Financial markets

• Mandate
• Committee Chair‌

The objective of the Committee is to promote efficient, open, stable and sound financial systems, based on high levels of transparency, confidence, and integrity, so as to contribute to sustainable and inclusive growth.

In supporting this objective, the Committee seeks to promote the contribution of financial institutions, including institutional investors, and capital markets to savings and investment, to finance economic growth. It contributes to the enhancement of policy approaches in the financial sector; such as to promote efficient and transparent public debt markets. It promotes effective financial education and consumer protection to enhance financial inclusion.  The Committee engages in efforts to:

• develop proactive surveillance of financial developments and in-depth analysis of the implications of evolving financial structures on economic growth and market stability;
  
  
• engage in policy dialogue, including with Committee delegates through semi-annual Committee meetings, and also between public and private sector participants through financial roundtables in Paris and Tokyo, and global fora on fintech and sustainable finance;
  
  
• promote good practices through legal policy instruments, including the Committee’s Framework for Effective and Efficient Financial Regulation.

October 2022 - This presentation reflects the Committee’s current surveillance of global financial markets and risk transmission mechanisms amid market conditions characterised by elevated inflation, slowing global growth and high geopolitical risks. 

• April 2022
  
• October 2021
  
• April 2021
  
• February 2021
• October 2020 
• June 2020 
• April 2020
  

Financial Markets & Intermediation

‌The Committee engages in global financial surveillance and analysis of financial markets and intermediation to assess which frameworks and policies are effectively contributing to economic growth.

• Assessment of government crisis programmes to support businesses
• Structural Developments in Global Financial Intermediation
• Business and Finance Outlook
• Sovereign Borrowing Outlook
• Financial Sector Guarantees

FinTech & Digitalisation of Finance

‌The Committee asseses developments in financial technologies that impact markets and the financial sector, and how the adoption of innovative technologies, such as through the digitalisation of finance, can contribute to economic growth.

• AI, Machine Learning and Big Data in Finance

• Regulatory Approaches to the Tokenisation of Assets

• The Tokenisation of Assets and Potential Implications for Financial Markets

• Digitalisation and Finance

• ICOs for SME Financing

Sustainable Finance

‌Sustainable finance is essential to the long-term value that underpins inclusive growth. Developments in sustainable finance need to achieve high levels of transparency, confidence and integrity to ensure that the system is stable and sound.

• Environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing
• Real estate finance and climate transition

• The OECD Infrastructure Platform

The OECD Infrastructure Platform

Infrastructure is complex, long-term by nature, and involves numerous risks and stakeholders. The OECD Infrastructure Platform provides access to guidance, good practices, data and analysis to support policy makers in the pursuit of sustainable and quality infrastructure.

The OECD Debt Transparency Initiative

‌Launched following the outbreak of COVID-19, this Initiative collects, analyses and reports on private sector lending to vulnerable low-income countries, thereby allowing interested stakeholders to benefit from a better understanding of the public sector debt levels and conditions of vulnerable countries.