History of Philippine Financial System

Secondly, out of the twenty-five stockholders of the Bank, five of these were government owned. Thus showing support of the Bank by subscribing to one-fifth of its $35 million (Schlesinger 74). In addition, among the Bank’s functions was to hold all government money, sell all government bonds, and make commercial loans. However, no voters could dictate its policies or reign in its power, due to its privately owned status (Roughshod 2). Finally, the government also allowed bank notes to be used as payment for taxes.

There are various categories of banking; these include retail banking, directly dealing with small businesses and persons. Commercial and Corporate banking which offers services to medium and large businesses (Koch & MacDonald 2010). Private banking, deals with individuals, offering them one on one service. The last category is investment banking. These help clients to raise capital and often invest in financial markets. Most global banking institutions provide all these services combined. With all these institutions in existence within the same localities and offering similar services, there is a need to regulate the industry so as to protect the consumer and provide fair working environment for all banks (Du & Girma, 2011).

Financial crisis is really a major concern for all economies in the world. Every time a crisis occurs, companies, banks and financial institutions should draw their own lessons, because if the lessons are not recognized, they may still go on the trail of failure of

Financial markets are crucial to promoting greater economic efficiency by channeling funds from people who do not have a productive use for them to those who do. Well functioning financial markets are a key factor in producing high economic growth, and poorly performing financial markets, vice versa. Financial markets and intermediaries have the basic function of getting people together by moving funds from those who have a surplus of funds to those who have a shortage of funds.

a) Commercial Banks. More than 10,000 commercial banks exist in the U.S.; all banks must be chartered. Seventy percent of all commercial banks are state banks; most large banks are national banks, chartered by the federal government.

Personal banking * Corporate banking * Premier banking * International banking * Private banking

The overall development of an economy is a major factor that has significant impacts on the development of the economy's financial markets. Since well-functioning financial systems offer good and easily accessible information, they lower the costs of transaction. This in turn enhances resource allocation and strengthens economic growth. The financial services industry consists of various systems such as stock markets and banking systems that enhance growth and help in poverty reduction. However, commercial banks tend to dominate the financial system during low levels of economic development while stock markets become more active and effective during periods of high levels of economic development ("Financial Sector", n.d.). The other important systems in the financial services industry include sound macroeconomic policies, shareholder protection, and good legal systems.

The United States of America’s financial system comprises of the banking system, financial markets and nonbank financial institutions. (Lee, 2001) Banking system furthermore consists of the Federal Reserve System, foreign banks, commercial banks, offshore banks, credit unions and saving institutions. Financial markets consist of debt and money markets, equities markets and futures and options markets. Lastly, nonbank financial institutions consist of asset-based finance companies, commercial lending companies and insurance companies. This paper is an endeavor to understand the workings and structure of the Federal Reserve Banks of USA.

One cannot say that U.S banking system is designed to fail; however, it is the relentless deregulation in the financial sector and competing for financial sector activities in the globalized financial market as means towards higher growth resulted in its instability over the centuries. The U.S. central bank and federal government did not see the impending crisis on the horizon due to the deregulation of financial market. The central bank believed that there could be evolving economic imbalances or risk in the financial markets, but that these were best managed by market forces themselves. But they failed to realize that some time market fails on its own. Deregulation of the financial sector was initiated and reinforced through legislative changes, followed by regulatory policies consistent with the philosophy of deregulation. As the US was losing comparative advantage in agriculture, manufacturing, and services to developing and emerging market economies, while they continued to have advantage in the financial sector. Hence, the United States perhaps felt that national interest lies in their dominating financial sector activity, and hence development of the financial sector was coterminous with their national interest. This approach could have led to a race to the bottom in financial sector regulation in their jurisdiction. The US banking system and financial sector was source of so much instability was due to relentless deregulation of the financial market.

1(a) Financial System is a complex yet connected system that consist of financial intermediaries, financial institutions and financial assets.

Introduction Although many still think of the Philippines as an agricultural economy, strictly speaking, it is not. Agriculture, fishery and forestry directly account for just one-fifth (20 percent) of the economy’s aggregate domestic output (GDP). Ever since the 1960s, the direct share of agriculture in the GDP had fallen below one-third, and by 1981, the sector’s share had decreased to only 23 percent. Growth from this level was rather anemic, averaging 1.7 percent per annum during the period 1981-2003, compared to the average overall GDP growth of 2.6% over the same period. While agriculture output was largely

HBL was the first commercial bank established in Pakistan in 1947. Over the years, the bank has expanded its branch network and has become the largest private retail bank in terms of branches and deposits. Its customer base currently exceeds five million.

When talking about Philippine Administrative System, first thing that comes to mind is about the government and its political divisions in the country. It is about the nations’s political hierarchy such as the central government, provinces, municipalities and barangay. However, these divisions and subdivisions can be attributed to our past history. It is not a plant that simply blooms from nowhere. The Philippine Administrative System is dynamic, shaped and evolved through time. From Spanish colonial period to the present administration, the mode of bureacracy is adopted, patterned and improved depending on the needs and wants of the administration. Needs, in terms of the welfare of the society. Wants,

Financial systems and financial regulators are entities setup by the government of a country to ensure the availability and flow of financial resources in a fair and lawful manner without exploitation or monopolization of the resource by individuals or organizations. The task of ensuring the availability of finance and its transference is taken up by the financial systems of a country while the task of monitoring and regulating is taken up by the financial regulator.

Singapore Financial System is one of the world’s largest financial systems. According to Mishkin (2009), Financial System refers to a system that consists of the markets and institutional units that interact for the purpose to provide facilities such as payment and transfer systems and organizing the funds for investment from saved surplus funds to units who have shortage