BFI Topic 1 2 3
BFI Topic 1 2 3
BFI Topic 1 2 3
Financial institutions (FI) are formed to deal with financial and monetary transactions.
Due to their important role in the economy, the government creates laws and regulations to
oversee FI activities.
OBJECTIVES OF FI:
-Satisfy Financial Needs.
-Assist Customers: investment services, savings services, loans
-Mobilize Savings: accepts deposits, pays interest on deposits to increase customer's income
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TYPES OF FI:
-Credit Unions: non-profit, managed by members. Pools members' assets or savings to provide
financial services to them. Members belong to a specific group. Offers low interest rate on loans
and higher interest rate on investment instruments (i.e. savings accounts).
-Commercial Bank(CB): for-profit, accepts deposits and provides loans. (department store of
finance)
-Financial Services corporation: large conglomerates that combines many different financial
institutions within a single corporation.
-Investment Bank(IB): IB =/= CB. primarily concerns the needs of businesses and the
government. Deals with mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, and large projects.
Acts as intermediary, underwriter, lender, and consultant. (are also called underwriters)
PENSION FUNDS:
-are retirement plans funded by corporations or government agencies for their workers.
-administered by trust departments or by life insurance companies.
-invests primarily in bonds, stocks, mortgages, and real state.
-Ex. of Pension funds in Phil.: SSS for private and GSIS for public workers.
MUTUAL FUNDS:
-organizations that pool investor funds to purchase financial instruments
-thus reduce risks through diversification.
-achieves economies of scale in analyzing securities, managing portfolios, and buying and
selling securities.
UNIVERSAL BANKS:
-have the authority to exercise, in addition to the powers authorized for a commercial bank, the
powevers of an investment house and the power to invest in non-allied enterprises.
COMMERCIAL BANKS:
-banks that have, in addition to the general powers incident to corporations, all such powers as
may be necessary to carry on the business of commercial banking such as accepting drafts and
issuing letters of credit; discounting and negotiating promissory notes, drafts,bills of exchange
and other evidences of debt; accepting or creating demand deposits; receiving other types of
deposits and deposit substituresl buying and selling foregin exchange and gold or silver bullion;
acquiring marketable bonds and other debts secrutieis; and extending credit subject to such rule
as the MB may promulgate.
RURAL BANKS:
-provides needed credit readily available and accessible in rural areas promotes comprehensive
rural development
THRIFT BANKS:
-includes savings and mortgage banks, private development banks, and stock savings and loan
associations.
COOPERATIVE BANKS:
-provides financial, banking and credit services to cooperative organizations and their members.
ISLAMIC BANKS:
-Charter of Al Amanah Islamic Investment Bank of the Phillippines.
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IMPORTANCE OF FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS.
-Most of the world depends on FI for daily transactions
-Economy depends on FI
-FI leads to economic growth during recession
-Acts as an INTERMEDIARY between fund suppliers and users
-Thus, it's essential for a country's financial stability
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FUNCTIONS OF FI:
Bank Services.
-offers credit facilities to clients who need financial support
-gives reasonable interest rate for savings and other deposit accounts
-covers: personal, educational, automobile, home, and mortgageable loans
Insurance Services.
-sells premiums and pays policyholders and beneficiaries during unfavorable events.
-covers life and nonlife insurance.
Formation of Capital.
-provides funds to businesses that require external funds to implement expansion plans by
accepting individual's savings.
-thus FIs help in the formation of capital
Investment Consultation.
-For investors who may not be acquainted with numerous investment options.
-FIs help clients to adopt the best investment option available.
-Based on investor's risk-taking and other interests
Brokerage Service
-FI serves as a broker between investors and various companies for selling stocks, bonds,
shares by getting a brokerage fee.
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DEPOSITARY.
-financial intermediaries (middle men; link between client and seller)
-raises funds through deposits made by their customers.
-includes COMMERCIAL BANKS, SAVINGS INSTITUTIONS, and CREDIT UNIONS.
types of depositary:
CREDIT UNIONS
-FIs formed by members of common interest
-Ex: public employees or residents of a particular region.
-Deposits made by members are used to make loans with reasonably low interest rate to union
members only.
COMMERCIAL BANKS
-sells financial securities to the public
-Customers who make deposits can make withdrawals
-Depositors receive interest payments from the bank
-Serves as key institutions in the financial intermediation process of a country
-holds more debt than equity due to this
-highly risk institutions
-invests in risky assets to profit
-expected to maintain a level of safety in their operations in order to
-maintain credibility, and to protect the nation's economy from excessive risk-taking
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NON-DEPOSITARY.
-includes finance companies, insurance companies, mutual funds and pension.
-services: provide insurance, provision of financing and assisting in transactions of securities.
FINANCE COMPANIES.
-provides loans (in small amounts)
-finances its operations through sales of it's own securities (stocks, bonds, commercial papers,
borrowings from commercial banks)
-Unlike banks, FC raises capital in larger chunks using the channels listed above
-Unlike banks, FC face less regulation compared to depository Institutions in the loans they
make.
