Complex interest rate options: Merrill Lynch, London, FICC Structuring Desk, Europe

Abstract

Merrill Lynch is one of the world's leading wealth management, capital markets and advisory companies with offices in 37 countries and territories and total client assets of approximately $1.6 trillion. Merrill Lynch offers a broad range of services to private clients. Small businesses and institutions and corporations. Organizing its activities into two interrelated business segments - Global Markets and Investment Banking Group and Global Wealth management, which is comprised of Global Private Client and Global Investment management. As an investment bank. it is a leading global trader and underwriter of securities and derivatives across a broad range of asset classes and serves as a strategic advisor to corporations, governments, institutions and individuals worldwide. Merrill Lynch owns approximately half of BlackRock. one of the world's largest publicly traded investment management companies, with more than $1 trillion in assets under management.