SVB vs. Capital One - Who Has More Potential to Become a Full-Service IB?

Both Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Capital One have made significant acquisitions of well-known IB and ER boutiques over the past two years, SVB acquiring Leerink/MoffettNathanson and Capital One acquiring KippsDeSanto/TripleTree. They both seem very eager to become Full-Service Investment Banks. Which of the two do you think has more potential? Interested to also find out which IB (SVB Leerink, Kipps, or TripleTree) is a better place to work for in terms of pay, culture, prestige, and exits?

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SVB is in another league compared to CapOne and I'm not even trying to be a dick rider

 

I would assume SVB as they own the startup through liquidity space in tech / healthcare for start ups and fast growing firms. They bank s a large % (something like 60%)of all the VCs and PE shops and their portco principals. Manage a lot of liquidity events. Would only make sense that they get far deeper in the actual IB advisory service lines as they own many of these relationships.

 

Definitely SVB. Caliber of banking talent combined with the early corporate banking relations is leagues ahead.

 

As a person who is VERY (very) familiar with capital one, they are not a full service IB and are not intending to be one. they want to be a tech company not “step back” towards traditional finance.

if you want IB, SVB is the way to go if the only thing you’re comparing to is capital one.

Capital one is where you go if you want to be a business analyst sql/tableau/python person or if you want product management. the financial analysts at cap one are looked at as the equivalent of middle office when compared with the business analyst/product job families.

 

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