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Financial Consumer Protection

 

2-3 July 2019 - Nepal
Understanding and responding to the impact of demographic changes for financial consumers

The Conference will bring together high-level government officials and experts from public authorities, including regulatory and supervisory authorities, ministries of finance, officials of state governments and international organisations, standard setter bodies, as well as the academic community, the private sector and NGOs. It will be followed by a roundtable open only to public authorities.
 
The ageing population and the increase in longevity present challenges and opportunities across many countries, such as financially preparing people for ageing, supporting access to relevant financial products and services and protecting older people from financial abuse.  To strengthen financial inclusion in the ageing society, the OECD and the Global Partnership on Financial Inclusion developed the G20 Fukuoka Policy Priorities on Aging and Financial Inclusion, which was endorsed by G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors at their meeting in Fukuoka, Japan on 8-9 June 2019.

The global financial crisis highlighted the need for more effective financial consumer protection measures as consumers face more sophisticated and complex financial markets. The availability of information has grown both in quantity and complexity and the pace of change, in terms of new product developments, product innovations, and technological advances, has increased dramatically.

 

Building and maintaining consumer confidence and trust in financial markets promotes efficiency and stability and helps to create positive outcomes for both financial institutions and their customers.

 

The OECD is working on how to enhance financial consumer protection, which includes determining what is required to help consumers gain the confidence, knowledge, information, security and choices they need to enable them to fully participate in financial markets.

MEETINGS

ASIC-OECD Asia/Pacific Financial Consumer Protection Seminar, 28 September 2017, Melbourne, Australia

 

SEBI-OECD Asia Seminar: Emerging Trends in Financial Consumer Protection Across Asia, 4-5 February 2016, Mumbai, India

 

OECD/FCA conference on consumer financial protection, London, 23-24 September 2015

 

G20-World Bank-OECD conference on empowering consumers of financial products and services, Moscow, 15-16 June 2013

 

Seminar on the evolution of financial consumer protection and education in Asia, 13-14 December, Hong Kong-China

 

DOCUMENTS AND LINKS

G20 Fukuoka Policy Priorities on Aging and Financial Inclusion, prepared by the OECD and the Global Partnership on Financial Inclusion, under the Japanese G20 Presidency, June 2019

 

Behavioural economics and financial consumer protection

 

Financial Literacy and Consumer Protection: Overlooked Aspects of the Crisis / français

 

Policy Framework for Effective and Efficient Financial Regulation: General Guidance and High-Level Checklist | français

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G20/OECD Task Force on Financial Consumer Protection

The Task Force is currently focused on supporting the implementation of the High-level Principles.

G20 High-level Principles on Financial Consumer Protection

In February 2011, the G20 called on the OECD, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) and other relevant international organisations to develop common principles on consumer protection in the field of financial services. These principles were endorsed at the G20 meeting on 14-15 October 2011.

Effective approaches to support the implementation of the remaining G20 High-Level Principles of Financial Consumer Protection and addendum, submitted to G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors, Cairns, 21 September 2014

 

Update report on effective approaches to support the implementation of the High-level Principles and Annex, submitted to the G20 Saint Petersburg Summit on 5-6 September 2013

 

G20 High-level Principles on Financial Consumer Protection

 

G20 finance ministers agree new principles to boost financial consumer protection | version française

 

Communiqué of the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors, 15 October 2011

 

Speeches by Angel Gurría at the G20-OECD High-level seminar on financial consumer protection, 14 October 2011

 

Angel Gurría speaks to G20 about financial consumer protection, 4 November 2011, Cannes

 

Online public consultation on draft high-level principles on financial consumer protection 1-31 August 2011

 

 

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