Money and Financial Systems - SBPD Publications

Book excerpt: PART-A : MONEY 1. Definition and Functions of Money, 2. Nature and Importance of Money, 3 . Classification of Money, 4. Supply of Money and High Powered Money, 5. Gresham’s Law, 6. Value of Money and Index Number, 7. Quantity Theory of Money, 8. Inflation and Deflation, 9. Finance : Meaning, Role, Objectives and Kinds, 10. Financial System : Meaning, Components and Importance, 11. Financial Intermediaries, 12. Financial Market : Instrument and their Functions. PART-B : BANKING & FINANCIAL SYSTEM 1. History of the Development of Indian Banking System, 2 . Bank : Definition and Functions, 3. Classification and Importance of Banks, 4. Organisation of commercial Banks, 5. State Bank of India, 6. Investment Policy of Commercial Banks, 7. Defects and Economic Reforms of Indian Banking System, 8. Electronic Banking, 9. Credit, Credit Instruments and Credit Creation, 10. Indian Banking Legislation Banking Regulation Act, 1949, 11. Regional Rural Banks, 12. Co-operative Banks, 13. National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development- NABARD, 14. Central Banking or Apex Banking, 15. Reserve Bank of India, 16. Credit Control Polity of the Reserve Bank of India, 17. Monetary Policy, 18. Institutional Financial Institutions, 19. Institutional Financial Institutions, 20. International Monetary Fund, 21. World Bank and other International Financial Institutions, 22. Interest Rates, 23. Inflation and Interest Rates in India, 24. Problems and Policies of Allocation of Institutional Credit, 25. Operations of Conflicting Pressure before and after Bank Nationalisation.