Unfortunately Chinese investment banks do not really take cold calls. Either you have guanxi (your dad is someone important in the Han elite) or you get in through the front door with a prestigious school, excellent grades in a quantitative discipline and fluent Mandarin Chinese. Prestigious schools include Ivy League schools

Here is a list of mid-market investment banks that provide investment banking/corporate finance advisory services to medium capitalization (pertaining to enterprise value) companies. Although there are no hard and fast rules for what is defined as middle market, these companies will generally be too small to be banked by the

For sell-side research, there are plenty of investment banks and stockbrokers / broker-dealers who publish equity research on companies that they cover. Credit and macro research also exists for the benefit of the firms' clients. There are two sets of stakeholders who would like equity research coverage. For the corporates themselves

List of Commercial Banks in the US Silicon Valley Bank (SIVB) Zion Bancorp Wells Fargo Bank of America Union Bank JP Morgan Chase Citibank Mainfirst Amergy Comerica BOK Financial Cadence Bancorp Bank 7 Citizens Bank TD Bank Capital One U.S. Bancorp Keybank Suntrust Associated Bank BMO Harris Bank City National

List of Major Investment Banks in Canada Domestic RBC Capital Markets BMO Capital Markets TD Securities CIBC Capital Markets Scotiabank Global Banking & Markets National Bank Financial The Big 5 have historically dominated Canadian investment banking and capital markets advisory. They are also large commercial lenders and provide a full suite of