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  • Investment Banking

    Investment Banking

    Investment banks help companies issue securities, help investors purchase securities, manage financial assets, trade securities and provide finical advice. The leading investment banks including Merrill Lynch, Salomon Smith Barney, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and Goldman Sachs are said to be in the bulge bracket. Other investment banks are regionally oriented or situated in the middle market (e.g. Piper Jaffray). Others are small, specified firms called boutiques, which might be oriented toward bond trading, M&A advisory,

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    Essay Length: 325 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: Jon
  • Investment Banking

    Investment Banking

    A Clockwork Orange A Clockwork Orange is a controversial work in which the setting is in a futuristic society in which, political powers have subsided and lawlessness, violence, and youth gangs terrorize the people. Free will is the cost that Alex De Large has to pay in a society that is so dominated by violence. Anthony Burgess, in his novel A Clockwork Orange, contends that unless man freely chooses to reject the attraction of violence,

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    Essay Length: 661 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 16, 2009 By: Mike
  • Analysts’ Recommendations: Evidence of a Portuguese Investment Bank

    Analysts’ Recommendations: Evidence of a Portuguese Investment Bank

    1. Introduction There is still a lot of controversy on the forecasting ability of analysts. On one hand, if markets are efficient in its semi-strong (or even strong) form, in the sense of Fama (1970), there would be no ground for the existence of research departments as it would be impossible to implement a profitable strategy on the basis of the publicly available information. Yet, some authors claim that evidence of analysts’ forecasting ability in

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    Essay Length: 2,162 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: regina
  • Capital Markets and the Investment Banking Process

    Capital Markets and the Investment Banking Process

    Investment banks provide a wealth of critical services to our economy. One important role of the investment bank is to assist public and private corporations in raising funds in the capital markets. A second service is in providing strategic advisory services for mergers, acquisitions and other types of financial transactions. They also act as intermediaries in trading for clients. Investment banks differ from commercial banks, which take deposits and make commercial and retail loans. The

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    Essay Length: 1,056 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: Mike
  • Investment Banking

    Investment Banking

    Kris Howard Investment Banking The intensely competitive, action-oriented, profit-hungry world of investment banking can seem like a bigger-than-life place where deals are done and fortunes are made. Investment bank includes but is not limited to bringing an established company to the market, by that I mean taking company with the capabilities but not capital of expanding, and raising money through other investors or the stock market (IPO) for a commission, I chose this field because

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    Essay Length: 990 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Jessica
  • The Role of Investment Banking in the Us Financial System

    The Role of Investment Banking in the Us Financial System

    Introduction to Investment Banks The roots of investment banks are varied. Some are bankers or merchants who started guaranteeing other merchants’ bills, others are outgrown brokerages, but most are products of the Glass-Steagall Act. Originally, the term “investment bank” comes from the United States of America, while some other variations include ‘merchant bank’ in the United Kingdom and ‘securities house’ in Japan. With the globalization of US investment banking, the term has become a generic

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    Essay Length: 2,922 Words / 12 Pages
    Submitted: April 17, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Investment Banking

    Investment Banking

    Features of Interest Rate Futures Standardized Interest Rate Futures contract shall have the following features: The contract shall be on 10-year notional coupon bearing Government of India security. The notional coupon shall be 7% per annum with semi-annual compounding. The contract shall be settled by physical delivery of deliverable grade securities using the electronic book entry system of the existing Depositories, namely, National Securities Depositories Ltd. and Central Depository Services (India) Ltd. and Public Debt

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    Essay Length: 300 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: May 20, 2010 By: sheman
  • Investment Banking

    Investment Banking

    The investment banking industry in the United States is comprised of fewer than 2,000 companies, with combined annual revenue of about $110 billion. Some major companies include Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, Bank of America, and Bear Stearns. Investment banking is a heavily concentrated industry, with the largest fifty firms holding ninety percent of the market. Demand is driven by economic activity that results in company mergers, acquisitions, or public financing. The profitability of

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    Essay Length: 999 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: June 12, 2010 By: Janna
  • Invest

    Invest

    Introduction Management control is to ensure that the organization achieves its objectives. Once the objectives have been agreed, action plans should be drawn up so that the progress can be directed towards the ends specified in the objectives. Such objectives are used to make comparison with alternatives in decision making & are also the critical elements in evaluating the success or failure of the action plans. One of the most widely used management control systems

