The financial system assists in channeling funds from surplus units to deficit units. It mobilizes savings and allocates capital resources productively to accelerate economic development. The financial system has objectives like accelerating growth, encouraging industrialization, providing support to various economic sectors like industry and agriculture. It also aims to finance housing, small industries, and develop backward/rural areas. The financial system plays a key role by providing a link between savers and investors, encouraging savings and investment, promoting diverse financial markets and institutions, and influencing the pace of economic development. It performs controlling functions through regulatory bodies and promotional functions like managing payments and information systems.