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Above: Figure 1: Your friend who recently scored a full-time offer is buying the next round at the Union What are Investment banks and why should you care? Investment banks are financial institutions that provide two main services; brokerage and corporate advisory. Corporate advisory There are three main services
If you’ve flicked past all of the puzzles and literally every other section to get to Investments, well then I know you’re probably a banker w*****. All jokes asides, if any of you have read more than 3 articles on FT or spoke to a Business School student
Cryptocurrencies are digital assets which are intended to be used as a medium of exchange. Traditionally, the supply currency can be controlled by a central bank or the government, however this is not the case with cryptocurrencies. Within this system, the safety solely lies in the hands of parties called
The Foreign Exchange market (Forex or FX) is an over-the-counter market in currency-pairs which is the largest and most liquid market in the world. An average of $5.1 trillion is traded every day, compared to $84 billion traded daily in equities’ markets. Like how you might
Above: Figure 1: The increasing demand for pork belly has led to large gyrations in prices Pork bellies – yes, the pork that comes from the belly of a pig, was an iconic commodity for the futures market’s representation in pop-culture. While it might be surprising that the financial
Raising capital is essential to the long-term health of every company and organisation. Fresh capital is required for hiring more personnel, investing in new technologies, and expanding operations, among other purposes. Equity constitutes one way of raising the sum of money necessary. In general, equity is the measure of
To many of us, a market is where we visit to purchase groceries. However, in the financial application, a financial market is where a transfer of capital from the people who supply it, to the people who demand it takes place. Financial markets play 3 important roles. Firstly, they play
At the beginning of last year MiFID II was introduced to make the financial industry more transparent. One key aspect of this is the move from bundled to unbundled products brokerage firms provide. Previously, a fund manager buying a security through a broker would pay a hefty commission. This would
In an economically uncertain environment subject to policy-driven volatility, the underperformers would be high beta stocks such as the technology sector. The friction and tension surrounding the US-China trade war uncertainty has dampened the forecasted earnings of technology companies such as Apple who recently revised their first quarter
Investors are typically faced with the question of how much a stock (equity) is worth. To answer this question, there are two ways to value equities. The first method involves the use of ratios and comparison with other equities – relative valuation and the second method involves the use of Discounted
The month of April marked a historic moment for the financial markets. The Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco) had its debut international bond issuance. A titan in the world of oil and gas, whose pulse is closely monitored by financial markets as a proxy to the health of one
The ride haling app has lowered its expectations from a rumoured IPO valuation of around $100 billion to between $80-90 billion. This would still be the largest public offering from Silicon Valley since Facebook, with the company pitching an initial price range of $44 to $55, even as many
