Bulge bracket

Investment banking.

Informal term for the largest investment banks in the world, defined to include - for example: Bank of America, Barclays, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and UBS.

Bulge bracket banks overlap with Tier 1 investment banks, and there are no universally agreed listings of either group.

See also

• Acquisition
• Big 4
• Commercial bank
• Investment bank
• Magic circle
• Merger
• Private equity
• Proprietary trading
• Tier 1
• Universal bank