investment bank
An investment bank is a cunning artist of finance who, using other people’s capital instead of its own, extracts profit from the world’s largest gambling halls. In their so-called deal rooms, they wield the arcane arts of numerology, taming beasts known as risks. They boast of rescuing firms on the brink of collapse, while secretly engineering fresh crises to guarantee perpetual revenue. Their skyscraper headquarters stand either as temples to capital or labyrinths of greed. One could say their true client is not the market, but their own fees.