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Financial intermediation

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Definition

Activity whereby an institutional unit acquires financial assets and, at the same time, takes on liabilities on its own behalf via financial operations on the market. The assets and liabilities of financial intermediaries have different characteristics, which assumes that in the financial intermediation process, the funds raised are transformed or grouped together according to their due date, volume, and degree of risk.