Question: Are GCA Savvian and Houlihan Lokey both global investment banks?

Context articles: Michael Moran (journalist)
RFQ-hub
Greg Hawkins
Houlihan Lokey
Andrew Stotz
GCA Savvian
Constellation Place
Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act
Lombard Street Research
Pitch book

Michael E. Moran (born May 1962, Kearny, New Jersey) is an author and analyst of international affairs, a digital documentarian and Principal and lead United States analyst at Control Risks, a global political risk and security consultancy.
 A foreign policy journalist and geostrategist for investment banks and financial consultancies, he is author of 'The Fastest Billion: The Story Behind Africa's Economic Revolution'.
 Moran served as Editor-in-Chief at the investment bank Renaissance Capital and has been a collaborator of renowned economist Nouriel Roubini as well commentator for "Slate", the BBC and NBC News.
 He is also an adjunct professor of journalism at Bard College, a Visiting Fellow in Peace and Security at the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and was the founding editor of the award-winning Crisis Guides documentary series for the Council on Foreign Relations.
ID’S RFQ-hub is a software and computing services company dedicated to the finance industry.
 The company develops the multi-dealer trading solution RFQ-hub (request-for-quote hub) for cash equity (ETFs and PT) and cross assets listed and OTC derivatives (F&O, Total Return Swaps, Variance Swaps, Forwards…).
 RFQ-hub organises the transactional workflow, allowing asset managers to send and receive competing and tradable quotes electronically from a pool of global investment banks, directly from their own systems.
 RFQ-hub allows receiving selected trade axes & indication of interests from sell-sides.
 It provides business intelligence and statistical reports including brokers’ review or Client Relationship Management analytics.
 The Deutsche Börse Group (EUREX) acquired a minority stake in ID’S in November 2010.
Gregory Dale Hawkins was a trader and principal in the hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management that after four spectacularly successful years lost most of its clients' money in 1998 when the Russian government defaulted on its debt payments on August 17, 1998, triggering a devaluation of the Russian ruble.
 Long-Term Capital had $4.6 billion in portfolio losses in a few months and only avoided outright bankruptcy because the U.S. central bank prompted a consortium of large global investment banks and counter-parties of LTCM to provide an equity bailout.
 LTCM shutdown in early 2000.
Houlihan Lokey, Inc., is an independent, advisory-focused, global investment bank.
 Houlihan Lokey was founded in 1972 and is headquartered at Constellation Place in Century City, Los Angeles, California.
 The firm advises large public and closely held companies as well as institutions and governments.
 Its main service lines include mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, restructuring and distressed M&A, fairness opinions, valuations, and strategic consulting.
 As of early 2017, Houlihan Lokey employed more than 1,161 employees worldwide.
Andrew Stotz, CFA is the current President of the CFA Society Thailand and is one of Thailand’s award-winning equity analysts.
 He is also the founder and CEO of A.Stotz Investment Research (ASIR), a financial services company based in Bangkok, Thailand.
 Prior to launching ASIR he had spent 20 years working global investment banks in Asia.
 He has also been a university lecturer in finance for more than two decades and is a co-founder of CoffeeWORKS Co. Ltd., Thailand’s specialty coffee roaster.
GCA, previously known as GCA Savvian Corporation, is an independent global investment bank.
Constellation Place is a 35-story, 492 ft skyscraper in the Los Angeles, California community of Century City.
 It houses the headquarters of Houlihan Lokey, ICM Partners, and International Lease Finance Corporation (ILFC).
The Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act (GLBA), also known as the Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999, (Pub.L.
 106–102 , 113 Stat.
 1338 , enacted  12, 1999 ) is an act of the 106th United States Congress (1999–2001).
 It repealed part of the Glass–Steagall Act of 1933, removing barriers in the market among banking companies, securities companies and insurance companies that prohibited any one institution from acting as any combination of an investment bank, a commercial bank, and an insurance company.
 With the bipartisan passage of the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act, commercial banks, investment banks, securities firms, and insurance companies were allowed to consolidate.
 Furthermore, it failed to give to the SEC or any other financial regulatory agency the authority to regulate large investment bank holding companies.
 The legislation was signed into law by President Bill Clinton.
Lombard Street Research (LSR) is a macroeconomic forecasting consultancy with headquarters in London and offices in New York and Hong Kong.
 LSR provides research and advisory services to a global network of influential investors including: asset managers, hedge funds, pension funds, Central Banks, private equity funds, investment banks and corporations.
A pitch book is a marketing presentation (information layout) used by investment banks around the world.
 It consists of a careful arrangement and analysis of the investment considerations of a potential or current client, and/or a reference for comparison for an employee in an investment or commercial bank.
 Its purpose is to secure a deal for the investment bank with the potential client.