Wednesday, August 12, 2009

•An investment bank is a financial institution that raises capital, trades in securities and manages corporate mergers and acquisitions. ...

•A financial institution that acts as a middleman (underwriter) between the corporation issuing stocks and bonds, and the public.

•Investment banks provide a range of financial and investment related services, advising clients on security issues, acquisitions and disposals of ...

•Also known as underwriters, investment banks serve as middlemen between corporations issuing new securities and the buying public. ...

•Financial intermediaries who perform a variety of services, including aiding in the sale of securities, facilitating mergers and other corporate reorganizations, acting as brokers to both individual and institutional clients, and trading for their own accounts. Underwriters.

•American equivalent of a merchant bank. Issues and underwrites shares, buys and sells shares and bonds and other financial instruments.

•A firm that serves as an intermediary between issuers of securities and the public, which purchases the securities. For example, investment banks often represent private companies that issue publicly traded stock.

•a firm that helps businesses (a) raise funds (financial capital) by issuing new stock (an IPO) or private fundraising, (b) with mergers and ...

•A financial firm that underwrites, or arranges the sale, of stock and bonds for companies. Investment banks also implement a variety of corporate restructuring activities such as mergers and acquisitions. ...

•An individual or institution that acts as an underwriter or agent for corporations and municipalities issuing securities. Most also maintain broker/dealer operations, maintain markets for previously issued securities and offer advisory services to investors. ...

•A bank that specializes in issuing, managing, underwriting, trading and distributing new securities.

•A lending institution that is both a direct lender as well as an intermediary. This type of institution has the ability to directly fund or to re-trade/syndicate transactions. This capability allows for the maximum amount of funding options when structuring a deal.

World Bank

•International Bank for Reconstruction and Development: a United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member ...

•The World Bank Group (WBG) is a family of five international organizations makes leveraged loans, generally to poor countries. ...

•The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides financial and technical assistance to developing countries for development ...

•A group of five financial organizations whose purpose is economic development and the elimination of poverty

•The World Bank is an American-based organization with 184 member countries. “The World Bank is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world“ [4]. ...

•International institution set up to promote general economic development in the world's poorer nations.

•( in World Bank: Origins ) Founded in 1944 at the UN Monetary and Financial Conference (commonly known as the Bretton Woods Conference), which was convened to establish a new, post-World War II international economic system, the World Bank officially began operations in June 1946. ...

•Part of a group of financial institutions, the World Bank focuses on the reduction of global poverty and seeks to achieve this through the provision of low- or no-interest loans and grants to countries with little or no access to international credit markets. ...

•The World Bank is one of the institutions established at a meeting in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, towards the end of World War II. ...

•Through loans and "structural adjustment" policies - often to unelected governments - this institution has helped keep most nations of the global south in poverty. ...

•Constituted in 1945 as part of the Bretton Woods agreements, the World Bank is committed to financing international economic development and to eliminating poverty. The United States holds 16.4% of the total votes, Japan 7.9%, Germany 4.5%, and the United Kingdom and France each 4.3%. ...

•IBRD or Int’l Bank for Reconstruction & Development, a UN agency. Funded by “developed” (rich) nations taxpayers, it provides loans & ...

•An agency of the United Nations that offers loans to countries to promote trade and economic development.

Sunday, August 09, 2009

Commercial Bank

•a financial institution that accepts demand deposits and makes loans and provides other services for the public

•A commercial bank is a type of financial intermediary and a type of bank. Commercial banking is also known as business banking. It is a bank that provides checking accounts, savings accounts, and money market accounts and that accepts time deposits. ...

•Bank that offers a broad range of deposit accounts, including checking, savings and time deposits and extends loans to individuals and businesses. ...

•An institution whose primary function is to make loans to businesses.

•Banks whose main business activity is taking deposits and making loans for commercial or consumer purposes. ...

•A financial institution authorized to provide a variety of financial services, including consumer and business loans (generally short-term with full recourse to the Borrower). Commercial banks may be members of the Federal Reserve System.

•An institution that accepts and manages deposits from households, firms and governments and uses a portion of those deposits to earn interest by making loans and holding securities.

•A commercial organisation that provides a variety of banking services such as loans and savings schemes

•A private bank as opposed to a central or government bank.

•State or nationally chartered lending institution owned by stockholders offering services such as demand deposits and short-term business loans.

•These are non-governmental financial institutions and are also called full-service banks because of the wide range of services they provide. Commercial banks also sell and redeem US savings bonds.

•Bank which accepts deposits from the public and lends money to businesses and consumers. Their business lending is usually for working capital ...

•A full-service institution that offers customers deposit, payment and credit services, in addition to other financial services.

•A bank, whether or not a member of the Federal Reserve System, which has access to the Federal Reserve Communications System (FRCS) or Fedwire. ...

•A financial institution chartered by a state or the federal government to receive, lend, and safeguard money and other items of value.

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