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Vocabulary focus. Discovering connections




Text 1

READING

DISCOVERING CONNECTIONS

BANKING

 

 

1. Have you ever been to the bank? What did you go there for?

2. What different kinds of services do banks offer to the public?

3. How would you comment the saying “A banker is a man who lends you umbrella when the weather is fair, and takes it away from you when it rains”? Do you agree with it?

 

 

After reading the text choose the heading for each paragraph.

– Investment Banking

– Interest Rates

– Commercial Banking

– Universal Banking

– Central Banking

– Eurocurrency

 

1. A central bank fulfils a number of key roles in the economy, acting as a bankers’ bank and as a lender of last resort, being responsible for monetary creation, and having overall responsibility for monetary policy. The central bank can use control of interest rates, open market operations and required reserves to influence the monetary base and overall interest rates in the economy. In recent years, the interest rate has been prime instrument. By influencing the amount of real money in the economy, the central bank is able to influence aggregate demand, which in turn will influence prices. Thus the central bank has to balance the need to restrain inflation with the desire to allow economic growth.

2. Commercial or retail banks are businesses that trade in money. They receive and hold deposits, pay money according to customers' instructions, lend money, offer investment advice, exchange foreign currencies, and so on. They make a profit from the difference (known as a spread or a margin) between the interest rates they pay to lenders or depositors and those they charge to borrowers. Banks also create credit, because the money they lend, from their deposits is generally spent (either on goods or services, or to settle debts), and in this way transferred to another bank account - often by way of a bank transfer or a cheque (check) rather than the use of notes or coins - from where it can be lent to another borrower, and so on. When lending money, bankers have to find a balance between yield and risk, and between liquidity and different maturities.

3. Investment banks, often called merchant banks in Britain, raise funds for industry on the various financial markets, finance international trade, issue and underwrite securities, deal with takeovers and mergers, and issue government bonds. They also generally offer stock broking and portfolio management services to reach corporate and individual clients. Investment banks in the USA are similar, but they can only act as intermediaries offering advisory services, and do not offer loans themselves. Investment banks make their profits from the fees and commissions they charge for their services.

4. In the USA, the Glass-Steagall Act of 1934 enforced a strict separation between commercial banks and investment banks or stock broking firms. Yet the distinction between commercial and investment banking has become less clear in recent years. Deregulation in the USA and Britain is leading to the creation of 'financial supermarkets': conglomerates combining the services previously offered by banks, stockbrokers, insurance companies, and so on. In some European countries (notably Germany, Austria and Switzerland) there have always been universal banks combining deposit and loan banking with share and bond dealing and investment services.

5. A country’s minimum interest rate is usually fixed by the central bank. This is the discount rate, at which the central bank makes secured loans to commercial banks. Banks lend to a blue chip borrowers (very safe large companies) at the base rate or the prime rate; all other borrowers pay more, depending on their credit standing (or credit rating, or creditworthiness): the lender’s estimation of their present and future solvency. Borrowers can usually get a lower interest rate if the loan is secured or guaranteed by some kind of asset, known as collateral.

6. In most financial centers, there are also branches of lots of foreign banks, largely doing Eurocurrency business. A Eurocurrency is any currency held outside its country of origin. The first significant Eurocurrency market was for US dollars in Europe, but the name is now used for foreign currencies held anywhere in the world (e.g. yen in the US, euros in Japan). Since the US$ is the world’s most important trading currency – and because the US for many years had a huge trade deficit – there is a market of many billions of Eurodollars, including the oil-exporting coutries’ ‘petrodollars.’ Although a central bank can determne the minimum lending rate for its national currency it has no control over foreign currencies. Furthermore, banks are not obliged to deposit any of their Eurocurrency assets at 0% interest with the central bank, which means that they can usually offer better rates to borrowers and depositors than in the home country.

 

Ex. 1. The text contains a number of common verb-noun partnerships (e.g. to lend money, to finance international trade). Match up the verbs and nouns below to make common collocations. Give their Russian equivalents.

A B
1) influence 2) restrain 3) exchange 4) issue 5) make 6) offer 7) pay 8) raise 9) receive 10) underwrite 11) charge 12) do a) advice b) bonds c) business d) currencies e) deposits f) funds g) interest h) loans i) profits j) security issues k) monetary base l) inflation

 

Ex. 2. Match the definitions in A with the words from the text in B.

A B
1) buying and selling government bonds on the open market a) collateral
2) the currency supplied by the Central bank both to the commercial banks and to private circulation b) to restrain
3) to place money in a bank; or money placed in a bank c) deposit
4) the money used in countries other than ones own d) foreign currencies
5) how much money a loan pays, expressed as a percentage e) blue chip
6) available cash, and how easily other assets can be turned into cash f) conglomerate
7) the date when a loan becomes repayable g) liquidity
8) to guarantee to buy all the new shares that a company issues, if they cannot be sold to the public h) open market operations
9) when a company combines with another one i) maturity
10) buying and selling stocks or shares for clients j) portfolio management
11) taking care of all a client's investments k) monetary base
12) the ending or relaxing of legal restrictions l) to underwrite
13) a group of companies, operating in different fields, that have joined together m) merge
14) a company considered to be without risk n) takeover
15) ability to pay liabilities when they become due o) stock broking
16) anything that acts as a security or a guarantee for a loan p) deregulation
17) any currency held outside its country of origin q) solvency
18) when a company buys or acquires another one r) yield
19) to hold sth back s) Eurocurrency

 

Ex. 3. Write down the English equivalents for the following. Use the text and Ex. 1 – 2 for references.

Последний кредитор в критической ситуации; резервная норма; сдерживать инфляцию; обеспечивать экономический рост; разница между себестоимостью и продажной ценой; срок погашения платежа; погасить долги; доход по ценным бумагам с фиксированным процентом; поглощение; слияние; учетная процентная ставка; имущество; обеспечение кредита, залог; гарантировать, ручаться; кредитоспособность, платежеспособность (3 варианта); евровалюта; торговый дефицит.

 




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