Actualités & Evénements

Financial Literacy and Consumer Protection: Overlooked Aspects of the Crisis - Release of OECD’s Recommendation on Good Practices on Financial Education and Awareness Relating to Credit

07-juil.-2009

Financial services firms must make sure their customers understand what they are letting themselves in for when they sign up for mortgages, consumer loans and other products, under new OECD guidelines designed to avoid a repeat of the sub-prime mortgage crisis and ensuing credit crunch that sent the world economy into recession.

Tougher rules needed to protect consumers, says OECD

07-juil.-2009

Financial services firms must make sure their customers understand what they are letting themselves in for when they sign up for mortgages, consumer loans and other products, under new OECD guidelines designed to avoid a repeat of the sub-prime mortgage crisis and ensuing credit crunch that sent the world economy into recession.

La soutenabilité du compte courant brésilien : une approche non linéaire

06-juil.-2009

Les fonctions de réponse suggèrent que la situation budgétaire initiale, ainsi que le signe et la magnitude du choc, jouent sur la réponse du compte courant aux variations non anticipées du revenu, des dépenses publiques et de l’investissement. En particulier, les réponses à un choc positif sur les dépenses publiques sont plus fortes en période d’expansion budgétaire (croissance des dépenses publiques) qu’en période de contraction.

Le Sommet du G8 examine des principes et normes pour les transactions commerciales mondiales

06-juil.-2009

L’un des points de l’agenda du sommet du G8 de cette semaine à L’Aquila portera sur un projet de nouvelle « Norme mondiale » pour les transactions commerciales internationales. Un groupe de travail italien a rédigé, avec l’assistance de l’OCDE, une liste de 12 « principes et normes communs » pour supporter ce projet. Pour favoriser l’examen des questions  soulevées par le projet de Norme mondiale, l’OCDE a lancé un blog qui invite les internautes à transmettre leurs commentaires

OECD research supports risk-sharing in private pension arrangements

23-juin-2009

A new article ("Evaluating Risk Sharing in Private Pension Plans") analyses the main trade-offs embedded in different pension arrangements. The stochastic simulations performed show that hybrid plans (those in between traditional DB and individual DC) appear to offer efficient and sustainable forms of risk sharing.

Financial Literacy and Consumer Protection: Overlooked Aspects of the Crisis

23-juin-2009

This report provides further information on the context in which the OECD has actively taken a leadership role in proposing policy actions related to the protection and awareness of financial consumers in light of the financial crisis, especially through the elaboration of the Good Practices on Financial Education and Awareness Relating to Credit. 

Finance, Competition and Governance: Priorities for Reform and Strategies to Phase-Out Emergency Measures

18-juin-2009

This report describes issues that must be addressed to restore public confidence in financial markets and to put incentives in place to encourage a prudent balance between risk and the search for return in (broadly-defined) banking.

Dealing with the financial crisis and thinking about the exit strategy

11-juin-2009

This article looks at the stages of financial crisis management and some of the different degrees of transparency on losses and risks in the US and Europe. It compares alternative approaches to dealing with impaired assets used in the US and Europe, examines the capital needs of banks where exposure to off-balance losses remains a key issue and outlines the requirements of longer-run reform.

OECD governments are coping with exploding borrowing needs

11-juin-2009

A new article (OECD Sovereign Borrowing Outlook 2009)  projects that gross borrowing needs of OECD governments are expected to reach almost USD 12 trillion in 2009. In response, sovereign debt managers have begun to plan or implement medium-term exit strategies to avoid future “crowding out” and issuance problems. A related article (New Challenges in the Use of Government Debt Issuance Procedures, Techniques and Policies in OECD Markets) explains that the ongoing crisis has prompted a review of sovereign issuance procedures and policies.

OECD-Brazilian International Conference on Financial Education

du 15-déc.-2009 au 16-déc.-2009

This conference, co-hosted by the OECD and Comissão de Valores Mobiliários (CVM), seeks to advance and elevate the dialogue on financial education in the international arena and particularly in Latin America; share experiences on best practices; as well as look at applied research.

Third Annual Conference of the Egyptian Institute of Directors (EIOD), Cairo, Egypt

le 15-juin-2009

The conference focused on three key themes: the role of internal audit and audit committees, the role of external auditors, and disclosure and accounting standards.

Reinforcing Financial Supervision and Regulation - Lessons from the Crisis, Beirut, Lebanon

du 28-mai-2009 au 29-mai-2009

The conference focused primarily on corporate governance lessons emerging from the current financial crisis.

Regional Symposium on Insolvency and Creditor Rights in the MENA countries, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

du 26-mai-2009 au 27-juin-2009

The conference took place to advance the level of understanding of the insolvency systems in countries in the region.

6th Forum on Asian Insolvency Reform (FAIR)

du 17-juil.-2009 au 18-juil.-2009

Taking place in Bangkok on 17-18 July 2009, the theme for this event is 'Asian Insolvency Reforms following the Global Financial Crisis: Policy Responses and Opportunities'. Emphasis will be on a review of progress made by Asian governments in reform implementation and in-depth discussion on the policy options for insolvency reform.

Migration in Central America: Governance and Links to Labour Markets

le 25-juin-2009

The OECD Development Centre and FLACSO co-hosted a workshop on June 25th, 2009 in San Jose, Costa Rica to discuss migration issues in Central America, focusing on the themes of governance of migration and the links between migration and labour markets.

10 year anniversary of the Asian Roundtable on Corporate Governance, Manila, 9-10 September 2009

du 09-sept.-2009 au 10-sept.-2009

This is a critical time to evaluate whether corporate governance standards and practices are working. What will the next decade of Corporate Governance in Asia be like?

4th meeting of the Network on Corporate Governance of SOEs in Asia

du 20-mai-2009 au 21-mai-2009

Taking place in Bangkok, this year's meeting focussed on implementation of the Policy Brief on priorities and recommendations for improving the corporate governance of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) in Asia using case studies on good practice from around the Asia region.

Special Session of the Working Party on Public Debt Management

le 21-avr.-2009

This special meeting, to be held on 21 April 2009, will allow participants to  discuss further on key implications of the crisis.

Please note that only members of the WPDM were invited to this special meeting.

OECD-IEFP Symposium on Financial Education

le 20-mai-2009

This symposium focused on the role of financial education in the context of the financial crisis. High-level officials and decision-makers from around the world met in Paris to discuss and elevate the international policy dialogue on the importance of financial education on a global scale and as one of the long-term possible responses to the current financial crisis.