What are financial intermediaries? What economic function do they perform? Do they improve a standard of living?
Financial intermediaries help in managing supply and demand of
loanable fund . It helps in efficient allocation of savings and
loans.They are bank, non banking financial corporation,etc.
Economic functions of financial intermediaries:
1. Default Risk intermediation: The help in giving loans to
borrowers using putting risk on savers.
2 . Maturity intermediation: They help manage the
mismatch with the maturities of deposit and loan.
3. Liquidity intermediation : Saving deposits are highly
liquid where as loans are highly illiquid . They help in managing
liquidity in economy.
Yes,they improve standard of living by minimzing risk and providing
returns which increases value of money
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