This paper argues that regulators of Digital Financial Services (DFS) must first work to understand and build consumer demand for DFS rather than purely focusing on developing enabling regulatory frameworks.

Unemployment will remain above its pre-crisis levels next year in most OECD countries, despite modest declines over the rest of 2014 and in 2015, according to a new OECD report.

OECD GDP up 0.4% in the second quarter of 2014 but with mixed patterns across countries