Money Market Mutual Fund in Iran’s Rial Interbank Market

Abstract

Management of liquidity is one of the banks’ most important duties for which they require some instruments. In recent years, interbank market has managed to perform effective roles in supply of banks’ financial resources and management of liquidity. As a regulatory body, the central bank bears all issues related thereto and is able to play efficient roles and assist its members in applying money policies in this market by generation of new instruments. Money market Mutual fund is one of the most important instruments held by interbank markets applied in both Islamic and western countries. Using descriptive-analytical, content analysis, and library-based methods, the present article seeks to authenticate the hypothesis that the central bank is able to make use of instruments of Money Market Mutual Fund together with other tools in this market to make more effective the role played by interbank market in money market policies. Results of this article indicate that the Central Bank of Iran is able to make required arrangements for application of Money Market Mutual Fund by designing apposite policies for formation of this fund.

Keywords

• interbank market
• mutual fund
• central bank
• money market instruments
• islamic banking