Structure of Financial System
Structure of Financial System
Structure of Financial System
FINANCIAL SYSTEM
Financial Institutions Financial Markets Financial Instruments Financial
Services
Banking Non banking Money Market Capital Market Term Type Fund based
Fee based
1. Debt market
- is the financial market for fixed
claims like debt instruments
2. Equity market
- is the financial market for
residual claims i.e., equity
CLASSIFICATION ON THE BASIS
OF MATURITY OF CLAIMS:
1.Money markets
● a market where short term funds are borrowed and
lend.
● it deals in short term monetary assets with a
maturity period of one year
or less.
2. Capitals market
● this market deals in a long term claims, securities
and stocks with a maturity period of more than year.
CLASSIFICATION ON THE BASIS OF
SEASONING OF CLAIM
1. Primary markets
- are those markets which deal in the new securities.
- they are also known as a new issue markets.
2. Secondary markets
- are those markets which deal in existing securities
- consists of stock exchanges
CLASSIFICATION ON THE BASIS OF
STRUCTURE OR ARRANGEMENT
1. Organized markets
- these are financial markets in which financial
transactions take place within the well established
exchanges or in the systematic and orderly structure
2. Unorganized markets
- these are financial markets in which financial
transactions take place outside the well established
exchange or without systematic and orderly structure
or arrangements.
CLASSIFICATION ON THE BASIS
OF TIMING OF DELIVERY:
1.Cash/spot market
- this is the market where the buying and
selling of commodities happens
2. Forward/future market
- this is the market where participants buy
and sell stocks/commodities, contracts and the
delivery of commodities or securities occurs at
pre-determined time in future.
OTHER TYPES OF FINANCIAL
MARKET:
1.Foreign exchange market
- is a simply defined as a market in
which one country’s currency is traded
for another country’s currency.
2. Derivatives market
- are most modern financial
instruments in hedging risk.
- a common place where such
FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS