Financial Institutions And Services

Creating Value in Financial Services is a compilation of state-of-the-art views of leading academics and practitioners on how financial service firms can succeed in today's competitive environment. The book is based on two conferences held at New York University: the first, `Creating Value in Financial Services', held in March 1997, and the second, `Operations and Productivity in Financial Services', in April 1998. The book is essentially designed to be a compendium of leading edge thinking and practice in the management of financial services firms. There is no book today that has this focus. It contains ideas that can apply to other service industries. Topics addressed are increasingly important worldwide as the financial services industries consolidate and search for innovative new directions and ways to create value in a fiercely competitive environment.

Today, with the financial sector experiencing an unprecedented boom due to a variety of factors such as liberalisation, globalisation and consumer spending, the subject of this book has become more important than ever before. And this book compresses, within the covers of a single volume, the entire gamut of financial markets, institutions and financial services. Divided into three parts— Part I on Financial Markets deals with different Indian and global money markets, and primary and secondary markets. It also covers stock exchanges and their trade mechanism, foreign exchanges, as well as capital markets and their regulations; Part II, Financial Institutions covers diverse banking and non-banking institutions and their legislation; Part III, Financial Services discusses about the financial services which include mutual funds, lease financing, securitisation, and credit and debit cards. KEY FEATURES : A unique attempt to comprehensively analyse, within a single volume, the working of the three pillars of the financial system—financial markets, financial institutions, and financial services. Gives updated and latest financial data and related information on the subject. Provides tables and diagrams to illustrate the concepts, and questions (short answer and long answer/essay type) to test the comprehension skills of the students. Intended primarily as a text for the undergraduate and postgraduate students of Commerce, this accessible text will prove to be extremely useful also for the postgraduate students of Management, Economics, as well as for competitive examinations. In addition, it will be a ready reference for Chartered Accountants and all those who would like to acquaint themselves with Indian banking and capital market.

This new book provides an in-depth and integrated analysis of value production in the financial services industry. Based on modern financial economic theory and recent research results, this book offers a thorough and analytical treatment of all aspects of financial services. There is a strong emphasis on financial management, evident both in topicssuch as performance analysis, risk management, and regulationand in the book's structure.KEY TOPICSPresents a comprehensive treatment of the financial services industry, including a discussion of developments in the deregulated, global financial services economy. Emphasizes value production and financial management of financial services, relating analysis and strategic options for banks, insurance companies and securities firms to market performance. Offers integrated treatment of all financial services and institutions around "value- chain" activities. This provides a clear overview to the material, a logical structure to the book, and relevance to current development in the field.

1.Financial System and its Components, 2 .Financial System and Economic Development, 3 .Indian Financial System—An Overview, 4 .Money Market, 5 .Capital Market, 6 .Risk and Return—Concept and Analysis, 7 .Primary Market, 8 .Primary Market Intermediaries, 9 .Secondary Market, 10 . Government Securities Market, 11 .Recent Reforms in Indian Capital Market, 12 .Role of SEBI—An Overview, 13 .Reserve Bank of India, 14. Commercial Banks, 15. Life and Non-Life Insurance Companies—LIC, GIC, 16. Mutual Funds, 17. Non-Banking Financial Compaines (NBFCs), 18. Merchant Banking, 19. Leasing, Hire Purchase and Housing Finance : Factoring Services and Financial Counseling etc., 20. Venture Capital Financing, 21. Credit Rating, 22.Indian Financial Institutions/Development Bank.

"This paper reviews the evidence on the importance of finance for economic well-being, provides data on the degree of use of basic financial services by households and firms across a sample of countries, assesses the desirability of more universal access, and overviews the macroeconomic, legal, and regulatory obstacles to access using general evidence and case studies. Although access to finance can be very beneficial, the data show that universal use is far from prevalent in many countries, especially developing countries. At the same time, universal access has generally not been a public policy objective and is surely not easily achievable in most countries.