“Vodafone Idea merger” and “Walmart’s acquisition of Flipkart” both showed up in Indian business headlines within a few years of each other, both involving enormous sums of money, both covered with roughly the same tone of breathless significance. One of those words was chosen carefully. The other one, in a…
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Startups, entrepreneurship, expansion and financial forces shaping decisions that turn ideas into companies
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How investment banks make money
Every headline about a ₹10,000 crore merger or a blockbuster IPO mentions the deal size in bold, and almost never mentions what the bank advising on it actually earned. That number exists, it’s often substantial, and understanding how it’s calculated tells you a great deal about how investment banking actually…
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What does an Investment Banker do ?
Every placement season, a handful of students at India’s top campuses disappear into a world everyone talks about and almost nobody outside it can actually describe. The package gets discussed in detail. The actual job almost never does. 13 MIN READ THE LEDGER — BOARDROOM WRITTEN FOR: THE CAMPUS PLACEMENT…
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The difference between investment banking and commercial banking
Your salary account, your father’s fixed deposit, and the ₹20,000 crore IPO in the news last week were all handled by institutions called “banks.” Almost nothing else about them is the same. 13 MIN READ THE LEDGER — BOARDROOM WRITTEN FOR: THE SAVINGS ACCOUNT HOLDER → THE M&A ANALYST Say…