Financial Services Investment Banking
From creative business solutions to analysis of the latest market trends, the Financial Services Investment Banking group at Raymond James wields considerable expertise for its financial services industry clients and has been involved in more than 360 completed transactions since 2015. Our disciplined senior bankers stay immersed in transactions and average more than 16 years of experience across all sectors of the financial services industry. A personalized, client-centric approach to a full array of business services remains a hallmark of our group and of Raymond James.
Financial Services Sector Expertise
- Asset & Wealth Management
- BDCs, Closed-End Funds & SPACs
- Depositories
- Insurance & Insurance Services
- Specialty Finance
Financial Services Insights
Transaction History
December 2025
About Coastal Carolina Bancshares, Inc.
Coastal Carolina Bancshares is the bank holding company for Coastal Carolina National Bank, a South Carolina state-chartered bank headquartered in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
December 2025
About Customers Bancorp, Inc.
Customers Bancorp, Inc. (NYSE:CUBI) is one of the nation’s top-performing banking companies with $24.3 billion in assets as of September 30, 2025, making it one of the 80 largest bank holding companies in the United States.
December 2025
About Miami International Holdings
Miami International Holdings, Inc. (MIAX) is a technology-driven leader in building and operating regulated financial markets across multiple asset classes and geographies.
December 2025
About South Plains Financial, Inc.
South Plains is the bank holding company for City Bank, a Texas state-chartered bank headquartered in Lubbock, Texas.
November 2025
About Alesco Advsiors LLC
Alesco Advisors LLC is a Pittsford, NY-based RIA with more than $6 billion in assets under advisement, providing comprehensive wealth advisory and outsourced chief investment officer services to high-net-worth families and individuals, institutions, and retirement plans.
November 2025
About OP Bancorp
OP Bancorp (NASDAQ: OPBK) is the Los Angeles-based holding company for Open Bank, a leading Korean American community bank. Founded in 2005, Open Bank reported $2.6 billion in total assets as of September 30, 2025.
November 2025
About Blue Owl Capital Corporation
Blue Owl Capital Corporation (NYSE: OBDC) is a specialty finance company focused on lending to U.S. middle-market companies.
November 2025
About First Financial Corporation
First Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: THFF) is the holding company for First Financial Bank N.A. First Financial Bank N.A. is the fifth oldest national bank in the United States, operating 79 banking centers in Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee.
October 2025
About OneAZ Credit Union
Serving Arizona since 1951, OneAZ Credit Union is a financial powerhouse managing over $3.6 billion in assets and serving over 220,000 members across 21 branches statewide.
October 2025
About CNG Holdings, Inc.
CNG Holdings, Inc. is a leading retail and online provider of alternative financial services to underbanked consumers in the United States through its operating segments, Axcess Financial (direct-to-consumer finance entity) and Cash Store (retail entity providing loan and cash advances).
October 2025
About Third Coast Bancshares, Inc.
Third Coast Bancshares, Inc. (NYSE & NYSE Texas: TCBX) is a commercially focused, Texas-based bank holding company operating primarily in the Greater Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth, and Austin-San Antonio markets through its wholly owned subsidiary, Third Coast Bank.
October 2025
About Middlefield Banc Corp.
Middlefield Banc Corp., headquartered in Middlefield, Ohio, is the bank holding company of The Middlefield Banking Company, with total assets of $1.98 billion at September 30, 2025.
October 2025
About Battle Financial, Inc.
Battle Financial, Inc., headquartered in Edwards, Colorado, and founded by banking industry veterans with decades of experience in precious metals, lending, and retirement accounts, seeks to launch Battle Bank, N.A.
October 2025
About Blackstone Secured Lending Fund
Blackstone Secured Lending Fund (NYSE: BXSL) is a specialty finance company that invests primarily in the debt of private U.S. companies.
October 2025
About Fidus Investment Corporation
Fidus Investment Corporation provides customized debt and equity financing solutions to lower middle-market companies, which management generally defines as U.S. based companies with revenues between $10 million and $150 million.
October 2025
About Seacoast Banking Corporation of Florida
Seacoast Banking Corporation of Florida (NASDAQ: SBCF) is one of the largest community banks headquartered in Florida with approximately $15.9 billion in assets and $12.5 billion in deposits as of June 30, 2025.
October 2025
About Neptune Flood Insurance
Neptune is a leading, high-growth, data-driven managing general agent that is revolutionizing the way homeowners and businesses protect against the growing risks of flooding.
October 2025
About PRA Group, Inc.
PRA Group, Inc. (“PRA Group”) is a leading global purchaser and manager of nonperforming loan (“NPL”) portfolios, acquiring charged-off consumer debt, primarily unsecured obligations owed to banks and other credit originators, and leveraging data-driven analytics and customer-focused strategies to recover value.
October 2025
About Carlyle Secured Lending
Carlyle Secured Lending, Inc. is a closed-end, non-diversified and externally managed investment company that has elected to be regulated as a business development company under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
September 2025
About Horace Mann
Horace Mann Educators Corporation is the largest multiline financial services company focused on helping America’s educators and others who serve the community achieve lifelong financial success.
September 2025
About Stellus Capital Investment Corporation
Stellus Capital Investment Corporation is an externally managed, closed-end, non-diversified investment management company that has elected to be regulated as a business development company under the Investment Company Act of 1940.
