To solidify their position as trusted advisers, investment bankers need to offer advice and insight that their clients can’t get elsewhere. To do this, bankers must have a constant flow of information on events, companies and people.
Dow Jones Investment Banker offers the deep intelligence edge that every banker needs to provide advice, generate ideas and connect to clients. The best of Dow Jones—business news, opinion, research, data visualization, executive connections—is delivered in a suite of customizable components designed for smooth integration into the proprietary portals and applications essential to bankers and analysts. With Dow Jones, bankers will:
- New! Support each step of the deal process with Dow Jones Investment Banker and FactSet. Click here to learn more.
- Develop unique deal ideas with the exclusive, insider’s viewpoint of a trusted, expert editorial team covering companies, sectors and decision-makers worldwide
- Uncover opportunities and trends faster with advanced technologies that find and extract significant events and relationships from a deep collection of the world’s leading business sources
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Open the door to decision-makers with unparalleled executive data and connection technology
- Make connections and pitch deals quickly by utilizing configurable technologies that seamlessly link proprietary and third-party sources and data together in the applications and systems bankers rely on
Develop Better Deals with Trusted Industry Expertise
To meet the information demands of skilled, specialized bankers, Dow Jones has added some-thing extra: a dedicated team of columnists and writers with extensive experience as investment bankers, fund managers and industry consultants. Their mission is to deliver sharp-edged opinion and analysis for the distinctive perspective of investment bankers.
The team handpicks coverage from more than 2,000 journalists across Dow Jones sources—Newswires, The Wall Street Journal, Factiva, and newsletters covering bankruptcy news, private equity and VC news—to provide all news and analysis affecting bankers and clients.
- In-depth sector commentary and analysis, plus selections from leading industry publications
- Timely coverage of the topics critical to bankers: VC and PE financing, IPOs, capital raising, M&A, regulatory changes and accounting standards
- Comprehensive real-time reporting on all asset classes, world events, corporate leaders and public and private companies in developed and emerging markets
This rich, deep pool of business intelligence is organized around the 13 Top Industries of most interest to investment bankers, offering top sector news and commentary around the clock. To keep bankers on top of what’s going on around the world, Dow Jones editors select the most important news and events for five Regional Views.
The news, opinion and analysis in Dow Jones Investment Banker can all be built into proprietary client portals and applications, surfacing headlines, opinion and video where it's critical to a team—or an individual banker.
- Monitor sectors, clients and competitors with editor-selected Top News headlines
- Generate unique ideas with Opinion & Analysis
- Video of deal makers, columnists in 60-Second Video
- Insight is delivered in new, innovative formats: streaming news, video, spreadsheets, PowerPoint
By combining the world's best business content with sophisticated technologies for content aggregation, metadata extraction and text-mining, this solution is unique in its ability to help bankers interpret events, perform deal diligence and offer strategic advice to clients.
- Dow Jones Factiva's 28,000 sources: newspapers, industry publications, 12,000 Web sites and 4,000 blogs
- Flag key events, companies and executives with Alerts
- Quickly find what matters to clients and deals in Search
Discover Meaning—and Deals—with Data Visualization
Bankers contend with a daily deluge of information, so Dow Jones Investment Banker uses advanced data visualization to illuminate hidden trends, unexpected patterns and off-the-radar issues. When integrated into workflow, these graphics help bankers and researchers quickly identify what’s significant for clients and targets.
- Watch deal activity heat up with News Radar
- Pull up Most Mentioned to monitor buzz on industries, companies and executives
Pinpoint Executives & Connect to Decision-Makers
Dow Jones Investment Banker includes a global database—18 million public and private corporate snapshots and 36 million executive profiles—backed with connection technology that can plot the pathway from inside the bank to the right decision-makers.
All relevant Dow Jones information and technology is available via a spectrum of flexible, easy-to-install integration options to meet all workflow requirements.
- Go Mobile with access to all Dow Jones Investment Banker content in an interface designed for bankers
- Simple API, widgets and developers’ integration gallery
- Pre-configured scenarios with Strategic Partners
- Rich symbology and taxonomy is available to map key Dow Jones topics to internal content and data
- New! Support each step of the deal process with Dow Jones Investment Banker and FactSet. Click here to learn more.
Leverage Dow Jones Integration Expertise
Dow Jones Client Solutions is available for basic integration support, and the group’s extensive experience can also be leveraged for custom engagements, delivering the information tools and seamless workflow integration that reduce time to deployment and improve ROI for Dow Jones Investment Banker.
Recognized by Peers in SIIA CODiE Awards
Dow Jones Investment Banker was named Best Online Professional Financial Information Service by industry leaders in the Software and Information Industry Association’s 2010 CODiE Awards.
Integrated into critical points of workflow, Dow Jones Investment Banker will cement the role of the banker as a trusted advisor by speeding information-gathering and the generation of original transaction ideas, while enhancing strategic advice delivered to clients.
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