Financial institutions and markets /
Ben Hunt and Chris Terry
- Sixth Edition
- Australia : Cengage Learning, c2011.
- xx, 444 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Includes index.
1. Overview of the financial system -- 2. The payments system -- 3. Authorised deposit-taking institutions -- 4. The stability of deposit-taking institutions -- 5. Introduction to markets -- 6. Funds management -- 7. The money market -- 8. The bond market -- 9. Shares -- 10. The share market -- 11. Foreign exchange and global capital markets -- 12. Introduction to interest rate risk management -- 13. Financial futures -- 14. Swaps -- 15. Exchange-traded options
Thoroughly updated, this new sixth edition focuses on Australia's financial system. It examines the financial system's three main functions; settlement, flow-of-funds and risk transfer; and provides a clear and comprehensive integrated account of the activities of Australia's financial institutions and markets