed companies in the world with a combined market value of more than USD 80 trillion. This is equivalent to the global GDP. More than half of this amount is held by institutional investors and the public sector, according to a new OECD report.