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News & Events
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07-Feb-2011
This article looks at the types of risks that may be associated with complex financial groups and analyses the available policy options for satisfying the core policy objectives of safety and soundness, systemic stability, and conduct of business.
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03-Feb-2011
Europe has been beset by an interrelated banking crisis and sovereign debt crisis. Bond spreads faced by Greece and Ireland, and to a lesser extent Portugal followed by Spain, have increased. This paper explores these issues from the perspective of financial markets, focusing mainly on these 4 countries.
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21-Dec-2010
Representatives of the financial services sector met in October 2010 to discuss sovereign debt challenges faced by banking systems and bond markets. This article summarises these discussions which covered the current outlook and risks - including capital flows and global rebalancing, sovereign risks and challenges for the banking sector.
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21-Dec-2010
Southeast Asian economies have shown considerable resilience during the current global financial and economic crisis due to national and regional policy responses to the Asian Crisis of 1997/98 that improved the soundness of banking systems, strengthened frameworks to deal with foreign currency liquidity problems, and developed bond markets. This paper discusses the economies and financial systems of Southeast Asia, focusing on current challenges and developments in the region.
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10-Dec-2010
Systemic financial crises are a recurrent phenomenon. This country comparison highlights the “funding gap” left by deposit insurance arrangements and finds that systemic crisis resolution funds, together with strengthened failure resolution powers, are adequate to help fill the gap.
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25-Oct-2010
The third OECD Sovereign Borrowing Outlook finds that OECD governments are facing ongoing challenges in the markets for government securities as a result of continued strong borrowing activity amid concerns about the pace of recovery and sovereign risk.
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23-Sep-2010
Protecting retirement income derived from DC pension plans requires carefully designed default investment strategies. This article assesses the relative performance of different investment strategies for different structures of the payout phase, focusing on life-cycle strategies.
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10-Sep-2010
Withdrawal of policy stimulus and sovereign risk were singled out as the two biggest concerns for investors at the 11th OECD-WBG-IMF Global Bond Market Forum. This article summarises the discussions and addresses the challenges of measuring sovereign risk, the need for more reliable indicators of sovereign risk and how sovereign issuers have been forced to modify their borrowing strategies.
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10-Sep-2010
The various existing methods for calculating short-term borrowing requirements can result in distorted estimates. This article proposes a new method that yields economically meaningful results that can also be used to make cross-country comparisons.
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13-Aug-2010
This working paper summarises the recently completed EU stress test for banks and, using new data on bank exposures to sovereign debt, appraises the way the tests have treated the sovereign debt crisis. It comments on market concerns about banking sector exposure to sovereign debt during and beyond the period of the stress test.
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Events
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from 14-Dec-2004 to 15-Dec-2004
This workshop, held in Paris, France, focused on five issues: overview of mortgage markets in the region; effective housing finance systems for the low-income market; safety and soundness of mortgage markets; innovations in mortgage insurance; and development of different secondary mortgage markets and instruments.
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