Investment Bank League Tables

10 years ago

With the end of the first half of the year, league tables are now being compiled for banks in a variety of geographical locations and across a number of different product areas. Here we take a look a three recent sets of tables.

Following are this year's 10 biggest underwriters of dollar-denominated investment-grade corporate debt sold in the US according to Bloomberg data.

The most striking feature of this table is that Merrill Lynch has fallen from second to eighth place.

JP Morgan $58.8bn

Salomon $56.1bn

Lehman $40.4bn

Bank of America $35.4bn

Morgan Stanley $32.6bn

CSFB 24.8bn

Deutsche $21.6bn

Merrill $21.4bn

Goldman $15.6bn

UBS Warburg $8.7bn

Listed immediately below is the top 6 arrangers in Japanese equity sales in the first half of the year according to Bloomberg data.

Nikko Salomon $4.58bn

Nomura $3.45bn

Daiwa $1.23bn

Goldman $1.09bn

Merrill $701m

Morgan Stanley $523m

Finally, there follows the top 10 Asian bond underwriting table for the first half on the year according to Bloomberg data. Goldman Sachs, which sold in excess of $2.4bn in global bonds for Asian clients last year, hasn't done a single deal this year so far.

Morgan Stanley $2.35bn

HSBC $1.52bn

CSFB $1.33bn

Salomon $1.30bn

JP Morgan $1.17bn

UBS Warburg $608m

Deutsche $556m

Merrill $350m

Barclays $233m

ING $100m