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Five Largest U.S. Investment Banks Made A Whopping $9.5 Billion From Equities Trading In Q1
The largest U.S. investment banks gained substantially from increased volatility in equity capital markets over the first quarter, as they reported a little over $9.5 billion in equity trading revenues for the period – the highest since the...
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How Much In Debt Origination Fees Did The Largest U.S. Investment Banks Earn In Q1?
The five largest U.S investment banks pocketed just over $3.6 billion in debt origination fees in Q1 2018 – well below the $3.9 billion they made in the previous quarter and also lower than the $3.8 billion figure a year ago. While the firs...
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How Much In Equity Underwriting Fees Did The Largest U.S. Investment Banks Earn In Q1?
The five largest U.S investment banks reported $1.7 billion in equity underwriting fees in Q1 2018 – almost identical to the figure reported in Q1 2017 as well as Q4 2017. However, as total equity underwriting fees for all investment banks ...
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How Much In M&A Advisory Fees Did The Largest U.S. Investment Banks Earn In Q1?
The five largest U.S investment banks reported a little over $2.2 billion in M&A advisory fees in Q1 2018 – a notable reduction from the figure of $2.4 billion a year ago, and almost $2.6 billion for the previous quarter. While the firs...
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Demand For Securitized Products Helps Citi Reach #1 Spot In Debt Capital Markets
U.S. debt capital markets continued to benefit from an elevated level of activity owing to the Fed’s rate hike plan over Q1 2018. And the five largest U.S. banks did their best to capture more than 26% of the total debt origination fees t...
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Global Debt Origination Fees For Q1 Were Notably Lower Than A Year Ago
The first quarter of the year is seasonally the strongest period for global debt capital markets, and with U.S. companies going through with their plans to raise debt as soon as possible to beat the Fed’s ongoing rate hikes, Q1 2018 turned ...
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Morgan Stanley’s Q1 Equity Underwriting Fees To Get A Boost From Strong Showing In U.S.
The five largest U.S. banks made the most of upbeat equity market conditions over the first quarter of the year – helping companies around the world raise almost $79 billion in fresh equity for the period. This represents almost 40% of the...
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Investment Banks Set To Report Lower Q1 Equity Underwriting Fees Despite Upbeat Market Conditions
Global equity capital markets started the year 2018 on a positive note, with companies around the globe raising more than $200 billion in fresh capital through IPOs and FPOs for the first quarter, according to quarterly data published by Thomson...
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Debt Origination Fees For Largest U.S. Banks Crossed $15 Billion For First Time In 2017
The five largest U.S. investment banks made the most of the increased demand for debt origination services globally in 2017 to pocket more than $15.2 billion in fees from debt capital market activities (including loan syndication). This is the mo...
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How Will Bank of America Be Affected If Wealth Advisor Exodus Continues?
Bank of America recently lost a team of wealth advisors managing about $1 billion in client assets, as they quit the bank’s wealth management unit to set up an independent wealth management firm. This development is the latest in the ongoin...
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Equity Underwriting Fees For The Largest U.S. Investment Banks Recovered To $6 Billion In 2017
Equity underwriting fees for the five largest U.S. investment banks improved to $6.1 billion for full-year 2017 from the unusually low figure of $4.4 billion in 2016, but remained sub-par given that the average over the last ten years was $6.4 bi...
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Largest U.S. Investment Banks Made $10 Billion In M&A Advisory Fees In 2017, But Wallet Share Is Shrinking
A surge in global M&A activity over 2017 helped advisory fees for the five largest U.S. investment banks jump to $10.2 billion for the year – up from $9.5 billion in 2016. In fact, the combined M&A advisory fees for these banks was ...
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Bank Of America Shares Could Be Worth $41 By The End Of Next Year
Bank of America’s shares have gained considerably since late 2016 thanks to a combination of steadily rising interest rates, improving operating efficiency and a strong economic outlook. Notably, this helped the bank’s stock price ris...
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Bank of America’s Stock Looks Less Sensitive To Fed Rate Hikes Than Peers
Late last week, the President of the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank, John Williams, hinted at the possibility of four rate hikes in 2018 . It is largely assumed that the Fed will hike rates three times this year, but Williams argued that upbe...
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Largest U.S. Banks To Report Sequential Decline In Debt Origination Fees Despite Improved Wallet Share
The five largest U.S. investment banks saw their total debt origination volumes shrink 10% compared to the figure for the previous quarter – faring better than the overall industry that declined by 22% over the same period. While this helpe...
