Financial Intermediaries

In its broadest sense, the term "intermediary" includes any person who serves to bring other persons together. In the world of corporate finance, a financial intermediary is an institution that acts as a middleman between savers and borrowers. Specifically, these institutions accumulate money from investors and lend it to borrowers. A person with extra money could seek out borrowers alone and bypass intermediaries altogether (Schenk). By removing the middleman, the saver would most likely receive …showed first 75 words of 635 total…

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