CIBC World Markets CIBC World Markets offers innovative financial services to government, corporate, and institutional clients by helping them raise funding, expand, and invest in major financial centers across North America and around the world. CIBC is a Canada-based wholesale bank featured in a variety of key Canadian rankings: #1 underwriter of Canadian IPOs, #1 overall equity underwriter, #2 underwriter for all debt deals, and many others. Its investment bank services combine industry expertise, in-depth research, and a large selection of products and services, making it a top choice for goal-oriented businesses. In terms of product expertise, CIBC offers credit products tailored to the individual requirements of middle-market and large corporate clients. The large array of featured products includes project finance, bridge and acquisition financing, revolvers, and commercial paper back-up lines. The Global Capital Markets team of CIBC assists institutional clients around the globe to generate, syndicate, sell and trade equity and debt instruments. The team helps clients attain their hedging and investment goals using derivatives. CIBC offers a large variety of equity services and products, including hedge fund services, research equity structured products, and sales and trading. Other services include portfolio and electronic trading, as well as international equities. The Fixed Income, Currencies, and Distribution team of CIBC works with institutional clients in Canada, the United States, Asia, and Europe. The team offers stocks, fixed income products and services, among which securitization and syndication, private placement, and foreign exchange products. The team also offers money market and trading and sales of fixed income. The bank’s Derivatives Group works with professionals in Toronto, Tokyo, New York, and other major financial centers. It offers interest rate products such as options, swaps, and retail structured notes which are based on the underlying markets in Canada, USA, Asia, and Europe. Institutional investors are provided actionable trade ideas and market information by the CIBC’s Global Fixed Income Sales team. These are aimed to support the clients’ hedging and fixed income trading objectives. CIBC runs offices in Toronto, London, and Singapore, among others, which maintain strong relationships with a variety of institutional investors worldwide. The Money Market group handles the origination, distribution, and trading of short-term debt instruments for clients in the USA and Canada. Among the many money market products offered are provincial debt securities, Government of Canada treasury bills, auction rate securities, REPO rate arrangements, and others. CIBC World Markets works with individual investors as well, through its two main operating arms, Wholesale Banking and CIBC Retail Markets. A full range of financial services and products are offered to close to 11 million small business, individual, corporate, commercial, institutional clients. As one of the top 5 Canadian banks, CIBC offers a number of financial management services related to credit management, investment management, cash management, and wealth protection. The Private Wealth Management of CBC features investment opportunities and services – from mutual funds to GICs. Wealth protection focuses on clients with special tax planning, estate planning, and investment needs. Private Wealth Advisors offer expert advice and services such as tax-optimization strategies, inter-generational wealth transfer, and estate planning. Advisors work in cooperation with tax and legal advisors to find the best solutions for their clients. Finally, cash management services range from routine to more sophisticated transactions, helping to meet the banking and cash management needs of clients.