What are the fastest growing Investment Banks
In terms of as a whole, what banks have the greatest growth forecast. I'm just curious and am speaking specifically for the MM group. (Think Wells Fargo, BMO, TD Securities, etc.)
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Blair blew up during Covid, tripled revenue or something like that
is this a joke, WHY would anyone want to work at William Blair unless you wanted to freeze your ass off in Chicago LOL
Looks like someone didn’t get an offer from Blair
Congrats on the Wells offer!
I have heard solid reviews on William Blair.
Would you care to provide your insight aside from the weather in Chicago, IL?
NYC aint warm either. and its not like theres a lot of banking in Miami or even LA.
Because of those sweet, sweet cursive letters in their logo! Prestigious af to have that on your LinkedIn or business card.
Every bank did this during covid...
How sweaty are they though?
Svb
Canaccord
Do you have any insight into their comp, hours, etc.?
Goldman
Rothschild more than doubled it’s summer analysts in NA and tripled summer associates from last year
I'd say Jeffries tbh, they've broken into the top 10 with such a small headcount
macquarie in usa
the fact that every answer above is different tells me MM IB in general is doing pretty well these days
Nah, it just means we have a lot of interns that just when through the company training and are still drinking the corporate Kool-aide.
Or it means you didn’t read the post and missed the part where OP specifically asked for MM firms.
MM has seen the biggest growth - every PE firm is going after that 200M-2B range and the banks that specialize there caught a lot of the tailwinds.
BAML is crazy smart with the new EGRC group. Deal flow is heavily skewed towards Cap Market like work but helps BAML reach the MM space. The volume of deals in the Big Cap space is shrinking.
Rothschild in USA
Lmao. These answers from first year analysts shilling their respective firms are comical.
Given your experience, who is it then?
Most underrated and fastest growing is Houlihan Lokey’s Corporate Finance Group. Huge growth in Asia and Europe recently (not just in RX). US groups also growing and getting a lot of seniors guys from top banks (Not sure why).
No one wants to work for HL. Come on.
Why’s that?
Not really MM but I know that Ducera has experienced great growth the past few years
Ducera has a super toxic culture and is run by some ex-HL RX guys.
most partners are ex-PWP right?
FTP is definitely one of the ones that has grown the most as the fintech sector has been hot. Whilst the FTP story on WSO is always fake negative, the real story everyone in the actual know sees is the strong growth and dominance in one of the most important sectors. That's I suppose why they can pay more then Goldman, Qatalyst and Centerview and according to the WS Journal the CEO has a $75mm plane I guess (from another thread):
https://www.wsj.com/articles/this-banker-is-minting-money-in-the-fintec…
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Do Nomura and Mizuho have large presences in China?
Nomura is doing an okay job in China. (One and a half decades ago it gave up Chinese market, but recently it has returned.) Mizuho probably doesn't have a large presence there. Daiwa is trying to expand some branches in Shanghai and Beijing.
Didn’t marlin get acquired by DA Davidson?
Throwing Lincoln International in here as well. Tripled intern class from last year and groups are growing like crazy
They're looking to increase headcount in London by 50% in the next two years. Already looking for new offices.
Truist
Fuck off dude, you guys are trash
EVR in London
Baird closed a record number of deals in '21 and I think '22 is / was on pace to mimic '21 performance. With the recent economic events leaving M&A a bit more uncertain, itll be hard to tell if they continue this trend.
Is comp at Baird really that good
"Which banks," you scrub
to summarize this thread, all banks were doing fantastic when Fed was printing money 24/7 and stock market doubled within a year.
however, you guys are all fucked in the upcoming year, now that the sentiment changed.
RX Masterrace
Wow no mention of our beloved RBC yet. Huge push for growth in the US and Europe.
RBC is life, RBC is love
Jmp, Lincoln, SVB doing absurd things to grow themselves
Please explain
Citizens doing exactly what RBC did to put together their IB platform years ago— acquiring extremely solid more regional investment banks and integrating them over a few years. Citizens bought JMP (various verticals nationally), DH Capital (pretty good tech firm in NY), Bowstring Advisors in South, etc. where all targets are pretty formidable shops. Citizens has huge DCM presence and frankly sell-side / buy-side companies want advisors in transactions from the people that already know their company and lend to them.
Lincoln silently kills it internationally (especially Asia). They have good retention and culture and are starting to work on bigger deals. SVB is also trying to establish themself with an elitist culture — some of the smartest kids I know went to SVB.
It really depends on multiple metrics when they say “growing”. Growing from within (employee retention), growing in status, growing in deal volume, comp…
Wedbush
This is a joke right?
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