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Thanks for calling it out. Caused me to go back and dig a little deeper.

The numbering format got a little wonky but you'll see Citi at the #3 position above (listed as #2). I'll admit that I pulled the info from a CNBC article https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/07/here-are-the-biggest-us-banks-with-bbt-…</a">here. Seems like they used another differentiator than the standard bank holding company definition. I imagine they used banks with a retail banking arm to push the merger higher up the ranks but they didn't define it. If I was being 100% correct, I would have used the https://www.ffiec.gov/nicpubweb/nicweb/HCSGreaterThan10B.aspx</a">National Information Center data.

If that's the case, the top 10 looks like:
Ranked by Assets ($billion)

  1. JPM - 2,615

  2. BofA - 2,339

  3. Citigroup - 1,925

  4. WFC - 1,873

  5. GS - 957

  6. MS - 866

  7. US Bancorp - 465

  8. BB&T/STI - 442

  9. TD - 381

  10. PNC - 380

 

Will this mean that the combined bank will be a bigger player in investment banking? I'm assuming the main reason for the merger was to consolidate and save on overlapping retail bank locations, right? I'm also wondering if this means IBD moves with the new bank to NC or if STRH will mostly stay in Atlanta. Anyone with insight?

 

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