Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) comprises the Group’s wholesale businesses in all the geographical areas where it operates. Its function is to develop products and offers services that provide added-value solutions for wholesale customers, i.e. large corporations and institutional investors, and retail customers, i.e. SMEs, large companies and institutions. These products and services include: Structured & Syndicated Lending (financing activity), Global Transaction Banking (transactional business), Corporate Finance (financial advice and investment banking) and Global Markets (trading and distribution business).