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COVID-19 Government Financing Support Programmes for Businesses

This report offers a review of various forms of government financing support programmes for businesses, and explores how they have been applied during the current crisis.
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ESG Investing: Practices, Progress and Challenges

This report provides an overview of concepts, assessments, and conducts quantitative analysis to shed light on both the progress and challenges with respect to the current state of ESG investing.
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ESG Investing Environmental Pillar Scoring Reporting

This report assesses the landscape of criteria and measurement within the E pillar of ESG investing to better understand the extent to which E scores reflect outputs such as carbon emissions and core metrics that capture the negative effects of business activities on the environment, and to understand the impact of climate change to businesses.
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OECD work on financial markets

OECD work on financial markets promotes efficient, open, stable and sound market-oriented financial systems, based on high levels of transparency, confidence, and integrity.

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Committee on Financial Markets

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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, Committee seeks to promote the contribution of financial institutions, including institutional investors, and capital markets to savings and investment, to finance economic growth. It also contributes to the enhancement of policy approaches in the financial sector; such as to promote efficient and transparent public debt markets. As well, it promotes effective financial education and consumer protection to enhance financial inclusion. In order to achieve these objectives, 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.

The Impact of COVID-19 on the Financial Resilience of Global Markets

This presentation reflects the Committee’s current surveillance of global financial markets and risk transmission mechanisms related to the economic and financial consequences of COVID-19.

June 2020 (PPT)
April 2020 (PPT)

Areas of Work

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.

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.

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.

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