Capital Markets Group

Capital Markets Groups are the casino inside of an investment bank. They are charged with metering, managing, and running the day-to-day transactions that happen among buyers and sellers of securities, usually all over the world, and soon Mars.

What do they do specifically? They sniff. They play golf with institutional investor clients. They often ask, "So, buddy, how you feelin' about the markets these days? How you feelin' about your million shares of MSFT or AMZN? What would make you dump 'em?"

The Capital Markets people then report back their G2 to their traders, who take copious notes so that, if it turns out one day that a massive holder of AMZN has their trigger hit and they begin selling, that trader probably shorts the stock. Why? Because they know that whatever price AMZN is trading at today, for the next two weeks, as the big institution is selling, that stock will have more supply and demand in the market.

Capital markets groups people do a lot of sleuthing and pre-marketing for things like mergers, acquisitions, IPOs, and other securities offerings. They advise on the size and timing of deals, and who is hot to trot and who is...not.