Keefe, Bruyette & Woods
Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc. is an investment banking firm headquartered in New York City, specializing exclusively in the financial services sector. KBW's primary business lines include Research, Corporate Finance, Equity Sales and Trading, Fixed Income Sales and Trading, Equity Capital Markets, Debt Capital Markets, and Asset Management.
The firm provides a broad range of services to corporate clients such as banking companies, insurance companies, real estate and REITs, broker-dealers, mortgage banks, asset management companies, and specialty finance firms as well as to the institutional investor community. KBW's research analysts cover more than 600 companies in the financial services industry globally.
The company, which was founded in 1962, currently has eight offices in the United States as well as offices in London, Hong Kong and Tokyo. In 2012, KBW was acquired by Stifel Financial, a financial services holding Company, for $575 million.
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