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A community portal about Investment banking with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Investment banks help companies and governments and their agencies to raise money by issuing and selling securities in the primary market. The sector takes the North American Industry Classification System code 523110. They assist public and private corporations in raising funds in the capital markets, as well as in providing strategic advisory services for mergers, acquisitions and other types of financial transactions.
Recently stock markets shows a falling tendency and investors loose their money. People show less reliability in stocks and the old proverb came in force that the money from stock exchanges will not useful for emergencies. This is the time to buy more stocks, if you have enough money. But you could not expect a soon income. Nobody can predict when the stock market starts to go upwards. In this phenomenon what can we do? Which option an investor should take? The following three options I... Read Full Story
Nortel has come out with ~3400 patents. All About Nortel reports that these will be assessed for its value and the strategy for sale will be decided after their consultant provides inputs on the... IIMA, Management, Economics, Telecom World, Movies, Life ... Read Full Story
There has been some recent “conversations” on the Digital Art Guild Yahoo email group lately about certain types of filters used in digital art. One of the fine artists there – Dolores Kaufman – had set up a challenge on her website with several images and then her final finished art piece made from those images. The challenge was to copy what she had created. This was all in response to someone who said something to the effect that using filters in Photoshop wasn’t art. I agree with that... Read Full Story
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Home / BANKING AND FINANCIAL NEWS , BREAKING NEWS , PRESS RELEASE / Lehman Brothers Filing Chapter 11 - US Banking System To Reorganize
September 15, 2008
Financial lenders are facing a major industry reorganization Monday that promises to change the face of banking in the United States.
By Sean Maroney
WASHINGTON, DC (RUSHPRNEWS) 09/15/2008 –Early Monday, the U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers announced that it will file for bankruptcy. In a... Read Full Story
Mobile Money Transfer Report Profiting from cross-border remittance and global banking
Despite the impact of the 2008-2009 global downturn, remittances as a source of liquidity will likely prove to be resilient, and could potentially play a role in restoring or increasing prosperity across regions. Whereas the sharp contraction of credit in the global banking sector has directly and instantaneously ravaged FDI alongside private debt and equity flows, remittances to the developing world are... Read Full Story
When selling all or part of a business, identifying qualified buyers is very important to an effective sales process. Before I go into my process I would like to share a story that involves my joining CFA in 2004 and being interviewed by a senior investment banker from our Dallas office.
When I was explaining to him my “deal experience” from the four prior years he responded, “Oh, you have been working as a business broker”. I then asked him to explain to me how he distinguished between... Read Full Story
By Richard Stooker Most financial writers regard "risk" as a simple mathematical construct that measure the up and down price swings of a investment. In the real world, risk means danger. Real investment risk is the business risk faced by the companies you invest in. What is your risk when you make an investment? Most likely, the first thing that came to your mind is, "losing money," but we need to be more specific than that. You feel as though you've lost money when the resale, market price... Read Full Story
By Bushman If you are looking for good safe investments, you are not alone because everyone is looking too. Many people work hard to earn money to provide for their families' well being and security and for the future too. There are many safe investment options from which you can select. The stock market is full of possibilities. Any money you put into an account or stocks is likely to be safe. Although it is not always easy to know which of these stocks good investments are and which are not... Read Full Story
Down economic cycles can offer excellent buying opportunities for well positioned companies but they may create funding challenges to getting a deal closed. When credit is easy and senior debt lenders are liberal with leverage and terms, most buyers don’t need additional help in funding their deals. In a down economy, it’s quite a different matter and mezzanine financing may be the solution.
Mezzanine financing is also known as subordinated debt and is junior to the security... Read Full Story
CEOs and CFOs of middle market companies regularly make important decisions to engage a variety of Professional Service Organizations (PSO) to perform necessary corporate, transactional and financial planning tasks. Yet, the engagement decision to hire a particular investment bank, wealth management advisor or consulting firm, is often made without examining whether the new PSO has an existing working relationship with the referring PSO already providing services to the company.
Asking... Read Full Story
