Breaking Into Wall Street – BIWS Bank & Financial Institution Modeling

About Course:

Module 1: Bank Overview: Accounting, Valuation, and Regulations: You’ll discover how banks operate and why you can’t rely on traditional metrics, multiples, or modeling.

Module 2: Bank Operating Model (Shawbrook): You will construct a detailed operating model for Shawbrook, including calculations for its loan portfolio, three statements, and regulatory capital under Basel III.

Module 3: Bank Valuation (Shawbrook): You will build a full-fledged valuation model for Shawbrook based on public company comparable, precedent transactions, a regression analysis, and dividend discount and residual income models. You’ll then use these to write a stock pitch, equity research report, and IB pitch book for the company.

Module 4: Bank Merger Model (KeyCorp / First Niagara): You’ll build a full merger model for KeyCorp’s $4.1 billion acquisition of First Niagara, and you’ll make a recommendation on the deal in a short presentation at the end after learning about the key differences with bank merger models.

Module 5: Bank Growth Equity Deals (ANZ): You’ll build a half-year operating model for ANZ and use it make a recommendation on a minority-stake investment in the company; you’ll also learn how a bank might use such an investment to shore up its regulatory capital ratios.

Module 6: Bank Buyout Deals (Philippine Bank of Communications): You will build a buyout model for a 100% acquisition of PBC in this module, learn how NPL divestitures work, and make a short investment recommendation at the end.

BONUS- Module 7: Insurance Overview: In this module, you’ll get a crash course in all things insurance-related, from the business model to the financial statements, projections, and valuation.

BIWS Bank & Financial Institution Modeling – Break Into Wall Street