FINANCIAL MARKETS & SERVICES

Syllabus

Course Code: 044MAN012

 Financial Markets & Services

Module-I

Overview of Financial System: Introduction to Financial System – Features, Constituents of Financial System; Financial Institutions; Financial Services; Financial Markets and Financial Instruments.

Module-II

Financial Institutions: Characteristics of Financial Institutions, Broad Categories – Money Market Institutions and Capital Market Institutions. Objectives and Functions of Industrial Finance Corporation of India, Industrial Development Bank of India, State Financial Corporations, Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India, EXIM Bank of India, National Small Industrial Development Corporation, National Industrial Development Corporation, RBI Measures for NBFCs.

Module-III

Financial Services: Financial Services – Meaning, Objectives, Functions, Characteristics; Types of Financial Services - Merchant Banking – Functions and Operations, Leasing, Mutual Funds, Venture Capital & Credit Rating.

Module-IV

Financial Markets and Instruments: Meaning and Definition, Role and Functions of Financial Markets, Constituents of Financial Markets; Money Market Instruments, Capital Market and Instruments; SEBI guidelines for Listing of Shares and Issue of Commercial Papers.

Module-V

Stock Markets: Meaning of Stock, Nature and Functions of Stock Exchange; Stock Market Operations - Trading, Settlement and Custody (Brief discussion on NSDL & CSDL); Brief discussion of BSE, NSE and OTCEI.