• Mohammad Blankenship posted an update 2 years ago

    Financial services are basically the financial services offered by the financial sector, which covers a wide spectrum of companies that deal with money, such as banks, credit card companies, credit unions and mortgage companies. It is one of the most important sectors of the economy and contributes to the growth of the nation. It includes banking, insurance, financial planning, asset management, estate planning and pension funds, among others. It has played a pivotal role in all economic activities in a country. The key role it has taken till now in our lives cannot be ignored.

    The main role of the financial sector is to keep track of the assets of individuals and create financial instruments to earn interest. All this has been made possible through the commercial banks. Commercial banks are the financial intermediaries who lend money at high rates of interest to businesses. They also provide credit facilities, and issue other financial instruments, such as government bonds, stock market indices, and bonds, to businesses.

    In such a scenario, it becomes extremely difficult for a country’s economy to pull itself out of the weak financial sector. Since the economy depends on the flow of finance , any kind of blockage can severely hamper the overall performance of the economy. As a result, the government takes various steps to improve the overall condition of the economy of the nation. It does this by controlling the number of commercial banks and promoting the growth of the economy.

    There are various measures to boost the financial sector, such as introducing the liquidity cycle, introducing the capital market package, introducing the supervisory mechanisms, liberalizing the corporate governance structures and introducing the regulatory frameworks. However, one of the most significant steps taken to improve the overall financial system of the economy is the financial sector planning. This is primarily undertaken to enhance the productivity of the economy. It is also meant to strengthen the ties between the financial institutions of the country and help them work together to make the economy function smoothly.

    Financial Sector Planning is undertaken in many different forms. For instance, it can be planned as a way of enhancing corporate productivity, helping businesses grow, and facilitating business development. Other measures included in the sector planning include enhancing the productivity of labor and thereby, enhancing the income of the people living off the wages and salaries that they get from working in the financial sector. The other measure can be capitalizing on the strength of the non-financial sector. This can be done through the enhancement of the output of the stock market capitalization.

    This leads to increase in the employment rate and an increase in the purchasing capacity of the people. The other measure that helps the economy is the introduction of the fiscal policy. This helps to control the inflation of the economy and hence, helps to achieve the objectives of the financial sector. The other measures that help to improve the economy include increasing the export sector and decreasing the import sector. This in turn, leads to increase in the production and employment rate, and also to the enhancement of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

    Institutional investors, banks, large organizations, etc. play a major role in the financial sector development. In fact, the present-day financial system is characterized by inter-bank transactions, facilitation of financial sector loans and guarantees, etc. The main thing here is that the institutions, like banks and large financial corporations, play a vital role in stabilizing the economy.

    All the points mentioned above should be kept in mind while making investments. The size of the investment is very important in the current scenario. Thus, investors should choose projects according to their own risk tolerance levels. Also, the projects should have long-term benefits in view of the potential profits that might come with it.