This publication provides you with timely analyses and statistics on financial matters of topical interest or longer-term developments in specific financial sectors.  It appears twice a year with each issue providing a brief update of trends and prospects in the international and major domestic financial markets.

Among the topics that are regulatly featered in this publication are:

• Structural and regulatory developments in OECD financial systems
• Financial sector statistics,
• Trends in foreign direct investment and
• Trends in privatisation

Periodically, a small number of articles within one field of financial sector developments – the so-called "special focus" for the particular issue – may be included.  The periodical is for policy makers, economists, business communities and the corporate sector.