Industry resources: databases, news, subscriptions & slide decks
Where the information behind European investment banking, M&A and deal advisory work comes from: company filings and registries, the financial press, newsletters, and the slide decks banks publish for investor days.
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.
- 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 layers of information on every live mandate: primary filings to verify historical financials, the daily financial press to track live negotiations, specialist newsletters for how deals are structured, and banks' own slide decks for how a presentation and a valuation football field are laid out.
Sources
- 1Florian P. Meyer, Praxisratgeber Investment Banking Interviews (Financial Career, 2016), ch. IV
- 2Wall Street Prep, investment banker career path (updated 1 Jul 2026)