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The OECD Working Party on Public Debt Management holds annual meetings which bring together debt managers from OECD countries.

The 2010 annual meeting took place on 4-5 October with discussions focusing on:

• debt structure and risk metrics
• crisis experiences and lessons for debt management from the OECD area
• measuring sovereign risk
  

The 2009 annual meeting took place on 21-22 October with discussions focusing on:

• the impact of guarantees and re-lending on the operations by DMOs
• expansion and maintenance of investor bases 
• rating issues
• secondary market liquidity, the scope and usefulness of market-making (MM) obligations and the role of repo markets
• survey on the use of derivatives by local authorities

The 2008 annual meeting took place on 14-15 October with discussions focusing on:

• sovereign asset liability management
• the impact of international investors on domestic government bond markets
• changes in the use of short-term government paper
  

For further information about these meetings, please contact jocelene.fouassier@oecd.org.