WPMF Financial markets
and institutions
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OVERVIEW OF FINANCIAL MARKETS
Learning Goals
Differentiate between primary and secondary markets
Differentiate between money and capital markets
Understand the concept of foreign exchange markets
Understand the concept of derivative security markets
Distinguish between the different types of financial
institutions
Know the services financial institutions perform
Know the risks financial institutions face
Appreciate why financial institutions are regulated
Recognize that markets are become increasingly global
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Why Study Financial Markets
and Institutions?
Markets and institutions are primary
channels through which capital is allocated in
our society
Investment and financing decisions require
managers and individual investors to understand
the flow of funds throughout the economy
Managers and individuals must also understand
the operation and structure of domestic and
international financial markets
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Financial Markets
Financial markets are structures through
which funds flow
Financial markets can be distinguished along
two major dimensions:
Primary versus secondary markets
Money versus capital markets
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Primary versus Secondary
Markets
Primary markets
Markets in which users of funds (e.g.,
corporations) raise funds through new issues of
financial instruments, such as stocks and bonds
Include issues of equity by firms initially going
public, referred to as initial public offerings
(IPOs)
Secondary markets
Markets that trade financial instruments once
they are issued
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Primary and Secondary Market
Transfer of Funds Time Line
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Primary versus Secondary
Markets (Continued)
How were primary markets affected by the
financial crisis?
Secondary markets offer the following:
Liquidity, or the ability to turn an asset into cash
quickly at its fair market value
Information about the prices or the value of
investments
Trading with low transaction costs
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Money versus Capital Markets
Money markets trade debt securities or instruments
with maturities of one year or less
Most U.S. money markets are over-the-counter (OTC)
markets
Capital markets trade debt (bonds) and equity
(stocks) instruments with maturities of more than
one year
Wider price fluctuations than money market instruments
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Money Market Instruments
Outstanding
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Capital Market Instruments
Outstanding
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Foreign Exchange Markets
Foreign exchange risk is the sensitivity of the
value of cash flows on foreign investments to
changes in the foreign currency’s price in
terms of dollars
U.S. dollars received on a foreign investment
depends on the exchange rate between the U.S.
dollar and the foreign currency when the
nondollar cash flow is converted into U.S. dollars
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Derivative Security Markets
A derivative security is a financial security (e.g.,
future, option, swap, or mortgage-backed security)
whose payoff is linked to another, previously
issued security, such as a security traded in capital
or foreign exchange markets
Derivatives are traded in derivative security markets
Generally involves agreement between two parties to
exchange a standard quantity of an asset or cash flow
at a predetermined price and at a specified future date
Derivative markets are the newest of financial security
markets and are also potentially the riskiest security
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Derivative Security Markets
(Continued)
Derivative activity:
Tremendous growth between 1992-2013
Large drop from 2013 to 2019, due largely to the
2014 implementation of the Volcker Rule
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Financial Market Regulation
Financial instruments are subject to
regulations imposed by regulatory agencies,
such as the Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC)
Main emphasis of SEC regulations is on full and
fair disclosure of information on securities issues
to actual and potential investors
SEC monitors trading on the major exchanges to
ensure stockholders and managers do not trade
on inside information about their own firms
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Overview of Financial Institutions
(FIs)
Financial institutions perform the essential
function of channeling funds from those with
surplus funds to those with shortages of funds
In a world without FIs, the level of funds flowing
between suppliers and users would likely be
quite low due to the following reasons:
Monitoring costs
Liquidity costs
Price risk
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Types of Financial Institutions
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Flow of Funds
Flow of Funds in a World Flow of Funds in a World
without FIs with FIs
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Monitoring Costs
A supplier of funds who directly invests in a
fund user’s financial claims faces a high cost
of monitoring the fund user’s actions in a
timely and complete fashion
A solution is for many small investors to group
their funds together by holding the claims issued
by a FI (i.e., aggregation of funds)
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Liquidity and Price Risk
FIs act as asset transformers, financial
claims issued by an FI that are more
attractive to investors than are the claims
directly issued by corporations
Often, claims issued by FIs have liquidity
attributes that are superior to those of
primary securities
FIs diversify away some, but not all, of their
investment risk
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Additional Benefits and Functions
of FIs
Additional benefits FIs provide to suppliers of funds:
Reduced transaction cost
Maturity intermediation
Denomination intermediation
Economic functions FIs provide to the financial
system as a whole:
Transmission of monetary policy
Credit allocation
Intergenerational wealth transfers or time
intermediation
Payment services
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Risks Incurred by Financial
Institutions
FIs face various types of risks:
Default risk (i.e., credit risk)
Foreign exchange risk and country (i.e.,
sovereign) risk
Interest rate risk
Market risk, or asset price risk
Off-balance sheet risk
Liquidity risk
Technology and operational risk
Insolvency risk
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Regulation of Financial
Institutions
Failures of FIs can cause widespread panic
and withdrawal runs on institutions
The 2008 increase in the deposit cap (to
$250,000 per person per bank) was intended to
instill confidence in the banking system
FIs are regulated to prevent market failures,
as well as associated costs on the economy
and society at large
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Trends in the United States
The following trends are evident in the U.S.
