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DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BANK AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTE

A non-bank financial institution (NBFI) is afinancial institutionthat does not have a fullbankinglicense

or is not supervised by a national or international banking regulatory agency. NBFIs facilitate bank-related

financial services, such asinvestment,risk pooling,contractual savings, andmarketbrokering.

[1]Examples of these includeinsurance firms,pawn shops,cashier's checkissuers,check

cashinglocations,payday lending,currency exchanges, andmicroloan organizations

In spite of certain similarities, the commercial banks basically differ from nonbank financial inter-

mediaries on the following grounds :

(i) Bank is a financial institution whose liabilities (i.e., deposits) are widely accepted as a means of

payment in the settlement of debt. Non-bank financial intermediaries, on the other hand, are those

institutions whose liabilities are not accepted as means of payment for the settlement of debt.

(ii) Commercial banks have the ability to generate multiple expansion of credit. The non-bank inter-mediaries do not have such ability. They simply mobilize savings for investment.

(iii) The credit creation activities of the commercial banks are determined by the excess reserves and

the cash-reserve ratio of the banks. The activities of the non-bank intermediaries (i.e., saving

mobilization, lending activities, etc.) are largely governed by the structure of interest rates.

(iv) Credit creation activities of the banks involve lesser time, while the lending activities of the non-

bank intermediaries involve longer time.

(v) The credit creation activities of the commercial banks are regulated and controlled by the central

bank. The nonbank intermediaries are not generally under the control of central bank, and thus,then1activities may create hurdles in the way of effective implementation of monetary policy.

(vi) Nonbank intermediaries can influence liquidity and create economic destabilisation in the

economy. Destabilisation occurs when the financial claims on the nonbank intermediaries increase

at the cost of demand deposits of the banks.

(vii) Commercial banks raise funds costlessly because no interest is paid on demand deposits.

Nonbank intermediaries, on the other hand, have to pay higher interest to attract more funds.

(viii) People deposit money in the banks for safety, convenience and liquidity considerations.

However, they invest their savings in the nonbank intermediaries with the motive of earning extraincome.

(ix) Banks form a homogeneous group, while nonbank intermediaries form a heterogeneous group in

the financial structure of the economy.

(x) Bank generally deals with short-term loans in the money market, whereas the nonbank

intermediaries mostly deal with all types of loans i.e., short-term, medium-term and long-term loan

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