Definitions for investment bank
in·vest·ment bank

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1. investment banknoun

   A financial institution that deals with raising capital, trading in securities and managing corporate mergers and acquisitions.

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1. investment bank

   Investment banking pertains to certain activities of a financial services company or a corporate division that consist in advisory-based financial transactions on behalf of individuals, corporations, and governments. Traditionally associated with corporate finance, such a bank might assist in raising financial capital by underwriting or acting as the client's agent in the issuance of debt or equity securities. An investment bank may also assist companies involved in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and provide ancillary services such as market making, trading of derivatives and equity securities, FICC services (fixed income instruments, currencies, and commodities) or research (macroeconomic, credit or equity research). Most investment banks maintain prime brokerage and asset management departments in conjunction with their investment research businesses. As an industry, it is broken up into the Bulge Bracket (upper tier), Middle Market (mid-level businesses), and boutique market (specialized businesses). Unlike commercial banks and retail banks, investment banks do not take deposits. From the passage of Glass–Steagall Act in 1933 until its repeal in 1999 by the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act, the United States maintained a separation between investment banking and commercial banks. Other industrialized countries, including G7 countries, have historically not maintained such a separation. As part of the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (Dodd–Frank Act of 2010), the Volcker Rule asserts some institutional separation of investment banking services from commercial banking.All investment banking activity is classed as either "sell side" or "buy side". The "sell side" involves trading securities for cash or for other securities (e.g. facilitating transactions, market-making), or the promotion of securities (e.g. underwriting, research, etc.). The "buy side" involves the provision of advice to institutions that buy investment services. Private equity funds, mutual funds, life insurance companies, unit trusts, and hedge funds are the most common types of buy-side entities. An investment bank can also be split into private and public functions with a screen separating the two to prevent information from crossing. The private areas of the bank deal with private insider information that may not be publicly disclosed, while the public areas, such as stock analysis, deal with public information. An advisor who provides investment banking services in the United States must be a licensed broker-dealer and subject to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) regulation.

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1. investment bank

   A form of community bank or nationalized bank in each country of the world to ensure profits from all forms of banking are used to invest and develop transparent and sustainable unity government, sustainable infrastructure and sustainable countries and are distributed according to transparent and auditable data, fact, information, research, requirement and statistics at a local, regional and national level.

   The national investment bank is leading the way in cocreating sustainable infrastructure within our countries.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on January 22, 2021  

How to pronounce investment bank?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of investment bank in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of investment bank in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of investment bank in a Sentence

1. Jonathan Fearon:

   One way (to boost capital) is to downsize the investment bank, the other is to raise capital. I would not be surprised to see a mixture of these two.

2. Chintan Joshi:

   His appointment will indicate a greater commitment to the IB (investment bank), but then Barclays' profitability problems are linked to the IB and not the traditional bank.

3. Tu Zhengfeng:

   We're moving toward the structure of a global investment bank, it's increasingly important to identify a company's intrinsic value, and you need expertise to do that.

4. Graham Barrow:

   The bank decided to go for becoming a global investment bank, they were compromised.

5. Thomas Gottstein:

   We continue to believe wealth management is one of the most attractive segments in financial services, notably in Asia Pacific, and we also expect to further expand the connectivity between our investment bank and the wealth management-related divisions.

References

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   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investment_Bank