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Financial Intermediaries and the Banking System

Financial Intermediaries and the Banking System. Chapter 4. Financial Intermediaries. Specialized financial firms that facilitate the indirect transfer of funds from savers to borrowers by offering savings instruments and borrowing instruments. Financial Intermediation.

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Financial Intermediaries and the Banking System

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  1. Financial Intermediaries and the Banking System Chapter 4

  2. Financial Intermediaries • Specialized financial firms that facilitate the indirect transfer of funds from savers to borrowers by offering savings instruments and borrowing instruments

  3. Financial Intermediation • The process by which financial intermediaries transform funds provided by savers into funds used by borrowers

  4. Benefits of Intermediaries • Reduced costs • Risk/diversification • Funds divisibility/pooling • Financial flexibility • Related services

  5. Types of Intermediaries • Commercial banks • Credit unions • Thrift institutions • Mutual funds • Whole life insurance companies • Pension funds

  6. Safety (Risk) of Financial Institutions • Banks, thrifts and credit unions • insured by FDIC • regulated by Federal Reserve • Insurance companies • regulated by states • Pensions • ERISA established PBGC • Mutual funds • SEC

  7. Evolution of Banking Systems • Storage of valuables (gold & silver) • Depository receipts • Receipts could be traded • Inventory could be lent out • Only necessary to maintain enough reserves to cover demand for withdrawal (fractional reserves)

  8. Fractional Reserve System • When the amount of reserves maintained by a financial institution to satisfy requests for withdrawals is less than 100 percent of total deposits

  9. Excess Reserves • Reserves at a bank in excess of the amount required • Equal to the total reserves minus the required reserves • Available for lending • an increase in reserves increases the money supply

  10. Money Supply • Maximum change in the money supply equals the excess reserves divided by the reserve requirement

  11. U. S. Banking System • Dual banking system • bank chartering exists both at state and national levels • Intrastate branching • establishing branch banks within the same state • Interstate branching • establishing branch banks in more than one state

  12. Bank Holding Company • Corporation that owns controlling interest in one or more banks

  13. Central Banking - The Federal Reserve System • Manages the monetary policy of the country • Decentralized network of regional, district banks • Supervised by the Board of Governors, appointed by the President

  14. Responsibilities of the Fed • Monetary Policy • influence economic conditions (interest rates) by managing the nations money supply

  15. Monetary Policy • Open Market Operations • buy and sell Treasury securities to expand or contract the nation’s money supply • Primary Dealer • has established relationship with the Federal Reserve to buy and sell government securities

  16. Monetary Policy • Reserve requirements • Discount rate • charged by the Fed for loans it makes to banks to meet temporary shortages in required reserves

  17. Responsibilities of the Fed (continued) • Monetary Policy • Regulate and supervise financial institutions operating in the United States • Check clearing operations provided by its payment system

  18. U. S. Banking Trends • Deregulation • Large financial service corporations • Overlapping of products available

  19. International Banking • Other countries have fewer financial institutions, but with more branches • Foreign banks are allowed to engage in non-banking business activities • Most of the world’s largest banks are not U. S. banks • Edge Act • International Banking Facilities (IBFs)

  20. End of Chapter 4 Financial Intermediaries and the Banking System

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