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Assessment of government crisis programmes to support businesses

This issue note from the latest OECD Economic Outlook reviews the design of government programmes to support business cash-flow needs to evaluate whether the scope addresses the crisis financing needs of business to support economic growth.
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Structural Developments in Global Financial Intermediation

This paper examines global credit intermediation through the lens of financial markets and financial intermediaries in the post-crisis period during which highly accommodative monetary policies contributed to investors’ search for yield.
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Policy Brief: Global Financial Markets responses to COVID-19

As the impact of COVID-19 erodes market and business confidence, financial authorities are encouraged to implement early and ambitious policy responses in their respective jurisdictions.
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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.

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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