-Finance may be classified as: BUSINESNESS FINANCE, SALES FINANCE, and CONSUMER
FINANCE COMPANIES
INSURANCE COMPANIES.
-provides protection against unfavorable events
-receives payments (called premiums) from customers
-In exchange: promises to pay their beneficiaries a specified amount if such an event occurs.
-invests funds collected from premiums in long-terms Financial assets (bonds & stocks)
-Two types: LIFE and NONLIFE insurance
LIFE INSURANCE.
-in case of death or incapacitated
-pays beneficiaries if such event happens to policyholder
-policyholder is the one who paid for the premium.
Term Life:
-coverage for a pre-specified period or term.
-AKA temporary life insurance.
-no cash value for policyholders.
-no payoff if policyholder does not die during the policy term.
-requires renewal
-premium costs increases per renewal due to the policyholder aging.
-policyholders can opt for a lower benefits package to pay less
Whole Life:
-protects policyholder until death
-surplus funds from premiums are invested on behalf of policyholders
-unlike Term Life, Whole life guarantees payment to beneficiaries
-premiums are more expensive than Term Life.
Universal Life:
-a form of Whole Life Insurance
-has characteristics of both whole and term life
-has a predetermined period in which the policy is valid
-at the same time, it has cash value
-this premium is used to: pay beneficiaries at death and to invest surplus funds so policyholder
has a return
-cash value built over time can be used by policyholder
Variable Life:
-another form of Whole Life
-surplus premiums above the term life policy is invested on behalf of policyholder
-promises a specific minimum payment at death
-possibility of higher payment if invested surplus earn a higher return
-policyholder can choose where the surplus funds are invested
Group Life:
-for workers, under one policy.
-Contributory Group Insurance: employer and employees may share the payment of premium
-Non-Contributory: employer can also pay the whole premium for its employees
Causalty Insurance:
-protection against legal liability
-ex: harm caused to third parties due to accidents
Nonlife insurances are renewed annually and premium costs increase if expected payouts rise.
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(note that in contrast, FIs and Financial Markets MAY HAVE internal regulations to guide its own
operations.)
REAL SECTOR:
-consists of markets for real outputs (goods and services)
-inputs and outputs
Outputs:
-goods and services produced.
FINANCIAL SECTOR:
-consists of markets for financial assets.
-shares, bonds and money.
There must be a means of connecting OWNERS of resources and those who NEED those
resources.
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This arrangement allows goods and services to be produced, and income generated.
PROBLEMS:
-what if borrowers do not reimburse creditors but instead absconds?
-what if entrepreneur fails because they did not know about what they are representing to the
creditors?
-how much reimbursement will the creditor receive?
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Banks play a major role for making it possible for those without the resources to get resources.
the core activity is to act as intermediaries between depositors and borrowers.
Financial systems provides an efficient mechanism for creditors to extend credit their credit to
borrowers. Without the financial sector, output of commodities will be extremely low and
societies will be very poor.
The more complex the financial system, the higher the number of regulatory bodies.
CONSEQUENCES IN A WORLD WITHOUT FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS:
-There would be a low level of funds flowing between suppliers and users.
-All risks goes directly to supplier.
-If FIs don't exist, suppliers of funds (e.g., households) will generate excess savings, and would
have two choices: hold cash as asset or directly invest cash to users.
-There will be a DIRECT transfer of money (see chart)
Direct Transfer - when corps sells its stock or debt directly to investors without going through
a financial institution.
In a world without FI, level of funds would like be low due to ff reasons:
1) suppliers of funds need to monitor continuously the use of their funds - costly monitoring
cost
-Monitoring is extremely costly of time and effort.
-Suppliers are likely to leave the monitoring of borrowers to others, increasing the risk of
directly investing financial claims.
2) suppliers of funds prefer to hold cash for liquidity
-the long-term nature of most financial claims discourages suppliers.
-financial market may not be active or well-developed.
-savings are used to pay for future expenditures.
3) fund suppliers face a price risk upon the sale of securities
-secondary market trading of securities involves various transaction costs
-Ex: the selling price of securities in a secondary market such as the NYSE may differ
from its initial purchase price due to the time between it was bought and sold or due to the
additional transaction costs imposed by dealers (intermediaries) for completing a trade
FI is basically a company that engaged in the business of dealing with financial and monetary
transactions such as deposits, loans, investsments and currenycy exchange.
FI that perform the essential function of channeling funds from those with surplus funds to those
with shortages of funds.
Indirect Transafer - transfer of funds between suppliers and users of funds through financial
intermediary.
FI ability diversify away some, but not all, of their investment risks.
Diversify - the ability of an economic agent to reduce risk by holding a numbers of securities in
a portfolio.
Portfolio increases → FI have more power to diversify → portfolio risk falls → lessen price risk
←- FI to predict more accurately its expected return and risk on its investment portfolio
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Financial Markets
- any place or system where trading of financial instruments occurs.
Money Market.
- short-term financial instruments are bought and sold; if the term is less than a year; such as
treasury bills, commercial paper, negotiable certificate of deposit and banker’s acceptance.
