To end all arbitray ranking discussions. Please find the current league table based on IB fees (something tangible compared to your arbitrary measures like prestige)
Insights: RBC > DB Source: Refinitiv (Deallogic)
| +139 | UBS Catastrophic Q1-Q3 26, M&A -17%, Outside Top 10 in Americas, EMEA & APAC | 42 | 22m |
| +64 | PWP acquisition by Piper cancelled | 23 | 22h |
| +44 | No return offer - UPDATE. | 12 | 20h |
| +31 | Evercore poaches Baird DC Defense Team | 24 | 9h |
| +24 | Is my MD a grifter? 16 years, 8 firms | 13 | 7h |
| +22 | Best Houston Banks for Culture in 2026 | 17 | 4h |
| +21 | Lack of talent in IB! | 19 | 1d |
| +18 | Article: UBS Wall Street Rebuild Is a Study in Management Failure | 4 | 16h |
| +17 | Internal lateral from coverage to M&A (focused on coverage) | 4 | 1d |
| +16 | How standard is weekend work in IBD? | 13 | 53m |
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Evercore who? Ain't even on there, fuckin scrubs!
This is peak college kid - yea obviously all the banks with books are going to top the fee tables. Not to mention banks don't make money like widget companies, fees come in large chunks as deals get done. You can't just throw a YTD fee chart up there like it's the be all end all lol.
ohhhh someone salty that there presumably top bank is not so top
No.. it's just that you don't even fucking understand how these fees are calculated Putting that table there is just dumb as fuck because of a big fucking reason: EBs core business model is pure advisory and ZERO balance sheet work
Nice to see a prospect rank Citi above MS just because of some YTD fees.
RBC will kick DBs ass by the end of the year
Every RBC intern is gonna see this and be like omg RBC > DB but I think the main take away is WF > RBC.
Yes because as Wells has proven, fees are its specialty!
Lol RBC interns need validation it's sad
Thanks for the league table :) I am an incoming WF intern and I am glad to see, that we are doing well
Where is UBS
obviously balance sheet banks will be doing a lot better...DCM dealflow is off the charts, ECM / M&A is practically 0. only if you love pricing IG bonds every day is this the league table for you.
I work for BAML and we are better than citi
YTD is dumb to look at in April. Here's the FY 2019 M&A league tables from MergerMarket.
Global:
US:
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