Introduction to Investment Banking

Introduction
Banking constraints
  • Major risks associated with investment banking
  • Regulatory constraints
  • Regulators: Basel committee / Financial authorities / Central banks
  • Equity capital, Tier 1 and Core Tier 1
  • Counterparty risk: Cooke & Basel II
  • Market risk: VaR and Stress Test
  • Operational risk: Basel II
  • Liquidity risk
  • Basel III
Organisation of an investment bank
  • Organisation by business lines of a CIB
  • Overview of the various functions
Role of an investment bank
  • Corporate funding
  • Self-financing
  • Credit
  • Private equity
  • Advisory
  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Equity primary markets: IPOs, issuance of equity linked products, block trade
  • Fixed-income primary markets: monetary and bond markets
  • Financing
  • Securisation
  • Acquisition finance
  • Export finance
  • Project finance
  • Asset finance (real-estate / shipping / aircraft)
  • Commodities finance

  • Acquiring an exhaustive understanding of an investment bank’s economic role and business lines
  • Understanding the objectives and constraints of corporate finance
  • Knowing the impact of regulation on investment banking
  • Understanding the impact of the crisis on credit risk
  • Understand the role of every major player in investment banking
  • Know how and why every team is organised
  • No prior financial or mathematical knowledge required
  • Anybody working within investment banking and willing to understand its global functions
  • People starting to work in support functions such as Back Office, organisation, accounting, IT...
  • Support functions
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