| 1. Participants | Individual Investors, Financial Institutions, Banks, Foreign Investors, Corporate Groups etc. | reserve Bank Of India, Commercial Banks, Financial Institutions, Mutual Fund Houses, Corporate Groups. Individual Investors are not allowed to participate. |
| 2. Instruments Traded | Bonds, Debentures, Equity Shares, Preference Shares etc. | Commercial Papers, Treasury Bills, Certificates of Deposits etc. |
| 3. Investment Outlay | Value of units of security is low, t does not require huge financial outlay.
| Instruments are quite expensive, transactions entail huge sums of money. |
| 4. Liquidity of Instruments | Comparatively less liquid | Highly liquid |
| 5. Safety | More risky. | Less risky because instruments of money market are highly secure due to soundness of issuer. |
| 6. Duration of Securities traded | Medium or long term funds | Short term funds upto one year. |
| 7. Expected Return | Higher returns on investment | Low returns |
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