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Investment Banking

The Industry Today

The U.S. investment banking industry includes 3,400 companies with combined annual revenue of about $40 billion in 2018, according to Dealogic, a financial markets platform. Investment worldwide earned $81 billion in 2018. Investment banking is highly concentrated: the cost of capital tilts the competitive playing field in favor of the largest banks. The 50 largest firms generate more than 90 percent of the industry’s revenue, according to Hoover’s, a business research company. Investment banking is capital intensive and labor-intensive industry, yet it delivers a very high-value product.

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