International Approaches to Combating Financial Abuse and Promoting Stable Financial Markets Available to Purchase

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) governments recognise that the economic and social benefits of open markets for international trade, investment and capital flows can only be enjoyed fully in an environment of sound regulation and international cooperation. Criminal activity and other forms of financial abuse, including tax abuse, can impose high costs on economic and social development, distort resource allocation, challenge stability and integrity of the financial system and undermine confidence in democratic institutions. Growing interactions between national economies and markets and advances in communications and information technology have aided international financial abuses and raised new challenges for policy makers, regulators, supervisors and law enforcement authorities.