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Investment Bankers
Investment banking is an advisory-based financial service for institutional investors, corporations, governments, and similar clients. Traditionally associated with corporate finance, such a bank might assist in raising financial capital by underwriting or acting as the client's Agency law, agent in the Issuer, issuance of debt or equity Security (finance), securities. An investment bank may also assist Company, companies involved in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and provide ancillary services such as Market maker, market making, trading of Derivative (finance), derivatives and Share capital, equity securities FICC services (fixed income instruments, Foreign exchange market, currencies, and Commodity, commodities) or research (macroeconomic, credit or equity research). Most investment banks maintain prime brokerage and asset management departments in conjunction with their Securities research, investment research businesses. As an industry, it is broken up into the Bulge Bracket ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Financial Service
Financial services are service (economics), economic services tied to finance provided by financial institutions. Financial services encompass a broad range of tertiary sector of the economy, service sector activities, especially as concerns financial management and consumer finance. The finance industry in its most common sense concerns commercial banks that provide market liquidity, derivative (finance), risk instruments, and broker, brokerage for large public company, public companies and multinational corporations at a macroeconomics, macroeconomic scale that impacts domestic politics and foreign relations. The extragovernmental power and scale of the finance industry remains an ongoing controversy in many industrialized Western economies, as seen in the American Occupy Wall Street civil protest movement of 2011. Styles of financial institution include credit union, bank, savings and loan association, trust company, building society, brokerage firm, payment processor, many ty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
