Financial institutions

Financial institutions in the world acted as financial institutions providing financial services to its clients, which are generally governed by this institution of government financial regulations. The general form of these financial institutions are including banking, building society (a type of co-operatives in the UK), Credit Union, stockbrokers, asset management, venture capital, cooperatives, insurance, pension funds, and other similar businesses.

Financial institutions in Indonesia is divided into 2 groups of financial institutions and banks non-bank financial institutions (insurance, mortgage, securities firms, financial institutions, etc.).

[edit] Function

These financial institutions provide services as an intermediary between the owners of capital and debt markets in charge of channeling funds from investors to companies that need funds. The presence of these financial institutions that facilitate the flow of money circulation in the economy, where money collected from individual investors in the form of savings, so the risk of these investors turn to financial institutions which then distribute these funds in the form of debt loans to the needy. This is a major goal of the fund depository institutions to generate income. Examples of financial institutions are banks.

See also

* Bank
* Investment management
* Hedge funds
* Mutual Funds
* Credit
* Investment banking
* Pawnshop