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Investment Banking
By gnass | August 25, 2008
Investment banking is offered by some banks and financial institutions to government or private sectors to raise funds by issuing and selling shares and securities in the capital market. The securities include both debts and equity shares. These banks which offer investment banking provide advices on acquisitions and mergers too.
Almost all the banks who are into investment banking offers solutions and advices for acquisitions, mergers, divestiture, derivatives, foreign exchange, fixed income, and commodity and equity shares. Investment banking deals with mutual funds, pension funds, hedge funds and many other services. This banking does not include regular savings account or other retail services.
Some of the big names in the field of investment banking include Deutsche Bank, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, UBS AG and Lehman Brothers. The financial institutions who offer investment banking offer high quality services to their clients. The services ranges from transaction expertise, capital raising services in public markets, including private placements of equity, convertible and mezzanine debt, acquisitions and mergers to restructuring of advisory services. These institutions also offer advices for savings and investments.
The world wide investment banking revenue has come up to $84.3 billion in the year 2007. The growth is steady and the market is expanding considerably. Despite this growth in the revenue many companies and investment banks have suffered losses in securities. Investment banking is one of the most globalised industries and is thus continuously exposed to respond to any new developments and improvements in the global financial market.
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