The students will be enabled to understand the Indian financial system comprehensively, including its components, regulatory bodies, banking, non-banking institutions, money markets, debt markets, and capital markets, fostering insights into economic development.
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 Financial Markets (Theory)  | 
 CO13: Develop an insight about the financial system and its regulatory bodies. CO14: Compare the functions and need of the establishment of various banking and non banking financial institutions. CO15: Assess the characteristics, Instruments and tools of managing liquidity in money market. CO16: Examine basic features of a debt securities offered by corporate or governments and to familiarize with the primary and secondary markets for government securities and corporate debt. CO17: Analyze structure, functions and regulation of Indian securities market. and also learning about various investment options available CO18: Contribute effectively in course-specific interaction 
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 Approach in teaching: Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Practical cases, Power point presentation. Learning activities for the students: Self-learning assignments, Seminar presentation, Live practical problems analysis  | 
 CA Test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Assignments, Presentation.  | 
•	Components and Functions, Financial System and Economic Development, Weaknesses of Indian Financial System
•	Financial Regulatory Institutions in India - RBI, SEBI, IRDA, PFRDA - Objectives and Functions, Non-Statutory Bodies -AMFI, Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA)
•	Banking Institutions: Functions of banks; Classification of Banks : Commercial banks, Cooperative banks, differentiated banks .
•	Non-banking Financial Institutions:  Provident Fund, Pension Fund, Insurance Companies, Mutual Funds, Credit Rating Agencies, Merchant Bank, Venture Capital Funds - Objectives  and Functions ,Recent Developments of Financial institutions
•	Introduction, Basic Characteristics of Money Market  Money Market  Intermediaries
•	Treasury Bills, Types of T- Bills, Commercial papers, Commercial Bills, Certificates of Deposits, Call / Notice Money Market, , Money Market Mutual Funds, Role of RBI in money market.
•	   Introduction, Features of Debt Market
•	   Money Market v/s Debt Market in India
•	   Instruments and Players in Debt Market-Government Security
           Market,Corporate Bond       Market,Public Sector Undertaking Bonds Market,
•	   Bonds-Types, Features
•	    Classification and Importance of Capital Market
•	    Primary Market: Functions and methods of public issue -IPO, FPO,OFS, Private Placement, Right issues, Players in new issue markets
•	Secondary Market: Meaning and Functions of Stock Exchange, Difference between new issue markets and stock exchange, Relationship between new issue market and stock exchange -
•	Recent Developments in Indian Stock Exchanges 
•	K.Natrajan Gordon, Financial Markets and Services , Himalaya publishing house
•	Pathak Bharti V, , Indian Financial System, Pearson Education, New Delhi
•	Gupta N., Gupta Shashi K., Aggarwal N, Financial Institutions and Markets, Kalyani publishers 
Suggested Readings:
•	Agarwal M.R,. Security analysis and portfolio management , Garima Publications
•	Bhole L.M., Financial Institutions and Markets structure, growth and Innovation, Tata Mc Graw Hill, New Delhi.
•	National Stock Exchange of India Limited, Capital Market Core Module. 
E-Content:
•	https://www.bseindia.com/static/about/BSE_Ebooks.aspx [2]
	https://www.bseindia.com/ [3]
	https://www.nseindia.com/ [4]
	https://www.sebi.gov.in/ [5] 
Reference Journals:
•	Journal of Financial Markets : https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-financial-markets [6]
•	Indian journal of research in Capital markets : http://indianjournalofcapitalmarkets.com [7]
Links:
[1] https://finance.iisuniv.ac.in/courses/subjects/financial-markets-theory
[2] https://www.bseindia.com/static/about/BSE_Ebooks.aspx
[3] https://www.bseindia.com/
[4] https://www.nseindia.com/
[5] https://www.sebi.gov.in/
[6] https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-financial-markets
[7] http://indianjournalofcapitalmarkets.com
[8] https://finance.iisuniv.ac.in/academic-year/2024-2025