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How an Investment Bank Is Actually Organized

Wall Street Mechanics — The Insider Curriculum • Beginner Investing • 7 min

"Investment bank" gets used loosely to describe a whole institution, but a large investment bank actually houses several genuinely different businesses under one roof, each with distinct functions, incentives, and — importantly — deliberate barriers between some of them. Sales and trading is the division most directly involved in the day-to-day buying and selling of securities, including the market-making function…

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