Investment Banking and Its Features in Russia

The banking business is transforming under current economic realities. This is not about increasing the role of financial technology or the Fintech industry in banking practice. The essence of modern transformation of the banking sector is its expansion, the capture of new market segments. A modern bank is an independent ecosystem with its own production potential, characterized both by production assets of pledging clients and by its own IT centers developing new digital financial assets. However, banking expansion also occurs in an extensive way. Banks begin to expand the range of their potential customers abroad, becoming transnational financial institutions, the task of which is to provide their new customers with a full range of investment services. The purpose of this study is to analyze the features of the investment banking development in Russia. For this, the following tasks are solved: a list of operations performed by domestic banks is determined, and the investment position of the domestic economy is analyzed to identify the development potential of investment banking in our country. Key research methods include synthesis, analysis, and expert judgment. The results of the study are reflected in a table representing the international investment position of the Russian Federation.