The Chile Financial Market Commission (CMF) published the results of its latest call for joint research studies, selecting six projects from eight proposals submitted by the academic community. The chosen topics cover interchange rates and regulation in the payment card market, the impact of financial education on tertiary students’ financial behaviour, gender-related differences in access to loans and lending conditions, the role of joint or sequential sales in the insurance market, determinants and effects of operational risk losses in the Chilean banking system, and the viability of developing a REPO market in Chile. Each project must include at least one CMF internal researcher and comply with the conditions in Annex 1 of the CMF policy on publishing non-regular documents and institutional reports and on working with external researchers; the research agreements do not involve payments or related costs.
Chile Financial Market Commission 2025-01-02
Chile Financial Market Commission selects six joint research projects on payments, credit access, insurance bundling, operational risk and the viability of a REPO market
The Chile Financial Market Commission selected six joint research projects from eight academic proposals. Topics include payment card interchange rates, financial education impacts, gender differences in lending, insurance market sales, operational risk losses in banking, and REPO market development. Each project involves a CMF researcher and follows specific publication and collaboration guidelines without financial compensation.