Investment Banking Career Guides

1. What is Investment Banking? Investment Banking is mostly an advisory function where banks help their corporate clients with raising debt or equity, and with mergers, acquisitions, restructuring, leveraged finance etc. Investment Banking is typically part of a bank’s corporate …

Understanding M&A The M&A team is a product group within the investment banking divisions of financial institutions responsible for assisting clients with corporate mergers or acquisitions. When a company decides to merge with another business, there is a lot of …

1. What is DCM (Debt Capital Markets)? Debt and Equity are the primary sources of capital for corporations. Debt is cheaper and interest payments are tax deductible which makes it an attractive option (when used in moderation) to fund business …

1. What is Equity Capital Markets (ECM)? The Equity Capital Markets team advises clients on the issuance of equity or equity linked products and assists in the execution and syndication of such an issuance. Equity issuance can take the form …

What is Sales & Trading? The Sales & Trading (S&T) division at a bank is responsible for market-making and executing equity, fixed income, derivatives, commodity and other such trades on behalf of clients. Let’s break that statement down: Sales and …

1. What is Leveraged Finance? Leveraged Finance is essentially the use of high levels of debt for financing strategic corporate actions. These actions could be things like acquisitions, share repurchases, recapitalisations, capex and so on. Leveraged financing differs from normal …

Project finance is an exciting and challenging career that offers an opportunity to young professionals to develop the analytical and quantitative skills necessary to excel in banking. With a healthy work life balance and lucrative pay packages, project finance exists …

Investment Banking interview questions broadly come in two flavors: Behavioral, Personality and Fit Questions Technical Questions that include modelling, logical reasoning, finance concepts, etc. The behavioral questions are, in fact, common across all front-end finance roles so we will cover …

(Note: This is a list of technical/ reference books for Investment Banking. If you are looking for fascinating real-world tales from the world of banking and finance, check out this other list.) Investment Banking, as an industry, has been the …

Investment Banking is still one of the hardest jobs to break into. While many young graduates are flocking to tech these days, there has been no decline in the number of finance hopefuls. Especially since young graduates and whiz kids …

The Financial Modeling & Valuation Analyst is the premiere certification offered by the Corporate Finance Institute. With over 100,000+ student enrolments each year from 170 countries, it is certainly witnessing a surge in popularity. The FMVA is a relatively new …

Canada is an advanced, developed economy with a strong service sector as well as substantial natural resources. This mix of old and new industries makes Canada rather unique and perhaps comparable only to Australia in terms of its fundamental economic …

Singapore – the Lion City of South East Asia and one of the world’s major financial hubs. Over the last half century, the city has emerged as a global shipping hub and the financial capital of the South East Asian …