List of investment banks

The following list catalogues the largest, most profitable, and otherwise notable investment banks.

As an industry it is broken up into the Bulge Bracket (upper tier), Middle Market (mid-level businesses), and boutique market (specialized businesses).

The following are the largest full-service global investment banks; full-service investment banks usually provide both advisory and financing banking services, as well as sales, market making, and research on a broad array of financial products, including equities, credit, rates, currency, commodities, and their derivatives.

Such combinations were common in Europe but illegal in the United States prior to the passage of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999.

The following are large investment banking firms (not listed above) that are affiliated with large financial institutions:[4] Private placement agents, including companies that specialize in fundraising for private equity funds:[6][7] The following is a list of other boutique advisory firms and capital markets firms that have some notability:[citation needed] The following are notable investment banking and brokerage firms that have been liquidated, acquired or merged and no longer operate under the same name.