The Indian Financial System: Markets, Institutions and Services, 3rd Edition

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Banking and Non-Banking Institutions

Chapter Objectives

This chapter will enable you to develop an understanding of the following:

1. Banking Institutions: Functions and Regulation

2. Development of banking in India

3. Scheduled commercial banks

4. Mobilisation, lending, and investment of funds

5. Reforms in the banking sector

6. Payment and settlement system

7. Diversification in banking operations

8. Consolidation in banking

9. Equity capital raised by public sector banks

10. Risk management in banks

11. Prudential regulation

12. Regional Rural Banks

13. Cooperative banking—urban cooperative banks and rural cooperative banks

14. Non-banking financial companies

BANKING INSTITUTIONS

The banking sector is the lifeline of any modern economy. It is one of the important financial ...