Characteristic Features of Financial Instruments
Characteristic Features of Financial Instruments
Characteristic Features of Financial Instruments
Classification of Financial
Markets
Organised markets
Unorganised markets – money lenders,
indigenous bankers, etc.,
Organised markets
Capital market
Money market
Capital market
Industrial securities market
1.primary market
2.secondary market
Govt securities market
Long term loans market
1.term loan market
2.market for mortgages
3.market for financial guarantees
Importance of capital market
Important source for the productive use of the
economy’s savings
Provides incentives to saving and facilitates capital
formation
Provides an avenue for investors
Facilitates increase in production and productivity in
the economy
Induce economic growth
Expert intermediaries
Imp source of technological upgradation
Money market
Call money market
Commercial bill market
Treasury bill market
Short term loan market
Foreign exchange market
Transfer purchasing power from one
country to another
Provides adequate credit facilities
Covers foreign exchange risk
Financial Rates of Return
Peculiar feature is int. rates do not reflect the
free market forces
Achieves the following
1.enable govt. to borrow comparatively
cheaply
2.ensure stability
3.support certain sectors through
professional lending rates
4.mobilise substantial savings
Recent trends
Int rates on govt deposits freed
Int rates on TB’s determined by auctions
Coupon rates on govt loans revised upwards
Int rates on debentures are allowed to be fixed
by companies
Max rates of int payable on bank deposits(fixed)
are freed for deposits of above one year
Financial Instruments
Primary securities
Secondary securities
Short term securities
Medium term securities
Long term securities
Characteristics of financial
instruments
Easy transferability
Ready market
Possess liquidity
Possess security value
Enjoy tax status
Carry risk
Facilitate futures trading
Less handling costs
Risk and return proportionate
Maturity period variations
Development of financial system
Nationalisation of financial institutions
1935 RBI established as a private inst.,
nationalised in 1948
1956 SBI nationalised previously known as
imperial bank of India
1956 245 insurance companies merged and
formed LIC
1969 14 major commercial banks nationalised
and 6 in 1980 and GIC re-organised
Starting of UTI
Est. 1964
1994 schemes approved by SEBI
Est. UTI Bank
UTI Investor service
UTI Security Exchange LTD
Establishment of development banks
1948 IFCI, 1951 SFC, 1955 ICICI (Pvt. Sec)
1958 RCI 1964, on 1st July IDBI,1971 IDBI, LIC jointly
set up IRCI renamed as IRBI in 1997, now a ltd co. IIBI
SIDBI(2-4-1990)
Institutions for financing agriculture
1963 ARDC
1982 July NABARD