Fundamentals of Financial System and Markets

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Course Outline

  1. Financial System Components
  2. Participants in Markets
  3. Financial Market Types
  4. Financial Institutions Role
  5. Financial Instruments Types
  6. Financial Instruments Classification
  7. Financial Regulators
  8. Money and Banking Interaction
  9. Surplus Spending Units
  10. Deficient Spending Units

1. Financial System Components

Key Concepts & Definitions

  • Financial Institutions: Intermediaries that facilitate the smooth functioning of the financial system by creating a link between savers (surplus units) and borrowers (deficient units). They mobilize savings and allocate funds to productive investments, promising better returns (source content).

  • Components of Financial System: The essential elements that work together to enable the flow of funds, including financial institutions, financial markets, financial instruments, and financial services (source content).

  • Interaction of Money and Banking: The relationship where money acts as a medium of exchange, store of value, and unit of account, while banking provides the functions of accepting deposits, providing loans, and facilitating payments, thus integrating money into the broader financial system (source content).

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1. When was the Bank of England, a pivotal financial institution in the role of financial institutions, established?

2. How do surplus spending units typically apply their excess funds in practice within the financial system?

3. How do shares and bonds differ in their fundamental nature as financial instruments?

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Financial System Components — elements?

Institutions, markets, instruments, services.

Participants in Markets — roles?

Lenders, borrowers, investors, government.

Financial Market Types — examples?

Capital, money, foreign exchange, derivatives.

Financial Institutions Role — function?

Mobilize savings, allocate funds.

Financial Instruments Types — categories?

Shares, bonds, derivatives.

Instruments Classification — based on?

Ownership, debt, money.

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