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Financial Services Industry
Also Known As Finance Industry
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The financial services industry provides economic services tied to finance, delivered through institutions such as commercial banks, investment banks and asset managers, and encompasses a broad range of activities including financial management, consumer finance, accountancy and investment management. The sector also produces financial products such as insurance, credit cards, mortgage loans and pension funds.
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Accountancy is named among the industry's own core components (alongside investment banking, investment management and personal asset management), so the discipline that produces financial statements and audits sits inside the sector it makes possible.
Financial services are, by the industry's own definition, economic services tied to finance and delivered by financial institutions; finance practice is the discipline the whole industry is organized around.
Insurance is described as a major part of the financial services industry.
Companies In Industry
Investment banking and financial services.
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1. Wikipedia, Financial Services
WikipediaLead sectionQuote, Lead section
Economic services tied to finance provided by financial institutions.
1. Wikipedia, Financial Services
WikipediaAssociated With: Accounting, lead section, accountancy componentQuote, Associated With: Accounting, lead section, accountancy component
Financial services include accountancy, investment banking, investment management, and personal asset management
1. Wikipedia, Financial Services
WikipediaAssociated With: Finance, lead section, opening definitionQuote, Associated With: Finance, lead section, opening definition
Financial services are economic services tied to finance provided by financial institutions.
Wikipedia, Insurance
WikipediaAssociated With: Insurance Industry, Financial intermediary sectionQuote, Associated With: Insurance Industry, Financial intermediary section
Insurance as a financial intermediary is a commercial enterprise and a major part of the financial services industry.
Wikipedia, Bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers
WikipediaAssociated With: Bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, Lead sectionView the Source Wikipedia, Lehman Brothers
WikipediaCompanies In Industry: Lehman Brothers, Lead sectionQuote, Companies In Industry: Lehman Brothers, Lead section
It did business in investment banking, equity, fixed-income and derivatives sales and trading (especially U.S. Treasury securities), research, investment management, private equity, and private banking.
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