Merger: MS & Citi

fishbeancake — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:54:16 -0400

Heard from friends working internally at both banks that MS is looking into a tie up with Citi. Not sure how much credence to give, but at this point, I can imagine that anything is possible.

Newest Vault Rankings for Banks

fishbeancake — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 01:53:24 -0400

2009
RANK FIRM SCORE 2008
RANK HEADQUARTERS
1 Goldman Sachs & Company
2 The Blackstone Group
3 Morgan Stanley
4 Lehman Brothers
5 J.P. Morgan Investment Bank
6 Merrill Lynch
7 Lazard
8 Credit Suisse's Investment Banking Business
9 Deutsche Bank
10 UBS Investment Bank
11 Citi Institutional Clients Group
12 Chase Commercial Bank
13 Greenhill & Co.
14 Barclays Capital
15 Rothschild
16 Bear Stearns*
17 Bank of America
18 Wachovia Corporation
19 Citi Consumer Banking
20 HSBC North America Holdings
21 Houlihan Lokey
22 Royal Bank of Scotland
23 Perella Weinberg Partners
24 Jefferies & Company
25 Evercore Partners

http://www.vault.com/nr/finance_rankings/finance_rankings.jsp?finance200...