Financial Services (3/50)

Savers and borrowers are brought together.

Savers provide financing to businesses, and businesses that wish to grow offer opportunities for

savers to take part in the growth and resulting potential returns

• investment chain

• Risk

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  Payment systems

In addition to the opportunities that the investment chain provides for pooling investment

risks, the financial services sector allows other risks to be managed effectively and efficiently through

the use of insurance, and increasingly through the use of sophisticated derivatives.

• investment chain

• Risk

• Payment systems

Payment and banking services operated by the financial services sector

provide the practical mechanisms for money to be managed, transmitted and received quickly and

reliably.

• investment chain

• Risk

• Payment systems

is also sometimes referred to as the professional sector or institutional sector.

• Retail

• Wholesale

markets are the best known of the financial markets and facilitate the trading of shares in quoted

companies.

• Equity

• Bonds

• FX

• Derivatives

Systems that bring together multiple parties that are interested in buying and selling financial instruments including shares, bonds and derivatives.

• Stock exchange

• Payment systems

• Multilateral trading facilities

Are larger both in size and value of trading. However, the volume is lower, as most trades tend to be very large when compared to equity market trades.

 

• Stocks

• Bonds

• FX

• Derivatives

Markets are the largest of all financial markets, with an average daily turnover in excess of US$6.6 trillion.

• Stocks

• Bonds

• FX

• Derivatives

Trade a range of complex products based on underlying instruments, including

currencies, indices, interest rates, equities, commodities and credit risk.

• Stock markets

• Bonds markets

• FX markets

• Derivatives markets

Specialise in the management of personaI risk, corporate risk and protection of life events.

 

• Insurance

• Reinsurance

• Reassurance

• Assurance