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    Essay Length: 2,830 Words / 12 Pages
    Submitted: March 11, 2009 By: July
  • Bank Accounting Information System and Electronic Banking

    Bank Accounting Information System and Electronic Banking

    Introduction Information technology has had as much impact on our society as the industrial revolution. In the information age, companies are finding that success or failure is increasingly dependent on their management and use of information. Therefore, companies need a good information system that enabled an efficient and effective use of information to give them more competitive advantage (Moscove, Simkin, & Bagranoff, 1999). An information system is a set of interrelated subsystems that work together

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    Essay Length: 4,453 Words / 18 Pages
    Submitted: March 11, 2009 By: July
  • The American Banking System 1800-1810

    The American Banking System 1800-1810

    The American Banking System 1800-1810 INTRODUCTION Looking back to the outset of the 19th century, it is impossible to say that any real banking system had really been developed in the US. This is to say that, though there were roughly 120 private commercial banks that had been chartered by new state governments, the so-called system was scarcely organized. It was ad hoc in nature and directly linked to the merchant banking practices of the

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    Essay Length: 3,710 Words / 15 Pages
    Submitted: March 11, 2009 By: July
  • Jackson and the Bank Battle

    Jackson and the Bank Battle

    The war on the Second Bank of the United States can be described as one of the most controversial aspects of President Andrew Jackson's two terms in the office. President Jackson used his presidency to destroy the Second Bank of the United States and many government powers and institutions were affected by the methods and principles he acted upon. The idea for a Bank of the United States or a National Bank was conceived by

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    Essay Length: 2,085 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: April 13, 2009 By: Janna
  • Investment Bencharming for Bernard Lester

    Investment Bencharming for Bernard Lester

    Running head: INVESTMENT BENCHARMING FOR BERNARD LESTER Team Delta Learning Team Week 2 Assignment Scott Myers Sharon Stewart Von Nelson Larry Stafford Lara Edna MBA 540 University of Phoenix Professor Brady 01 April, 2008 Table of Contents Introduction Page 3 Internal and External Growth Strategies Page 3 Working Capital Management Strategies Page 5 Challenges of Cross-border Growth Strategies Page 6 Organizational Performance using Financial Statement and Ratio Analysis Page 7 Portfolio Management in Allocation of

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    Essay Length: 6,505 Words / 27 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Monika
  • Honest Money - Biblical Principles of Money and Banking

    Honest Money - Biblical Principles of Money and Banking

    Honest Money Biblical Principles of Money and Banking By Dr. Gary North Honest Money by Dr. Gary North is about where money originated from, the value of money, and the uses of it. It was written so we may have a better understanding of the value and purposes of money. Daniel Defoe wrote a novel about a man whose ship sank, and who ended up on a deserted island for twenty-eight years. Economists use

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    Essay Length: 986 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Jon
  • Foreign Direct Investment in India

    Foreign Direct Investment in India

    Contents Page thsis is shit Executive summary………………………..page 2 Introduction………………………………..page 2 Literary Review……………………………page 3 Country Overview…………………………page 4 Policy Framework…………………………page 5 Economic Determinants…………………...page 11 Trade Facilitation………………………….page 14 Conclusion…………………………………page 18 References………………………………….page 19 Executive Summary This report reviews the literature of the determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) in India. Government legislation in India is then reviewed in order evaluate the barriers to entry which exist for Foreign investors, and the regulations in place that are in of control

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    Essay Length: 1,493 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Yan
  • Bank Accounts, Joint or Separate?

    Bank Accounts, Joint or Separate?

