Corporate Finance
A Reuters guide to Corporate Finance
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Corporate financiers in investment banks advise clients on finance issues and help them negotiate and execute financial transactions. Their clients include government bodies, institutions, publicly quoted corporations and private companies.
Corporate finance professionals typically provide advice on how to raise capital through equity or debt instruments, on mergers and acquisitions, capital structuring and the privatisation of publicly owned assets. In addition, corporate finance professionals give guidance on the market environment and the timing of finance deals to ensure their clients' transactions can be executed successfully.
Corporate finance professionals need access to a wide range of information and analytic tools to draw up finance strategies and evaluate likely outcomes. They require news and real-time data to keep abreast of significant developments in the marketplace. They also need in-depth information and research tools to analyse companies, industries and financial markets.
Because business has become increasingly international, corporate finance professionals look for services that offer high-quality global content. In particular, corporate finance professionals want access to fundamental data on companies around the world, company ownership details, research reports and corporate business intelligence. They also require information on corporate transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and the issuance of securities.
Corporate finance professionals need to spend time building close client relationships and on identifying and developing new business opportunities. As a result, corporate finance professionals want products that help streamline their work processes. In addition to quick access to information, they look for the ability to combine public and proprietary content and feed data into their financial models.
Reuters offers a series of products that address the requirements of corporate finance professionals. Reuters products range from sophisticated international, cross-asset, high-speed, high-performance services that combine news and real-time market data with powerful analysis tools, to browser-based products offering smaller sets of information tailored to specific markets or particular business needs. These include products that give corporate finance professionals access to research, estimates, company fundamentals and ownership information. They also enable corporate finance professionals to integrate data and other content into their own models and documents.
Reuters and Dow Jones, through a joint venture, offer an internet-delivered service which helps corporate finance professionals conduct research by providing multi-lingual news and business information from nearly 9,000 sources.
