OECD’s twice-yearly journal providing timely analyses and statistics on financial matters of topical interest and longer-term developments in specific financial sectors. Each issue provides a brief update of trends and prospects in the international and major domestic financial markets along with articles covering such topics as structural and regulatory developments in OECD financial systems, trends in foreign direct investment, trends in privatization, and financial sector statistics covering areas such as bank profitability, insurance, and institutional investors.
Periodically, a small number of articles within one field of financial sector developments – constituting the so-called special focus for the particular issue – may be included.
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.
