THE ROLE OF COMMERCIAL BANKS IN EQUITY MARKET DEVELOPMENT AND FUNCTIONING
The article touches upon the basic notions of the equity market and the bank financial services in equity market mainly in the Samara region. These notions in the Russian economics are indivisible, due to the fact that it is the banks that are the principle participants in equity market, though the intense activity of the banks in the equity market has decreased owning to the financial crisis. The interest of the business banks in the emission of their own securities and their distribution at the open market are determined by a number of circumstances, which are mentioned in the article. Though the Samara equity market is just developing, it depends on the world equity market but it also has its peculiar features. The article also tells us about the activity categories in equity market, that are the concern of the business banks only. The important aim is the restoration of the work of the financial market as a necessary condition of the functioning of the bank system, that will lead to the rise of the activity in equity market.