What is a Financial Intermediary?
What is a Financial Intermediary?
A financial intermediary refers to an institution that acts as a middleman between two parties in order to facilitate a financial transaction.
The institutions that are commonly referred to as financial intermediaries include commercial banks, investment banks, mutual funds, and pension funds. They reallocate uninvested capital to productive sectors of the economy through debts and equity.
In simple terms, financial intermediaries channel funds from individuals or corporations with surplus capital to other individuals or corporations that require cash to carry out certain economic activities.
A financial intermediary performs the following functions:
Asset Storage - Providing Loans
- Investments
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