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Investment Banking in Singapore: The Best Gateway to Asia for the Non-Chinese?

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The basic difference is that the international bulge bracket banks tend to be stronger in M&A advisory and weaker in equity and debt capital markets. These banks focus on the capital markets, so you should target the bulge brackets if you want to work on M&A deals. 7,200 | U.K.: 3,200 | U.K.: ~500

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Investment Banking in Dubai: The New York of the Middle East?

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bulge-bracket banks , such as JPM, GS, MS, and Citi, always rank well in the league tables. The other bulge brackets (BofA, Barclays, UBS, and DB) tend to rank lower, but this varies each year. I’ll back this up by citing Capital IQ data about the number of firms in different regions: Private Equity Firms: S.: