Disintermediation of banks – causes and consequences
Disintermediation of banks – causes and consequences

Summary/Abstract: In the age of financialization, i.e. since 1970s, in the financial systems of individual countries occurred many tendencies and phenomena influencing shape and functioning of financial intermediaries. The aim of the paper is to characterize one of the most important among them, namely the process of bank disintermediation, visible in financial systems of many countries. The process may be interpreted and analyzed in many dimensions. Its defining and understanding is of crucial importance when one assesses its consequences for the financial stability and access to financial services. In the paper disintermediation is considered in the context of diminishing trust in financial institutions and in connection with the process of financialization. After discussing definitions and features of disintermediation, there are characterized in details causes and consequences of the process. In final section some conclusions with reference to non-banking financial institutions are drawn.

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