    Introduction The topic I chose to discuss is if couples have separate bank accounts and if they have arrived at this solution after trying to use a single account or if this was their first attempt at martial checking. I chose this topic because I always had the notion that a married couple should have a joint bank account, meaning that their finances just like them were intertwined and inseparable. After I was married to

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    Essay Length: 2,056 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Jon
  • Problem Solution: Usa World Bank

    Problem Solution: Usa World Bank

    Running head: PROBLEM SOLUTION: USA WORLD BANK Problem Solution: USA World Bank University of Phoenix MBA 510 – Managerial Decision Making Problem Solution: USA World Bank For USA World Bank, a major player in the banking industry, future profitability hinges on fulfilling the needs of an industry, which for years has struggled to survive because of the increase competition. In an effort to revitalize the company, USA World Bank’s Board of Directors decided the company

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    Essay Length: 4,009 Words / 17 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Monika
  • Investment Alternative Benchmarking for Bernard Lester

    Investment Alternative Benchmarking for Bernard Lester

    Gap Analysis: Global Communications Denise Durant MBA 500 University of Phoenix Professor Karen Klamm October 7, 2006 Gap Analysis: Global Communications Introduction With the rapid technological advances in the telecommunications industry that demands globalization to increase market share, decrease labor costs while simultaneously boosting the employee morale is undergoing significant changes. The determining factor is the rate of the economic growth necessary to improve revenue profits for stockholders. The move from a domestic telecommunications company

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    Essay Length: 1,652 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: David
  • The World Bank on Sustainable Development

    The World Bank on Sustainable Development

    MacDonald 1 As a core fundamental and central organization, it is essential to recognize the World Bank’s unwavering commitment and contribution to international environmental and developmental programs. As the top funding agency to international organizations, NGO’s, independent countries, and other societal groups the World Bank plays a marquee role in international funding in an increasingly industrializing world and changing market economy. It might be presumptuous to label the World Bank as an elitist organization

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    Essay Length: 1,578 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Max
  • People’s Bank

    People’s Bank

    Peoples Bank Marketing Management Concepts Peoples Bank People’s Bank when first opened in 1842 was opened as a general savings bank that targeted the blue-collar worker of the U.S. wishing to save their money in a reliable banking institution. Since that time it has grown into a multi-service financial institution with assets of around $ 12 billion. Currently People’s Bank offer diversified services such as mortgage loans, credit cards, brokerage and investment services as

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    Essay Length: 698 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Top
  • Gold - the Standard and the Investment

    Gold - the Standard and the Investment

    Introduction Gold has served as medium of exchange and a store of value since the days of the pharaohs, dating back nearly 5000 years. Gold coins were used by the Greeks and the Romans; this tradition passed on to the mercantile era into the nineteenth century where the great increase in trade led to a need for a formalized system of settling international trade balances. Thus, the “Gold Standard” was born. Since the end of

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    Essay Length: 449 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Bred
  • Good Corporate Governance-Its Importance for Banks and Challenges

    Good Corporate Governance-Its Importance for Banks and Challenges

    Definition Corporate governance is the set of processes, customs, policies, laws and institutions affecting the way in which a corporation is directed, administered or controlled. Corporate governance also includes the relationships among the many players involved (the stakeholders) and the goals for which the corporation is governed. The principal players are the shareholders, management and the board of directors. Other stakeholders include employees, suppliers, customers, banks and other lenders, regulators, the environment and the community

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    Essay Length: 4,809 Words / 20 Pages
    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Janna
  • Bank of England

    Bank of England

    The Bank of England Governor Mervyn King warned that he does not expect the turmoil in financial markets to ease until banks reveal the full extent of their sub-prime losses. Speaking as he gave evidence in front of the Treasury Select Committee for a second time on the Northern Rock fiasco, Mr King said that financial markets would have to have a degree of patience until banks revealed the full extent of their losses related

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    Essay Length: 469 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Jon
  • Indian Banking Industry

    Indian Banking Industry

    T he banking industry in any economy provides its financial backbone. This places it on a completely different platform from any other industry, including regulated utilities. While its criticality for the economy is undisputed, it is this criticality that also makes it vulnerable to failure. This is the reason the banking industry is regulated, albeit in different degrees, in every economy. A fair amount of research, both international and Indian, has gone into determining the

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    Essay Length: 319 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Steve
  • Germany - to Invest or Not to Invest

    Germany - to Invest or Not to Invest

    Germany- To Invest or Not to Invest? Executive Summary Authorization and Objective Authorized for completion on XXX by Professor XXX, this study was completed to identify the potential risks and potential benefits of pursuing a financial endeavor in Germany. Method of Data Collection To find both secondary and primary information, the Internet was used as the prime source of data collection. The details about Germany were found on several websites and written about in

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    Essay Length: 3,251 Words / 14 Pages
    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Stenly

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