What is Investment Banking Operations?
Investment Banking is a special segment of banking operation that helps individuals or organisations raise capital and provide financial consultancy services to the clients. The investment banks act as intermediaries between security issues and investors and help them to new firms to go public. They either buy all the available shares at a price estimated by their experts and resell them to the public or sell shares on behalf of the issuer and take commission on each share.
Investment banking is among the most complex mechanisms in the world. They serve many different purposes and business entities. They provide various types of financial services, such as proprietary, trading or trading securities for their own accounts, mergers and acquisitions advisory which involves helping organisations in M&As, leveraged finance that involves lending money to firms to purchase assets and settle acquisitions, restructuring that involves improving structures of companies to make a business more efficient and help it to make maximum profit and new issues or IPOs where these banks help new firms to go public.
Few lines about BBA Investment Banking Operations
BBA Investment banking operations is a 3-years undergraduate course that is divided into 6-semesters. The course is designed for careers in financial operations, capital market operations, treasury and clearing decisions within an investment bank. The course helps to learn about various product lines and gain a detailed understanding of the trade lifecycle across products and regions.
The course also trains the students on various investment banking techniques and also trains the students to deal with negotiations in large deals and acquisitions.
Eligibility for BBA Investment Banking Operations Course
The students who have completed their PUC or 10+2 with 50% from recognised board are eligible to apply for BBA Investment Banking Operations Course.
Admission Procedure
The students with relevant qualifications can join the BBA Investment Banking Operations course by two modes. The first one is Merit based admission and the second one is direct admission.
Let’s discuss in detail
1. Merit Admission
There are many top educational institutes that conduct entrance exams for the BBA Investment Banking Operations course. This mode is called merit admission mode. The entrance exams are conducted to select the serious and hardworking students from the group of non-serious candidates to the available limited number of seats in the colleges. The qualified students are allotted the merit seats and are given admission, the fees are fairly nominal for merit admissions.