Finals Exam Flashcards
conduct financial sector assessments
of countries that they help. It is
imperative that they
monitor the financial standing of
country borrowers. A study of the country’s financial system is crucial in
the study of capital markets because
the financial market in central to the
financial system.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank (WB)
was based on the joint work of IMF
and World Bank Financial Sector
Assessment Program (FSAP) Update
Mission to Manila form November 4 to 17,
2009. The initial FSAP took place in 2002.
The initial FSAP took place in 2002. The
update team comprised of World Bank
staff including Pamela Madrid, the main
author of the report.
The financial Sector Stability Assessment
(FSSA)
are designed to assess the stability of
the financial system as a whole and not that of individual institutions. It has been developed to help countries identify and remedy weaknesses in their financial sector
structure, thereby enhancing their resilience to macroeconomic shocks and cross-border contagion
FSAP Assessments
describes collectively the financial
markets ,the participants, and the financial instruments and securities that are traded in the financial markets. The functions of these are:
• To channel the funds from the savings units (lenders) to
the deficit units (borrowers);
• To provide a medium of exchange
• To provide a mechanism for risk sharing; and
• To provide a channel through which the central bank can
influence the economy, in general and the financial
system , in particular.
Financial System
a way of getting deposits and necessary funds to finance projects and investments.
Fund Acquisition
determining to which uses, projects, or investments the acquired funds will be used.
Fund Allocation
the process by which necessary funds are given to the uses, projects, or investment that need funds.
Fund Distribution
using the funds for its intended purpose
Fund Utilization
Are generally described as the group that
receives income majority of which typically
comes form wages and salaries. Such income is
spent on goods and services, and a part is saved.
Households or Consumers
Are the firms that bridge the gap between
surplus units (SUs) or investors/lenders and
deficit units (DUs) or borrowers. They channel funds form lenders to borrowers. They include depository institutions and non depository institutions. Other than being channels, they are lenders and borrowers at times.
Financial Institutions/Intermediaries
Are businesses other than financial institutions or intermediaries. They include trading, manufacturing, extractive industries, construction, genetic industries, and all the
firms other than the financial ones. Just like
households and financial institutions, these are also borrowers or lenders or both at one time or another.
Non-financial Institutions
Means the national, provincial, municipal or
city governments, and barangays or towns
comprising the Philippines as a whole. Each
division has its heads and agencies that help in running the division they are responsible for. The Bureau of Treasury (BTR) is part of the government that is a participant in the financial system. When BTR or any other subdivisions of government issue their own securities, they act as borrowers/deficit units, and when the BTR or any other subdivisions of government buy securities, they act as investors or savers/surplus units
Government
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas and all the other central banks of the different countries are mandated to ensure that their respective countries have a stable and healthy
financial system. They oversee the operations of their entire financial system and mandate the rules, regulations, and monetary policies that will help them
maintain a healthy and stable economy. This is
the “banker” to banks. It provides various services to banks such as helping them collect and clear checks and loaning them funds as needed. As a lender and
regulator, central bank oversees the health of the banking system. Central banks are the monetary policymakers of their respective countries.
Central Bank
Refer to the participants from the rest of the world- households, governments, financial and non-financial firms, and central banks. Goods and services and financial instruments/securities are exchanged across national boundaries, as well as within boundaries. International trade and finance are parts of globalization. As globalization affects the entire world, the role of foreign participants in the financial system has become more important.
Foreign Participants
It was established on January 3, 1949 as the
country’s central monetary authority. The
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) was
established on July 3, 1993 pursuant to the
provisions of the 1987 Constitution and
Republic Act No. 7653, the New Central Bank Act of 1993 to replace the Central Bank of the Philippines. BSP enjoys fiscal and administrative autonomy in the pursuits of its mandated responsibilities.
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas and The Philippine Financial System
the first governor of the Central Bank of the Philippines initiated the concept of central bank in 1933.
Miguel Cuaderno
the Phil legislature passed a law establishing a central bank. Franklin Roosevelt disapproved due to strong opposition form vested interests.
Tydings McDuffie Act
What is the organizational structure of BSP?
- Monetary Board
- Governor
• Monetary and Economics Sector
• Financial Supervision Sector
• Corporate Services Sector
• Payments and Currency Management Sector
was formed form the country’s two former stock exchanges. The Manila Stock Exchange (MSE), and the Makati Stock Exchange (MKSE), established on May 27, 1963.
Philippines Stock Exchange (PSE)
• Are markets in which users of funds (e.g corporations) raise funds, through new issues of financial instruments such as stocks and bonds .
• They consist of underwriters, issuers, and instruments involved in buying and selling original or new issues of securities referred to as primary securities.
• Are markets for new issues of financial instruments like stocks and bonds.
• They raise cash for the issuing company, which acts as borrower by increasing its current capital stock when it issues stocks, or outstanding liabilities when it issues bonds.
Primary Markets
guarantees the sale of the issues, but
not intend to hold the shares or bond in his own account
Underwriter
helps the corporations issuing the stocks or bonds sell these stocks or bonds to interested investors
Investment banks or Merchant banks
• Once financial instruments are issued in primary markets, they are then traded here.
• Provide liquidity for investors as they sell their financial securities when they need cash.
