Banking Institutions & Finance Firms
Money & the Monetary System
Financial institutions
Securities
100

Includes DEPOSITORY INSTITUTIONS, CONTRACTUAL SAVING ORGANIZATIONS, SECURITY FIRMS AND FINANCE FIRMS

What is Financial Institutions

100

What is responsible for Creating Money, Transferring money.

What is the Monetary System

100

company is a middleman who connects buyers and sellers to complete a transaction for stock shares, bonds, options, and other financial instruments

What is Brokerage Firm

100

A short-term unsecured promissory note issued by a highly credit quality corporation. 

What is Commercial Paper

200

This type of bank accepts deposits and issues check writing account from customers. Also makes loans to individuals and businesses.

What is Commerical Banks

200

What includes Real Estate Property, Equipment, Inventories, Durable goods, Precious metals

What is Real Assets

200

a nonprofit-making money cooperative whose members can borrow from pooled deposits at low interest rates.

What is Credit Unions

200

a short-dated government security, yielding no interest but issued at a discount on its redemption price.

What is a Treasury Bill
300

A banking institution that helps businesses sell new debt and equity securities to raise financial capital.

What is a Investment Bank

300

What includes Treasury Bills, Commercial Paper, Negotiable Certificates of Deposit, Banker’s Acceptance, Repurchase agreement, Federal Funds

What is Money Market Securities

300

an institution that accepts savings at interest and lends money to savers chiefly for home mortgage loans and may offer checking accounts and other services

Savings and loan associations

300

where debt securities w/ maturities of one year or less are originated and traded

What is Money Markets

400

Provide loans to individuals for meeting credit needs, and for purchasing durable goods and homes.

 What is Finance Firms 

400

What includes Checkable deposits at depository institutions, Currency, Demand deposits and Traveler’s checks.

What is M1 Money Supply

400

a professionally managed investment fund that pools money from many investors to purchase securities

What is Mutual Fund

400

is a negotiable piece of paper that functions like a post-dated check. A bank, rather than an account holder, guarantees the payment.

What is a Bankers Acceptance
500

Sell shares in their firms to individuals and others. Invest the pooled proceeds in corporate and government securities.

What is Investment Companies

500

What includes Money, Debt instruments, Equity securities and Financial contracts.

What is Financial Assets

500

includes national provident funds, life insurance companies, private pension funds, and funded social pension insurance systems. They have long-term liabilities and stable cash flows and are therefore ideal providers of term finance, not only to government and industry, but also to municipal authorities and the housing sector.

Contractual Saving Organizations

500

financial assets that represent shares of ownership

Equity Securities

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