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(A) write an introduction to corporate and merchant/ investment banking products and services (two paragraphs)
(B) outline, explain and discuss these products and services.
(D) explain the advantages and disadvantages of the products to the clients.
A. Corporate and merchant as well as investment banking product and services are different from commercial banking services.
Merchant bank is a bank that will that undertake International finance and underwriting of securities.they will be providing financial advisory services to business and brokerage services to businesses.
Investment bank will be those banking companies which are acting as intermediaries between the client and the investment public by helping them through raising funds.
B.these investment bank and merchant bank will be offering a variety of services like brokerage services and intermediary services of management of various kinds of initial public offer and they will be treating themselves like underwriters and they will also be helping these companies in mergers and acquisitions and they will be trying to provide assistance regarding issue management.
these investment banks will be helping the business in buying and selling of securities and they will be offering the advisory securities in relation of selling and buying of these securities so they will be providing a whole lot of assistance regarding issues of capital market.
C.advantages related to these products to the clients are that these products are modern and sophisticated products and these products will be relating to needs of the various companies and customers and they are helpful in providing quality services at a lower cost
Disadvantage related to these services are that investment bank are not providing adequate valuations related to mergers and acquisitions and they will be also making the company issue their shares at lower prices than the intrinsic value which will be the underwriting of initial public offer.