Financial Market Trends: No. 75 Volume 2000 Issue 1

This publication provides you with timely analyses of, and statistics on, financial matters of topical interest or longer-term developments in specific financial sectors. It appears three times 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 feature regularly in this publication are: * Structural and regulatory developments in OECD financial systems * Trends in foreign direct investment * Trends in privatisation * Financial sector statistics covering areas such as bank profitability, insurance and institutional investors. Periodically, a small number of articles within one field of financial sector developments -- constituting the so-called "special focus" for the particular issue -- may be included.