What is Investment Banking?
As an investment banker, you are a middleman in the world of finance for many financial operations. Investment Banking, at its core, can be broken up into three main things: the sale of securities, IPOs, and M&A. 1. Securities (Equity (Stocks), Debt (Bonds), Hybrid (Preferred Shares)) are sold to investors looking for a return on their money; that money is used to fund the ideas of various clients in need of money. 2. Investment bankers aid clientele through the process of IPOs (Initial Public Offerings), where private companies become public companies and initiate shares that are put on the stock market and are bought and sold by investors like me and you. 3. Investment bankers help clients with M&A (Mergers & Acquisitions) a process in which companies buy and sell (merge/acquire) parts of other companies or other companies as a whole.
Our Story
Ayaan and Colin were let down when looking to join a finance club on their school's listing page as most were either inactive or didn't really teach finance. With this in mind, Ayaan and Colin decided that they would start one of their own, and they would base it on one of the most pivotal industries within finance, investment banking. After creating their own Investment Banking club, they realized that it would be beneficial for schools across the nation to have such a club, diving into investment banking and taking a look at finance as a whole. So the IBC Project was created, allowing there to be a way to easily share club resources with other finance enthusiasts to start an Investment Banking club of their own at their school.