-Fluctuations in their prices in the secondary markets in which they trade are usually quite small
(the shorter the duration, the lesser impact to prices)
Capital Market
- Long-term financial instruments are bought and sold; if the term is more than a year; such as
treasury bonds, govt. Agencies, bank and consumer loans and corporate stock and bonds.
-Given their longer maturity, these instruments experience wider price fluctuations in the
secondary markets in which they trade than do money market instruments (the longer the
duration, the bigger impact to prices)
DEBT INSTRUMENT:
-bonds
-principle: HOW MUCH was borrowed
-maturity or term: when the principal is PAID BACK
-interest: ADDITIONAL AMOUNT to pay and how often until maturity
Stock or share.
-ownership in a company
Bond Market.
Stock Market.
Money Market.
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ROLES OF FINANCIAL INSTITUTION.
1# Regulation of Monetary
-regulates money supply to control inflation and maintain stability.
-tools: cash reserve ratio, open market operations, etc.
2# Banking Services
-provide savings and deposit services
-offer credit facilities like overdrafts
-provide loans and mortgages
3# Insurance Services
-transfer customer's risk of loss to themselves
4# Capital Formation
-increase in capital stock like plant, machinery
-mobilize idle savings from individuals
5# Investment Advice
-helps customers, investors, and businesses to
select the best investment option.
6# Brokerage Services
-provide investors access to several invesment options available
-ranges from stock bonds to hedge funds and private equity
7# Pension Fund Services
-helps individuals plan their retirement
Conclusion:
-Financial Institutions are the backbone of the economy.
-Economy will go down without it
-government regulates Financial Institutions through the central bank, insurance regulators,
pension fund regulators, etc.
-Over the years, their role has expanded from accepting and lending funds to larger service
areas
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Circulation of resources.
Asymmetric Information: AKA "Information failure" one has greater knowledge on the
transaction than the other.
-Adverse Selection: Selecting whom to give more your money is a very important part of
controlling risk. Without information about those seeking funds, theory goes that you would have
to charge an average price for your money or sale item. But an average price would cause
those who are better risks or have better products to shun your offer, while those with higher
risks will seek your offer, resulting in adverse selection.
- Moral Hazard: borrower behaves differently after securing the loan; increases risk of project
failure. Or borrowers don't use borrowed funds as inteded.
(ex: people with car insurance drives recklessly than those who don't)
Problems:
- the borrower may not accurately explain what they are borrowing the money for.
- losses will lead to creditors in increasing their interest rates.
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The more banks hold money as reserves, the smaller the multiplier.
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Money.
- most liquid of financial assets
- surpluses can be held and are readily available for use
- generally acceptable
- those who want to buy resources to produce commodities would prefer to have money to its
flexibility
- amount of money in the economy could give an indication of the intensity of demand for
commodities in the economy
- money is a financial asset; it is bought and sold just like any other financial asset and therefore
has a price
- price of money affects all other financial assets in the economy. i.e. foreign exchange currency
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Complex Network - global financial system, institutions, markets, money flow, investments
Bond Markets
Risk management involves spotting the key risks, deciding where the risk exposure should be
increased or reduced, and identifying the methods for monitoring and managing the bank’s risk
position in real time.
Risk:
- the volatility or standard deviation (square root of variance) of net cash flows
- inadequate risk management will lead to solvency of a bank
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- Credit risk: an asset or a loan risks becoming irrecoverable due to unexpected delay in
serving of loan; biggest risk for banks.
- credit risk is avoidable by choosing assets with very low default risk but low return, but the
bank profits from taking risk.
- good credit risk management has always been a key component to the success of a bank.
- CREDIT RISK WHEN NOT BEING PAID BACK BY BORROWER.
OPERATIONAL RISK.
- other terms: Human Capital, Physical Capital, Legal, Fraud.
- Human Capital: risk of error from human error.
- Physical Capital: damage to physical assets, business disruption, system failure, problems
with execution and process management
- Legal: the risk of bank being sued. Can happen due to business practices or the treatment of
clients
- Fraud: may be internal or external to the bank
SOVEREIGN RISK.
- Sovereign risk: a government defaults on debt. TYPES:
- Sovereign defaults
- Debt Repudiation (denying that borrower made the debt),
- Debt Rescheduling (postponing debt payment). NO COLLATERAL
- a special form of credit risk, except the bank lacks the tools to recover from the debt.
- Problems with enforcing the loan contract: Borrowing money in the future is harder.
- leads to trust issues, raises concerns, low confidence.
- example cases:
- post-WWII, China, Cuba, and NK have repudiated their debt obligations.
- some of the poorest countries had their debt forgiven after 1996. Called DEBT RELIEF
(special case)
- some countries have threatened to repudiate their debt. (Russian & Argentina)
- other countries announced they cannot meet an agreed payment.
- sometimes sovereign defaults are intentional, political or economic moves.
POLITICAL RISK.
- state interference
- political risks looks like sudden tax hikes, interest rate or exchange rate control regulations,
nationalization(ownership transferred to the public), and privatization (transfer of ownership from
the public to a single individual) of its banking sector.
- ALL businesses are exposed to political risk,
- but BANKS are MOST VULNERABLE due to its VITAL ROLE in the financial system.
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