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Components of Financial System

The document outlines the basic components of a financial system including financial intermediaries, financial markets, and financial instruments. Financial intermediaries facilitate transactions between investors and borrowers. Financial markets allow for the creation and transfer of financial assets in both money markets for short-term assets and capital markets for long-term assets. Financial instruments are the tradable assets and securities that are exchanged in financial markets, such as equity shares, debentures, and bonds.

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Components of Financial System

The document outlines the basic components of a financial system including financial intermediaries, financial markets, and financial instruments. Financial intermediaries facilitate transactions between investors and borrowers. Financial markets allow for the creation and transfer of financial assets in both money markets for short-term assets and capital markets for long-term assets. Financial instruments are the tradable assets and securities that are exchanged in financial markets, such as equity shares, debentures, and bonds.

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Components of Financial System

A financial system refers to a system which enables the transfer of money between investors and borrowers. The term system in Financial System indicates a group of complex and closely linked institutions, agents, procedures and transactions within a economy.

Basic Components of Financial System


Financial Intermediaries Financial Markets Financial Instruments (Assets or Securities)

Financial Institutions
Financial institutions facilitate smooth working of the financial system by making investors and borrowers meet. They mobilize the savings of investors either directly or indirectly via financial markets, by making use of different financial instruments as well as in the process using the services of numerous financial services providers. They could be categorized into Regulatory, Intermediaries, Non-intermediaries and Others.

Financial Markets
A financial market is the place where financial assets are created or transferred. It can be broadly categorized into money markets and capital markets. Money market handles short-term financial assets (less than a year) whereas capital markets take care of those financial assets that have maturity period of more than a year. One more classification is possible: primary markets and secondary markets. Primary markets handles new issue of securities in contrast secondary markets take care of securities that are presently available in the stock market.

Financial Instruments
This is an important component of financial system. The products which are traded in a financial market are financial assets, securities or other type of financial instruments. Equity shares, debentures, bonds, etc are some examples.

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