investment banking?

Question by fei_huang7: investment banking?
what is investment banking, please provide examples and web links. thanks

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Answer by csanda
An investment bank is a bank that arranges, underwrites and facilitates issuance of new securities, then usually brokers secondary trades on exchanges or over-the-counter. They may, or may not, be attached to a bigger financial institution.

Examples are pure investment banks are:
Goldman Sachs
Merrill Lynch
JP Morgan
Lehman Brothers
Bear Stearns

More integrated investment banks are:
Citibank
UBS
Credit Suisse (CSFB)
ING
Maquarie Bank
Bank of America

You can google the links yourself.

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One Response to “investment banking?”

  1. It’s the side of banking that makes an investment in a company, rather than traditional commercial banking which deals with banking tellers, deposits, withdrawals and other everyday banking activities.