World Applied Sciences Journal 30 (11): 1587-1592, 2014
ISSN 1818-4952
© IDOSI Publications, 2014
DOI: 10.5829/idosi.wasj.2014.30.11.14218
Corresponding Author: Iskakov, T. Ryskulov Kazakh Economic University, Zhandosov, 55, Almaty, 050035, Kazakhstan.
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Forming Segments of the Financial Market at the Present Stage
of Kazakhstan’s Economy Development
Uzan Muldashevich Iskakov and Elvira Abdulmitovna Ruziyeva
T. Ryskulov Kazakh Economic University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Abstract: The value of financial market is especially relevant under conditions of market relations, since
ensuring continuity of financial resources formation, their effective investment and purposeful usage is made
possible due to financial market functioning. All this defines the role and importance of financial market in the
country economy as a whole. The financial market is an organized system of trading in financial instruments
of various markets: monetary, deposit, credit, currency, funds, insurance, pension, real estate, precious stones
and metals. The main function here is performed by financial institutions directing money flow from owners to
creditors, where payment tools and securities act as goods. As any other market, the financial market is aimed
at establishing direct relations between financial resources, buyers and sellers.
Key words: Financial market Financial instruments Segmentation of financial market Real-estate market
Market of precious metals and stones
INTRODUCTION taking into account the actual tendencies of national
Under the conditions of modern national economy The concept "financial market", as well as its
development, as well as the emerged trends of financial structuring is treated in different ways which is due to the
market globalizations, Kazakhstani financial market current international practice and specific development of
segmentation issues, organizations of financial each state’s economy. Financial market structuring is a
intermediaries’ activities considering the urgency of division into respective individual segments based on the
domestic financial market development become nature of the financial instruments that are traded in this
particularly relevant. financial market segment. Each segment has its own
Financial market is a key component of national specific characteristics of functioning, its own rules and
economy. It is the most important mechanism in the conditions of trading in financial instruments.
formation of sources of economic growth and The concept "financial market" is treated differently
development. Efficiently functioning financial market is to caused by prevailing definition of scientists-
accumulate available usable funds, transform them into representatives considering the specific development of
investments to ensure the distribution of financial capital each state economy. Thus, according to the definition
between the different sectors of the economy and, used in the IFRS: financial instrument is any contract that
ultimately, contribute to the economic growth of the simultaneously gives rise to a financial asset of one entity
government. Nowadays under conditions of globalization and a financial liability or equity instrument of another
and economic systems integration of countries, the entity [1]. Financial instruments are different forms of
financial market is a very complex mechanism which financial liabilities, both long-term and short-term which
hasn’t been described fully by any theory yet. The are the subject of purchasing and selling in the financial
matters of formation and structural conversion of market [2]. Russian scientists under the term of financial
Kazakhstani modern financial market, its formation of instruments understand various forms of short-and long-
infrastructural features require upgrading methods of term investments that are traded in the financial markets
organizing the Republican financial market functioning [3].
economy development.