Investment banking, namely, assisting clients in analyzing, structuring, negotiating and effecting transactions in the fields of foreign exchange, fixed income, bond issues, company and business liquidity and risk management, metals markets, money markets, OTC and exchange-traded derivatives, private placements of equities and securities and repo-based finance; corporate finance services, namely, consultation in the field of asset sales; financial advising and consulting in the field of mergers, acquisitions, disposals, privatization and restructuring of companies and businesses; equity capital investment; distributing and trading national and global equities and equity derivatives; asset and mortgage-backed securitization, debt restructuring, export credit financing services; financing services, namely, asset-backed finance, leverage finance, project finance, public sector finance, syndicated loans and tax-based and off-balance sheet finance; financial asset management, management of equities, cash and real estate; raising equity capital, structuring and providing equity for management buy-outs for others; research and advice services in relation to the above services