Financial development mainly focuses on the following aspects.

Expanding the areas of financial intermediation

You can define this by the number of categories of capital that are the subject of financial transactions. They range from government debt to financing the riskiest innovations.

Deepening of the financial markets

This is determined for the individual areas by the spread of the instruments used. It is from short-term bank debt to the most complex contingent assets.

Types of economic actors

Some examples of these are the central banks, states, companies, households, banks, and other financial institutions. It also includes foreign investors.