Objectively Ranking the Top 50 Banks by Prestige

Been a while since anyone has ranked banks based upon their prestige on here. Wanted to leave everyone with a reference point, based upon hard facts and data (liberals can't stand these ranking). 

Top Tier: 

1) Goldman Sachs

2) Morgan Stanley

3) JP Morgan

Elite: 

4) Lazard

5) Evercore

6) Centerview

7) BofA

8) Moelis

9) PJT Partners

10) PWP

11) Barclays

12) Citi

13) Credit Suisse

Very Prestigious: 

14) Jefferies

15) UBS

16) Guggenheim

17) RBC

18) Rothschild

19) Greenhill 

20) Qatalyst

21) Deutsche Bank

22) Blair

23) Piper Sandler

24) WFC

25) Macquarie

26) Baird

27) Cowen

28) Raymond James

29) Oppenheimer

Who is That?:

30) Solomon Partners

31) Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. 

32) Harris Williams

33) BNP Paribas

34) HSBC

35) Cantor Fitzgerald

36) Deloitte CF

37) Brown Brothers Harriman

38) BNY Mellon

39) KPMG CF

Naw Fam, You Gotta KYS:

40) Nomura

41) Stifel

42) Societe Generale

43) TD Securities

44) Mizuho

45) ING

46) B Riley

47) Royal Bank of Scotland

48) JMP

49) Susquehanna International Group

50) Ladenburg Thalman

14 Comments
 

Yeah but they're also based in bum-fuck PA and not prestigious. Imagine you're at a bar and lean in to tell a beautiful woman, "Hey, I work for SIG. I know these words mean nothing to you, but we are INSANE, no hold that, BETTER THAN INSANE, at trading and growth equity"

SIG

 

Been a while since anyone has ranked banks based upon their prestige on here.

Not really. Is has not been a while since someone ranked banks by prestige on here...

 

Everyone loves to dickride their banks and praise them super highly but like im at RBC and i will easily and gladly admit there is no way in hell Greenhill is less prestigious than us lol 

 

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