Department of Investment Banking

Investment Banking as term suggests, is concerned with the primary function of assisting the capital market in its function of capital intermediation, i.e., the movement of financial resources from those who have them (the Investors), to those who need to make use of them for generating GDP (the Issuers). Banking and financial institution on the one hand and the capital market on the other are the two broad platforms of institutional that investment for capital flows in economy. Therefore, it could be inferred that investment banks are those institutions that are counterparts of banks in the capital markets in the function of intermediation in the resource allocation

Introduction.…………………………………………………….……………..….3
1. Banking industry…………………………………………….…………………4
1.1 What is Investment banking……………………………………….….…4
1.2 Stock market participants………………………..…………….…..….....6
1.3 Types of market………………………………………………….......….8
2. Department of Investment Banking………………………………………….11
2.1 Corporate finance………………………………………………………11
2.2 Sales and trading……………………………………………….………12
2.3 Research……………………………………………………..…………14
Conclusion………………………………………………………...……….…..…16
References………………………………………………………..………….……18
Glossary…………………………………………………….………………......…19
Appendices……………………………………………………..………….…...…20