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The Money Market in Pakistan

Table of Contents

Sr. No.

Title

Page No.

I.

INTRODUCTION

1

Definition

1

Primary Market

1

Secondary Market

2

Purpose of Money Market

2

Major Players

3

II.

MONEY MARKET INSTRUMENTS

4

T-Bills

4

FIBs

4

New Government Bonds

5

TFCs

5

COIs

6

WAPDA Bonds

7

KESC Bonds

8

III.

TYPES OF TRANSACTIONS

9

Repurchase Agreements

9

Call

11

Clean Lending/ Borrowing

12

Security Lending/ Borrowing

12

Outright Sale/ Purchase of Government Securities

13

IV.

OTHER TRANSACTIONS

15

Coupon Washing

15

Security Parking

15

Mismatching Transactions

15

Bond Strategies Based on Implied Forward Rates

16

V.

REGULATORY FRAMEWORK

17

The State Bank of Pakistan

17

The Ministry of Finance

19

VI.

IMPACT OF EXTERNAL FACTORS ON THE MONEY MARKET.

20

SBP Borrowing for Commodity Operations

20

Year/ Quarter-End Requirements

21

SBP Borrowing for Budgetary Support

21

Impact of Foreign Exchange Market

22

VII.

RISKS INVOLVED IN MONEY MARKET

23

VIII.

BROKERAGE RULES

24

IX.

APPENDIX

26

X

SLR & Discount Rate

28-29

XI

Coupon Washing & Security Parking

30-31

I. INTRODUCTION

Definition

The money market is a wholesale market for low risk, highly liquid, short-term� & long term debt instruments. It serves as an avenue through which banks and financial institutions can offload their excess liquidity or meet their funding requirements. To the government an organized money market represents a means for it to implement its monetary policies in a more efficient manner. Moreover, it provides it with a liquid market for securities through which it can finance its own borrowing requirements.

Trading in the money market only began in Pakistan in February 1991 with the switchover of the Government from on-tap to auction system. As per the previous system interest rates on T-Bills were fixed at 6% and anyone could buy as...