Concept information
Preferred term
retail capital markets
Definition
- Retail capital markets are national and international exchanges, mostly formal though informal in some cases, where individuals can invest or obtain funds; because of the small size of most of these transactions, usually financial intermediaries such as banks or share brokers are involved. Retail capital markets can be broken into two broad segments: (1) debt, which refers to any agreement that obligates a borrower to repay a lender principal borrowed, along with a charge for borrowing the money, typically interest on the principal; and (2) equity, which refers to the issuance of shares in a business enterprise that promises no fixed principal or interest payments but entitles shareholders to the value of the portion of the enterprise that they own. [Source: Encyclopedia of Business in Today's World; Retail Capital Markets]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/retail_capital_markets
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