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5 unusual facts about investment banking


Investment banking

The International Council of Securities Associations (ICSA) is a global group of trade associations.

A number of former Goldman-Sachs top executives, such as Henry Paulson and Ed Liddy were in high-level positions in government and oversaw the controversial taxpayer-funded bank bailout.

Documents under seal in a decade-long lawsuit concerning eToys.com's IPO but obtained by New York Times Wall Street Business columnist Joe Nocera alleged that IPOs managed by Goldman Sachs and other investment bankers involved asking for kickbacks from their institutional clients who made large profits flipping IPOs which Goldman had intentionally undervalued.

Urgent care

The majority of urgent care centers are owned by physicians or physician groups, however, more corporations and investment banks are acquiring urgent care centers and creating regional and national brands in the industry.

Walter M. Jeffords, Sr.

(August 8, 1883 - September 28, 1960) was a successful Investment banker and owner/breeder of Thoroughbred racehorses who, in partnership with his wife's uncle, Samuel Riddle, purchased and operated Faraway Farm near Lexington Kentucky where they stood Man o' War.


Barclays Investment Bank

Barclays Investment Bank (trading as Barclays, formerly Barclays Capital) is the investment banking division of the British multinational Barclays bank headquartered in London.

Frederik Paul Roever

After working as an investment banker in London for over 6 years, he started his entrepreneurial career as the CFO and founder of Rocket Internet’s Munich Office.

Garanti Bank

Garanti provides services in all business lines including payment systems, retail, commercial, corporate, SME, private and investment banking.

Gulf Finance House

Gulf Finance House is an Islamic investment bank with headquarters in Bahrain Financial Harbour, Bahrain.

Larry Rafferty

Larry C. Rafferty (born in Brooklyn, New York) is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Rafferty Capital Markets, LLC, an investment banking and brokerage services firm headquartered in Garden City, New York.

S. R. Hiremath

Later, he worked as an Investment Banker in various public and private corporations in the US including in Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago as a Manager until 1980s when he decided to relocate to India to pursue the cause of Environment, Natural Resources and Sustainable Development.


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Al Baraka Banking Group

The company is listed on the Bahrain Stock Exchange and NASDAQ Dubai, the group offers retail, corporate and investment banking and treasury services strictly in accordance with the principles of the Shari'a in 12 countries.

Antonio Buehler

After graduating from Stanford in 2006, Buehler took a position with Houlihan Lokey as an Investment Banking Associate in New York City.

BARCAP

Barclays Capital (BarCap), the former name of the investment banking division of Barclays.

Calyon Building

It is named for the Calyon Corporation which resulted from the merger of Crédit Agricole Indosuez and the corporate and investment banking division of the Crédit Lyonnais corporation as a result of the takeover of the latest by Crédit Agricole S.A. in 2002.

Christy Ren

She graduated in 2005 and previously worked in investment banking with HSBC.

Chuck Carney

After leaving Illinois, Carney served as end coach at Northwestern, Wisconsin, and Harvard before entering the investment banking business as a New York Stock Exchange representative for the firm of Dominick and Dominick.

Cogent

Cogent Partners, an investment banking firm focused on private equity secondary advisory transactions

Daniel Scotto

Mr. Scotto also has extensive investment banking project experience – having served as the Senior Regulator/Company negotiator when the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) acquired Long Island Lighting Company (LILCO).

Desmond Koh

He started his foray in banking in investment banking London in 1996 and is currently a director at Credit Suisse Private Bank.

Here Media

He practiced law for several years and subsequently was a partner with Lincoln Property Company, a large real estate development company, and a senior managing director with Bear Stearns, a major investment banking firm.

James B. Lockhart III

He has served as Senior Vice President, Finance, at National Reinsurance(1996) which was acquired by General Reinsurance; Managing Director in Smith Barney's Investment Banking Group for financial institutions and Co-Head of its Private Equity Group (1993–1995); Vice President and Treasurer of Alexander & Alexander(1981–1989); and Assistant Treasurer of Gulf Oil in Europe and the U.S. (1974–1981).

Laurence Tosi

Before joining Blackstone, Mr. Tosi held a number of senior positions at Merrill Lynch & Co. including chief operating officer of Merrill's trading and investment banking division.

Nina Godiwalla

USA Today chose Suits as a top pick, and FORTUNE Magazine called it a "must read." The New York Times described her internationally acclaimed book as The Devil Wears Prada of investment banking.

Robert S. Pirie

He later practiced in New York City and then served in turn as Co-Chairman and CEO of Rothschild, North America, Senior Managing Director of Bear Stearns & Co., and Vice-Chairman of Investment Banking at SG Cowen Securities Corporation.

Ron Wooten

Prior to joining Quintiles, Wooten worked for nine years with First Union Securities Corporation (now Wachovia Securities, Inc.) in Charlotte, North Carolina, most recently as a Managing Director of Investment Banking.

Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center

The first private sector lease was signed with investment banking firm Quarterdeck Investment Partners, Inc. The building hosts conferences, trade shows, cultural events, and outdoor concerts.

Sandler O'Neill and Partners

Among them were Herman S. Sandler, Chris Quackenbush, who started the firm’s investment banking practice and Welles Crowther, an equities trader, who saved at least 12 people.

SFCO

Sucsy, Fischer & Company (SFCo), a Chicago area-based independent investment banking firm.

Sidney Hertzberg

After ending his basketball career at the age of 28, Hertzberg went on to become a managing director of Bear Stearns, an investment banking and brokerage firm.

Stefan Siegel

Followed by a modelling career (he appeared in campaigns and catwalk shows for Prada, Gucci, BMW, K-Swiss and Calvin Klein), Stefan started working for companies such as Ernst & Young and Sal. Oppenheim in Switzerland, and the Merrill Lynch M&A Investment Banking group in London specialising on the Consumer & Retail sector.

The Terror Live

One day during his morning show, Yoon receives a peculiar phone call threatening to blow up the Mapo Bridge, a major bridge that crosses the Han River and connects Mapo District and Yeouido, Seoul's main business and investment banking district; it is also just outside Yoon's studio building.

Vista Equity Partners

Prior to founding Vista Equity, Smith was the co-head of the enterprise systems and storage sector for Goldman Sachs' investment banking division.

William B. Blount

He was a partner with a large regional investment banking firm in Montgomery for six years before co-creating and co-owning the firm Blount Parrish & Co. in 1985.