• All transactions after the initial issue in the primary market are done in the secondary markets. For instance, A owns initially issued by Co. X and later on sells these Co. X stocks to B; the sale of A to B or anyone else is done in the secondary market.
Secondary Markets
a financial institution organized usually as a corporation or a partnership which principal business is to buy and sell securities
Securities Dealer
cover markets for short-term debt
instruments, usually issued by companies with high credit standing. They consist of a network of institutions and facilities for trading debt securities with a maturity of one year or less.
• They are markets in which commercial banks and other business adjust their liquidity position by borrowing,
lending, or investing for short periods.
• The government treasury uses money markets to finance its day-to-day-operations. Business and households also use money markets to borrow and lend.
• Money market instruments that generally have short maturities are highly liquid and have low default risk.
Money Market
What are examples of short term money market?
Treasury bills (T-bills)
issued by the government, banker’s acceptances, negotiable securities
of deposits, money market deposit accounts(MMDAs), money market
mutual funds (MMMFs) and commercial papers (CPs)
Banks with temporary cash surpluses led commercial banks to set up the money market as an auction house for excess reserves it is called what?
Interbank call market
These are credits of one bank to another for a period not exceeding 4 days. The 4-day limit is based on the BSP regulation and beyond this period, BSP presumes that a bank could not fund its assets form its deposit, that is, the bank is in trouble. Interbank call loan are treated as deposit substitutes.
Interbank call loans
are alternative ways of getting money from the public other that traditional bank deposits. They are borrowings by commercial banks form the public through
other banks or money market
Deposit Substitutes
It was opened in May 1972 by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) pioneering the trading of international financial derivatives, most notably futures
The International Money Market (IMM)
It is the rate at which the central bank of a country lends money to commercial banks in the event of any shortfall of funds. Repo rate is used by monetary authorities to control
inflation. Repo markets allow participants to undertake rapid refinancing in the interbank market independent of credit limits to stabilize the system
Repo Rate
It is a sale of securities for cash with commitment to repurchase them at a specified price at a future date.
Repurchase Agreement
The Philippine government issue two kinds of government securities, these are?
Treasury bills (T-bills) and Treasury bonds (T-bonds)
These are government securities which mature in less than a year. There are three tenors of T-bills: (1) 91-day, (2) 182-day,
and (3) 364-day bills. The number of days is based on the universal practice around the world of ensuring that the bills mature on a business day
T-bills
are government securities which mature beyond a year. At present, these are five maturities of bonds: (1) 2-year, (2) 5-year, (3) 7-year, (4) 10-year and (5) 20-year. These are sold at its face value on origination. The yield is represented by the coupons, expressed as a percentage of the face value on per annum basis, payable semi-annually
T-bonds
It is an electronic mode by which the national government sells government securities to a network government securities eligible dealers (GSEDs) which are linked to BTR using bridge Information Systems (BIS), every Monday for T-Bills and every second and fourth Tuesday for T-bonds.
The Automated Debt Auction Processing System (ADAPS)
It is a SEC-licensed securities dealer belonging to a service industry supervised/regulated by Government (SEC, Bangko
Sentral ng Pilipinas, or Insurance Commission) which has met the (1) P100M unimpaired capital and surplus account, (2) the statutory ratio prescribed for the industry, and (3) has the infrastructure for an electronic interface.
Government Securities Eligible Dealer (GSED)
non-formally organized markets are
another mode of originating GS for specific investors, namely, the government-owned or controlled corporations (GOCCs),
the local government units (LGUs), and the tax-exempt institutions (TEIs), such as pension funds, GSIS, SSS, etc. It is
non-competitive
Over-the-counter (OTC)
the official registry of absolutely ownership, legal, or beneficial titles or interest in GS (T-bills and T-bonds). Upon award of GS to GSEDs at the auction, the securities awards are electronically downloaded to the RoSS system. On issue date, the Principal Securities Accounts of the GSEDs are credited of the winning bids.
RoSS
It is the increment or interest on an investment in GS. It is the discount earned on Treasury bills or the coupon paid to the
holder of the treasury bonds.
Yield
It is a tender to buy an amount of GS at an
indicated yield rate per annum that a GSED believes will wrest an award for the GSED by out-bidding other GSEDs in the primary
market auction of GS.
Competitive Bid
It is a tender to buy a specified amount of
GS by a GSED in the primary auction of GS, without indicating any yield rate, on the understanding that the award shall be at
the weighted average yield rate of the competitive bids awarded at the same auction.
non-competitive bid
a method in which successful competitive bidders pay the price they have bid, and
all the winning bidders may pay different prices. Uniform price or Dutch auction is a method of pegging a uniform coupon rate
of a T-bond at the stop-out level of arrayed amounts of bid with the corresponding yield rate tendered.
Price Discrimination or English Auction
It is the payment process both in the primary and secondary markets for GS traded. This is undertaken by BSP being authorized by GSEDs to debit their
respective demand deposit accounts with BSP in favor of the demand deposit account of the Treasurer of the Phil or their
GSED also with BSP or vice versa.
Settlement of Trades
It is are markets for long-term securities.
Long-term securities are either debt securities (notes bonds, mortgages, leases) or equity (stocks). Major suppliers of capital market securities are corporations for
stocks and corporation and governments for bonds
Capital Markets