ANSWERS | GRADED AND THE LATEST SERIES
what is wholesale banking?
Ans: borrowing from and lending to corporate clients or other financial
institutions.
Question: What is investment banking?
Ans: Serve high net worth customers in functions of capital market activities i.e.
bonds and shares, trading and mergers and acquisitions
Question: What are debt capital markets?
Ans: Where capital is raised through the issue of bonds. Investment banks are
involved to plan, manage, and sell the bonds
Question: What are equity capital markets?
Ans: Where funds are raised by undertaking an initial public offerings (IPO),
selling shares to the public for the first time
Question: What are private placements?
Ans: Plan an offering of bonds with institutional investors that has lower
reglulatory requirements
Question: What are mergers and acquisitions?
Ans: where one company looks to purchase another company- an investment
bank offers advise on the process and pricing
,Question: What are chinese walls?
Ans: Barriers to mitigate exchanges of information that could lead to conflict of
interest
Question: What are accepting deposits?
Ans: The banks first core main function. It is how banks source a majority of
their funds
Question: What is granting loans?
Ans: Banks second core main function
Question: What is an overdraft
Ans: A defined credit limit attached to a bank account that can be drawn
against
Question: what is a credit card?
Ans: allows for customers to purchase goods and services now and pay them off
at a later date- generally monthly.
Question: What are bills of exchange and promissory notes?
Ans: Specialised instruments, an unconditional order between parties where the
bank purchases the bill amount and on maturity the borrower pays the full amount.
Question: What is equipment leasing and hire purchase?
, Ans: Forms of borrowing to finance plant, machinery and vehicles
Question: What is trade finance?
Ans: Facilitation of import and export transactions e.g. lending, letters of credit,
insurance
Question: What is a short term loan- (personal loan)
Ans: lending where the principle and repayments are made over a shorter
timeframe i.e. 5 years- generally for cars, holidays,
Question: what is a long term loan?
Ans: Lending where the principle and repayments are made over a longer
timeframe i.e 30 years
Question: What is Electronic funds Transfer?
Ans: Funds transferred electronically between banks
Question: What are negotiable instruments?
Ans: Bank drafts, cheques and letters of credit
Question: What are periodic payments?
Ans: Direct Debit and standing orders, where the bank mades payments on
behalf of the customer
Question: What are periodic collections?