0 a bank that helps companies sell and buy shares, or helps them buy other companies or merge (= join together) with each other
1 a bank that helps companies and organizations to buy and sell shares, bonds, etc. and helps companies to buy or merge (= join) with other companies:
The successful bid was led by an investment bank.
The telecoms analyst at the investment bank estimated that the business was worth around €1bn..
an American/British/Japanese investment bank
a Wall Street/City investment bank
In the same vein, what we can do is also force our own investment bank to take action with regard to tax havens.
There are no plans for a state investment bank.
Secondly, if an investment bank is set up it will operate on commercial lines.
We should set up a national investment bank and use some of the pension and insurance funds to back it.
We can argue at some other time whether that should involve an investment bank.
Let us suppose that the corporate finance department of an integrated investment bank receives unpublished and price sensitive information about a takeover bid.
The national investment bank would make sure that there was long-term investment at suitable rates of interest.
If he had, he might have saved himself the embarrassment that his proposal for a national investment bank has caused him.
