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Chapter 12 - Financial markets and the treasury function Flashcards

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The financial system ecompasses what?

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  • financial markets
  • financial institutions
  • financial securities
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What are some examples of financial markets?

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stock exchanges, money markets

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What are some examples of financial institutions?

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banks, building societies, insurance companies and pension funds

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What are some examples of financial securities?

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mortgages, bonds, bills and equity shares

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Why do we need the financial system?

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  • channels funds from lenders to borrowers
  • provides a mechanism for payments
  • creates liquidity and money
  • provides financial services
  • offers facilities to manage investment portfolios
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What are financial markets?

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mechanisms where those requiring finance (deficit units) can get in touch with those able to supply it (surplus units)

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What are the 2 main types of financial markets?

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capital markets
money markets

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what are money markets?

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short term (<1 year) debt financing and investment

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What are capital markets?

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stock markets for shares and bond markets

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What are primary markets?

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focal point for borrowers and lenders to meet. Market for issue of new finance

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What are secondary markets?

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  • second hand trading in securities after having been issued on the primary market
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What are the key roles of money markets?

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  • providing short-term liquidity to companies, banks and the public sector
    • loans, factoring and commercial papers for companies
    • inter-bank markets for banks and building societies
    • loans to local government authorities
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Capital markets deal in longer-term finance mainly via what?

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stock exchange

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capital markets deal mainly in what?

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  • public sector and foreign stocks
  • company securities (shares and corporate bonds)
  • eurobonds
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What are eurobonds?

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bonds issued in a currency other than that of the national currency of the issuing company

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What are market makers?

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help to keep the market moving. They have securities available to buy and sell and are continually quoting prices.

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An international financial market exists where?

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Where domestic funds are supplied to a foreign user or foreign funds are supplied to a domestic user

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The role of the stock market is to what?

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  • facilitate trade in stocks (corporate bonds, government bonds etc)
  • allocate capital to industry
  • determine a fair price for the assets traded
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Speculative trading on the market can assist by?

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Smoothing price fluctuations
- ensuring shares are readily marketable

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what are the 3 choices open to end-users of the financial system?

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  • lenders and borrowers contact each other directly
  • lenders and borrowers use an organised financial market
  • lenders and borrowers use financial institutions as intermediaries
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What are some issues with lenders and borrowers contacting each other directly?

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inefficient, risky and costly

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Intermediation refers to what?

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the process whereby potential borrowers are brought together with potential lender by a third party, the intermediary

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What are the roles of a financial intermediary?

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  • risk reduction
  • aggregation
  • maturity transformation
  • providing liquidity
  • hedging
  • financial intermediation
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How does a financial intermediary reduce risk?

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reducing the risk of a single default by lending to a wide variety of individuals and businesses

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What is aggregation?

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pooling small deposits to enable larger advances to be made

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What is maturity transformation?

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satisfying the different timescale needs of lenders (generally shorter) and borrowers (generally longer)

27
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How do financial intermediaries provide liquidity?

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through the processes of aggregation and maturity transformation, meaning that funds can be found/ invested somewhere quickly

28
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What is fintech?

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Financial technology - a term used to represent the technology and innovation that has allowed businesses that use such technology to modernise the provision of services

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What is the aim of fintech?

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aim to disrupt traditional markets through the use of technology that traditional institutions have been slow to adopt

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What are the areas where Fintech businesses have an impact?

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  • Disintermediation
  • Alternative credit source
  • potential source of finance
  • provision of financial services to those who are unbanked
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What is distermediation?

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removal of intermediary from transactions (online platforms, apps)

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What are examples of alternative credit sources?

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peer to peer lending platforms. Lender -> Borrower

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What are examples of new sources of funding?

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security token offering (STOs). instead of paying cash to but shares you could use cryptocurrency

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Who are unbanked people?

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those who are reluctant or unable to use conventional banks. Refers to adults who do not have a bank account or use banking institutions

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What is a money market instrument?

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any type of security that is traded in the money market?

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What kind of maturities are money market instruments?

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short maturities (less than 1 year)

37
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Coupon bearing securities have what king of maturity and interest rate?

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fixed maturity date and specified rate of interest

38
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What are 2 coupon bearing securties?

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certificates of deposit (CD)
Sale and repurchase agreement (repo)

39
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What are certificates of deposit?

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a certificate issued by a bank, stating that a set amount has been deposited

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What is a sale and repurchase agreement?

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selling a short-term security, and agreeing to buy it back later at a higher price

41
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What are discount instruments?

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issued at discount to their face value, and repaid later at a higher price. No interest is paid on them. However, the difference between the sale and repurchase price can be used to calculate an implicit interest rate.

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What are some examples of discount instruments?

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  • Treasury bills
  • commercial bills
  • commercial paper
  • banker’s acceptance
43
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What are treasury bills?

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short-term government debt (1 or 3 month maturity). The debt is issued by government at a discounted price, and repaid on maturity at a higher price

44
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What are commercial bills?

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Short-term large company debt, which operates in the same way as a treasury bill. Generally, sold at a greater discount than treasury bills

45
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What are commercial paper?

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very short-term company borrowing (7 to 45 days). Unsecured, so only companies with good credit ratings may use them successfully.

46
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What are commercial papers equivalent of?

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the money market equivalent to longer-term company debt such as a loan note

47
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What is banker’s acceptance?

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short-term debt that is guaranteed by a bank. effectively, a piece of paper that guarantees an amount will be paid out by a bank

48
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What are derivatives?

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financial instruments that derive their value from something else.

49
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What are examples of derivatives?

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FRAs
Caps and floors
Interest rate futures and options
interest rate swaps
swaptions

50
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What are FRAs?

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A forward rate agreement (FRA) is sued to fix, or lock in, a future interest rate

51
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What are caps and floors?

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guarantee a maximum or minimum interest rate that will be paid

52
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What are interest rate futures and options?

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tradeable securities that can be used to fix interest rates (future), or allow exposure to positive interest rate movements only (options).

53
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What are interest rate swaps?

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the option to swap interest rate payments with another party. This can be used to reduce overall interest costs, and to change interest type (fixed to variable or vice versa)

54
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what are swaptions?

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the option to swap interest rate payments. As with all options, this gives the holder the right but not the obligation to do something - leaving them exposed to positive interest rate movements only

55
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What is the formula for rate for the time period requested?

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(1 + rate for the given time period) ^ no. of periods - 1

56
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What are the roles of the treasury function?

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  • short-term management of resources
  • long-term maximisation of shareholder wealth
  • risk management
57
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What are some examples of short-term management of resources?

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  • short-term cash management - lending/borrowing funds as required
  • currency management
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What are some examples of long-term management of resources?

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  • raising long-term finance, including equity strategy, management of debt capacity and debt/equity structure
  • investment decisions, including investment appraisal, the review of acquisitions and divestments and defence from takeover
  • dividend policy
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What are some examples of risk management of resources?

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  • assessing risk exposure
  • interest rate risk management
  • hedging of foreign exchange risk
60
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What are the specific functions of the international treasury function?

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  • transfer prices
  • currency exposure
  • transferring cash
  • investment strategies
  • netting and matching
61
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Why would a divisionalised business choose to have one centralised treasury function?

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  • avoids duplication of skills
  • arrange funding in bulk
  • more effective foreign currency management
  • netting off surpluses and deficits in same currency means less need for overdraft and incidence of bank charges
62
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What does a decentralised treasury function bring?

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Autonomy and motivation
responsiveness

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