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Finance > Overview > Financial Institutions > Intermediary - non-banking



Non-Banking Financial Institutions

Non-banking Financial Institutions carry out financing activities but their resources are not directly obtained from the savers as debt. Instead, these Institutions mobilise the public savings for rendering other financial services including investment. All such Institutions are financial intermediaries and when they lend, they are known as Non-Banking Financial Intermediaries (NBFIs) or Investment Institutions.

  • UNIT TRUST OF INDIA

  • LIFE INSURANCE CORPORATION (LIC)

  • GENERAL INSURANCE CORPORATION (GIC)



Apart from these NBFIs, another part of Indian financial system consists of a large number of privately owned, decentralised, and relatively small-sized financial intermediaries. Most work in different, miniscule niches and make the market more broad-based and competitive. While some of them restrict themselves to fund-based business, many others provide financial services of various types. The entities of the former type are termed as "non-bank financial companies (NBFCs)". The latter type are called "non-bank financial services companies (NBFCs)".

Post 1996, Reserve Bank of India has set in place additional regulatory and supervisory measure that demand more financial discipline and transparency of decision making on the part of NBFCs. NBFCs regulations are being reviewed by the RBI from time to time keeping in view the emerging situations. Further, one can expect that some areas of co-operation between the Banks and NBFCs may emerge in the coming era of E-commerce and Internet banking.

 


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