Here's how much the top Wall Street banks have earned in fees this year

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Jamie Dimon

Reuters

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon. JPMorgan has pulled in more fees than any other investment bank this year.

It has been a miserable start to the year for Wall Street dealmakers.

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Revenues from equity and debt deals and mergers and acquisitions have fallen off a cliff.

Industry-wide global investment banking revenue is down 36% from the first quarter of last year. Revenues are down in pretty much every single business line.

And JPMorgan has taken home the biggest chunk of a shrinking pie, according to Dealogic's preliminary league tables for the first quarter.

League tables are a contentious subject on Wall Street.

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Banks use them when pitching for new business, and a good ranking means serious bragging rights.

But the league table-data can also be sliced up to make a bank's performance look better (by narrowing the field very narrowly, for example).

Though they're based on estimates, these tables are the broadest possible and a closely-watched indicator of who is up and who is down.

Here's how the banks stacked up this time around.