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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 |