Industry resources: databases, news, subscriptions & slide decks
A curated directory of the essential information architecture used in European investment banking, M&A and deal advisory: statutory disclosure registries, financial news publications, institutional newsletters, Bulge Bracket investor day presentations, and authentic pitch deck frameworks.
- Filings & DataPrimary disclosure & models
- SEC EDGAR
- Companies House
- Unternehmensregister
- Damodaran Online
- FRED Macro
- Financial PressDaily deal journalism
- Financial Times (Lex)
- Bloomberg Deals
- Reuters Breakingviews
- Handelsblatt
- Börsen-Zeitung
- SubscriptionsCurated daily intelligence
- Matt Levine (Money Stuff)
- FT Due Diligence
- Exec Sum (Litquidity)
- PitchBook News
- The Banker
- Institutional DecksStrategy & board presentations
- Goldman Sachs Investor Day
- Morgan Stanley Strategy
- JPMorgan CIB
- Deutsche Bank Deep Dive
- SEC S-4 Board Decks
Four distinct categories of deal intelligence: statutory disclosure registries, daily financial journalism, analytical subscriptions, and institutional strategy decks.
The analyst's daily information workflow1,2
An investment banking analyst moves between four distinct layers of information on every live mandate: primary statutory filings to verify historical financials, daily financial press to track active negotiations, specialized analytical newsletters for structural deal mechanics, and institutional slide decks to model presentation architecture and valuation football fields.
How to navigate the four resource pillars3
The directory is organised into four dedicated sections accessible directly from the navigation bar: Databases & Filings for primary statutory registers and valuation data; Financial News for real-time market reporting; Subscriptions for analyst newsletters; and Slide Decks for Bulge Bracket investor presentations and authentic M&A pitch books.
Statutory corporate disclosure registries, macroeconomic time series, financial modeling conventions, and industry valuation benchmarks.
The daily financial press required to follow transaction announcements, capital market conditions, and corporate takeovers.
The essential daily and weekly newsletters finance professionals read for M&A rumors, deal engineering, and balance sheet analysis.
Audited institutional strategy presentations from Bulge Bracket banks, pitch deck anatomy, public SEC Form S-4 fairness exhibits, and slide references from real deal files.
sources (3)
- 1Florian P. Meyer, Praxisratgeber Investment Banking Interviews (Financial Career, 2016), ch. IV
- 2Wall Street Prep, investment banker career path (updated 1 Jul 2026)
- 3Wiley, Rosenbaum and Pearl, Investment Banking: Valuation, LBOs, M&A, and IPOs, 3rd edition (March 2020)