between 1948-2019:
Share of depository institutions declined from
62.7% to 30.9%
Insurance companies also witnessed a decline in
their share, from 23.4% to 13.8%
Investment companies increased their share from
1.1% to 31.0%, while pension funds increased
from 9.1% to 13.2%
Overall assets increased from $0.27t to $75.21t
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Trends in the United States
(Continued)
Rise of financial services holding companies
Savers increasingly prefer investments that closely
mimic diversified investments in the direct
securities markets over the transformed financial
claims offered by traditional FIs
Shift away from risk measurement and
management and the financial crisis
Under the traditional originate-and-hold banking
model, banks may have been reluctant to so
aggressively pursue low-credit-quality borrowers for
fear of default
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Enterprise Risk Management
Enterprise risk management
Recognizes the importance of managing the
combined impact of the full spectrum of risks as an
interrelated risk portfolio
Seeks to embed risk management as a component
in all critical decisions throughout FI
Popularity rose as a result of the failure of
advanced risk measurement and management
systems to detect exposures that led to the
financial crisis
Stresses importance of building strong risk culture
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Fintech
Financial technology, or fintech, refers to the
use of technology to deliver financial
solutions in a manner that competes with
traditional financial methods
Includes services such as cryptocurrencies (e.g.,
bitcoin) and blockchain
Fintech risk involves the risk that fintech firms
could disrupt business of financial services firms
in the form of lost customers and lost revenue
Supports models of peer-to-peer mass
collaboration
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Globalization of Financial Markets
and Institutions
U.S. markets are the world’s largest, but
international markets have seen rapid growth in
recent years as a result of various factors:
1. Pool of savings in foreign countries has increased
2. International investors have turned to U.S. and other
markets to expand their investment opportunities
3. Information on foreign investments and markets is
now more accessible and thorough
4. Some U.S. FIs offer their customers opportunities to
invest in foreign securities and emerging markets at
relatively low transaction costs
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Globalization of Financial Markets
and Institutions (Continued)
U.S. markets are the world’s largest, but
international markets have seen rapid growth in
recent years as a result of various factors:
5. The euro is having a notable impact on the global
financial system
6. Economic growth in Pacific Basin countries, China,
and other emerging countries has resulted in
significant growth in their stock markets
7. Deregulation in many foreign countries has allowed
international investors greater access and allowed the
deregulating countries to expand their investor base
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Appendix 1A - The Financial
Crisis: The Failure of FIs’
Specialness
Home prices plummeted in late 2006 and early 2007
Defaults by subprime mortgage borrowers began to
affect the mortgage lending industry, as well as the
rest of the economy
Foreclosure filings jumped 93% in July 2007 over July 2006
FIs that held these mortgages and mortgage-backed
securities started announcing huge losses as
borrowers defaulted
Losses reached over $400b worldwide through 2007
Bear Stearns failed and was bought by JPMorgan
Chase for $2/share
Deal was assisted by Federal Reserve
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Appendix 1A - The Financial
Crisis: The Failure of FIs’
Specialness (Continued)
The Crisis Hits
September 8, 2008: U.S. government seized Fannie
Mae and Freddie Mac
Recorded approximately $9b in losses in the last half of
2007 related to subprime mortgage-backed securities
Put under a conservatorship and continue to operate under
the control of Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA)
September 15, 2008:
Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy
Merrill Lynch was bought by Bank of America
AIG met with federal regulators to raise cash
Washington Mutual was looking for a buyer
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The Dow Jones Industrial
Average, October 2007 – January
2010
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Overnight LIBOR, 2001-2010
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Appendix 1A - The Financial
Crisis: The Failure of FIs’
Specialness (Concluded)
The Rescue Plan
September 18, 2008: Federal Reserve and central
banks around the world invested $180b in global
financial markets to unfreeze credit markets
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson met with congressional
leaders to devise a plan to get bad mortgage loans and
mortgage-backed securities off the balance sheet of
financial institutions
October 3, 2008: $700b rescue plan was based and
signed into law
Established the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) that
gave the [Link]. Treasury funds to buy “toxic” mortgages and
other securities from FIs
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Federal Funds Rate and
Discount Window Rate
Some positive events
occurred between
September and December
2008
Oil dropped to below $40 in
late 2008, leading to falling
gas prices
Many banks restructured
delinquent mortgage loans
rather than foreclose
Fed announced it would drop
its target fed funds rate and
lower its discount window rate
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Major Items in the Stimulus
Program
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