After reading this chapter, you will be able to: Define money, its functions, and its characteristics; describe various types of money; specify how the Bank of Canada manages the money supply and regulates the Canadian banking system; compare and contrast banks, trust companies, and credit unions/caisses populaires;...
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Chapter Fifteen
Money and the Financial System
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$100,000
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• NextCard markets its credit card solely on the Web and receives between 80,000 and 100,000 applications per month
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Source: Tom Maguire, “Click Here and Charge,”
American Demographics, January 1999.
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• To be the sole issuer of currency
• To administer the public debt
• To oversee the administration of the clearing and settlement systems
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Source: www.cdnpay.ca/eng/pud/Intro
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$3,097
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ABM Use in Canada
• There are bout 21,000 ABMs across Canada
•Canadians are relatively heavier users of ABMs than Americans
•Canadian carried out over 1.25 billion ABM transactions in 2000
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Source: http://www.demographics.com/publications/ad/99_ad/ 9902_ad/ad990205d.htm, March 15, 1999.
PC Banking
• Estimates indicate that the number of North American households doing PC banking jumped from 4.8 million to more than 10 million by the end
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Hill’s new company likely to need?
c Which single financial institution is likely to
best meet Hill’s small company’s needs now?
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In what areas of industries are economists likely to be asked to provide economic
projections.?
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Additional Discussion Questions and Exercises
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b issuance of currency.
c oversight of the payments and clearing system.
d monetary policy.