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VAULT BANKING 25: PRESTIGE RANKING

Firm Name	2026 Rank	2026 Score	2025 Rank	2025 Score	2024 Rank	2024 Score	Change in Rank (2026 vs. 2025)	Change in Score (2026 vs. 2025)
Goldman Sachs & Co.	1	8.810	1	8.776	1	8.665	0	0.034
Centerview Partners	2	8.586	2	8.328	4	8.118	0	0.258
Evercore	3	8.205	4	8.127	5	7.972	1	0.078
J.P. Morgan Investment Bank	4	8.178	3	8.162	3	8.133	-1	0.016
Morgan Stanley	5	8.098	5	8.112	2	8.172	0	-0.014
PJT Partners	6	7.329	6	7.182	7	6.891	0	0.147
Qatalyst Partners	7	7.182	9	6.748	10	6.255	2	0.434
Lazard	8	7.112	7	7.141	6	7.109	-1	-0.029
Moelis & Company	9	6.968	8	6.951	8	6.887	-1	0.017
Perella Weinberg Partners	10	6.313	10	6.410	11	6.245	0	-0.097
Guggenheim Securities	11	6.186	12	6.054	12	6.125	1	0.132
Bank of America Corp.	12	6.120	11	6.269	9	6.503	-1	-0.149
CitiGroup	13	5.976	13	6.035	13	6.123	0	-0.059
Jefferies & Co.	14	5.889	14	6.022	14	5.953	0	-0.133
Allen & Company LLC	15	5.740	18	5.440	18	5.585	3	0.300
Barclays (Investment Bank)	16	5.668	15	5.723	15	5.931	-1	-0.055
Rothschild & Co.	17	5.499	16	5.689	16	5.807	-1	-0.190
Houlihan Lokey	18	5.411	17	5.473	19	5.525	-1	-0.062
UBS Investment Banking	19	5.183	20	5.318	20	5.360	1	-0.135
LionTree Advisors	20	4.981	23	4.835	23	4.878	3	0.146
Wells Fargo & Company	21	4.939	26	4.659	25	4.640	5	0.280
William Blair & Company	22	4.880	22	4.977	21	5.135	0	-0.097
Deutsche Bank AG	23	4.846	25	4.769	29	4.492	2	0.077
Piper Sandler Companies	24	4.823	21	5.013	22	4.987	-3	-0.190
RBC Capital Markets	25	4.643	24	4.780	24	4.834	-1	-0.137
Macquarie Group	26	4.527	29	4.523	30	4.424	3	0.004
Gordon Dyal & Company	27	4.520	38	3.861	NR	NR	11	0.659
Raymond James Financial, Inc.	28	4.467	30	4.445	31	4.387	2	0.022
Robert W. Baird & Company (Baird)	29	4.383	27	4.619	27	4.508	-2	-0.236
Harris Williams & Company	30	4.236	28	4.530	26	4.553	-2	-0.294
Oppenheimer & Co.	31	4.011	32	4.126	34	4.115	1	-0.115
HSBC North America Holdings	32	3.993	31	4.184	32	4.271	-1	-0.191
Financial Technology Partners	33	3.936	34	3.959	37	3.958	1	-0.023
Nomura Holdings	34	3.884	35	3.956	40	3.896	1	-0.072
Cantor Fitzgerald	35	3.883	43	NA	NA	NA	8	NA
Mizuho Americas	36	3.878	41	NA	NA	NA	5	NA
Leerink	37	3.873	42	NA	NA	NA	5	NA
TD Securities	38	3.852	44	NA	NA	NA	6	NA
Solomon & Partners	39	3.840	33	4.110	36	4.033	-6	-0.270
Susquehanna Interntional Group	40	3.793	47	NA	NA	NA	7	NA

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