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Post a RequestUnderwrite Definition
underwrite – v : to assume financial risk as an
underwriter. Investment banks are in the business of helping companies raise
capital from public and private financial markets by underwriting companies’ issuances
of either debt or equity securities. The act of underwriting entails the
investment bank (a.k.a. underwriter) purchasing the entire security issuance
from the issuing company and then reselling those securities, typically to a
syndicate of institutional and/or individual investors.
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