September 2025
About WesBanco, Inc.
With over 150 years as a community-focused, regional financial services partner, WesBanco Inc. (NASDAQ: WSBC) and its subsidiaries build lasting prosperity through relationships and solutions that empower our customers for success in their financial journeys.
September 2025
About Axos Financial, Inc.
Axos Financial, Inc. (NYSE: AX) is a technology-driven financial services company with $24.7 billion in assets as of June 30, 2025 and one of the most recognized digital banking platforms in the United States.
September 2025
About Simmons First National Corporation
Simmons First National Corporation is a Mid-South based financial holding company that has paid cash dividends to its shareholders for 116 consecutive years.
September 2025
About Barings BDC, Inc.
Barings BDC, Inc. (NYSE: BBDC) is a publicly traded, externally managed investment company that has elected to be treated as a business development company under the Investment Company Act of 1940.
September 2025
About Capital Southwest Corporation
Capital Southwest Corporation (Nasdaq: CSWC) is a Dallas, Texas-based, internally managed business development company with approximately $1.8 billion in investments at fair value as of June 30, 2025.
September 2025
About Customers Bancorp, Inc.
Customers Bancorp, Inc. (NYSE:CUBI) is one of the nation’s top-performing banking companies with over $22 billion in assets making it one of the 80 largest bank holding companies in the U.S.
September 2025
About Goldman Sachs BDC, Inc.
Goldman Sachs BDC, Inc. is a specialty finance company that has elected to be regulated as a business development company under the Investment Company Act of 1940.
September 2025
About Blackstone Private Credit Fund
The Blackstone Private Credit Fund (BCRED) is a non-listed business development company (BDC) that provides income-focused individual investors with access to private credit investments.
September 2025
About Berkshire Hills Bancorp, Inc.
Berkshire Hills Bancorp, Inc. (NYSE: BHLB) is the parent company of Berkshire Bank, a relationship-driven, community-focused bank that delivers industry-leading financial expertise to clients in New England and New York.
August 2025
About The Bancorp, Inc.
The Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: TBBK), headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, through its subsidiary, The Bancorp Bank, National Association, provides a variety of services including providing non-bank financial companies with the people, processes, and technology to meet their unique banking needs.
August 2025
About Lafayette Square
Lafayette Square is a private credit firm lending capital to growing middle market companies in working-class places.
August 2025
About NewtekOne, Inc.
NewtekOne, Inc. is a financial holding company, which along with its bank and non-bank consolidated subsidiaries (collectively, “NewtekOne”), provides a wide range of business and financial solutions under the Newtek brand to independent business owners.
August 2025
About Main Street Capital Corporation
Main Street Capital Corporation is a principal investment firm and business development company focused on providing long-term debt and equity capital to lower middle market and middle market companies.
August 2025
About SmartFinancial, Inc.
With assets exceeding $5 billion, SmartFinancial, Inc. (NYSE: SMBK) is a financial holding company headquartered in Knoxville, TN.
August 2025
About TowneBank
Founded in 1999, TowneBank is a company built on relationships, offering a full range of banking and other financial services, with a focus of serving others and enriching lives.
August 2025
About Miami International Holdings
Miami International Holdings (MIAX) is a technology-driven leader in building and operating regulated financial marketplaces across multiple asset classes and geographies.
August 2025
About EPT 16 LLC
EPT 16 LLC (“EPT 16”) is a private fund between Eagle Point Credit Management LLC (“Eagle Point”) and Trinity Capital Inc.
July 2025
About Accelerant Holdings
Accelerant is a data-driven risk exchange connecting underwriters of specialty insurance risk with risk capital providers.
July 2025
About Heritage NOLA Bancorp
Heritage NOLA Bancorp, Inc. is the holding company for Heritage Bank of St. Tammany, a federally chartered savings bank. Heritage Bank, founded in 1924, is a community bank providing a variety of financial services to residents and businesses in and around St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana.
July 2025
About Simmons First National Corporation
Simmons First National Corporation is a Mid-South based financial holding company that has paid cash dividends to its shareholders for 116 consecutive years.
July 2025
About 2507_Wolterskluwer
Wolters Kluwer is a global leader in information solutions, software, and services for professionals in healthcare; tax and accounting; financial and corporate compliance; legal and regulatory; corporate performance and ESG.
July 2025
About Lake Shore Bancorp, Inc.
Lake Shore Bancorp, Inc. (the “Company”) (NASDAQ: LSBK), the holding company for Lake Shore Savings Bank (the “Bank”), announced on July 18, 2025 the completion of the conversion of the Bank’s former mutual holding company to the stock holding company form of organization. The Bank offers a broad range of retail and commercial lending and deposit services.
July 2025
About FTV Capital
FTV Capital is a sector-focused growth equity investment firm that has raised more than $10.2 billion to invest in innovative, high-growth companies across two sectors: enterprise technology and services and financial technology and services.
July 2025
About Business First Bancshares, Inc.
Business First Bancshares, Inc. operates banking centers and loan production offices across Louisiana and Texas, providing commercial and personal banking products and services.
July 2025
About Plumas Bancorp
Plumas Bancorp (NASDAQ: PLBC) is headquartered in Reno, Nevada and is the holding company for Plumas Bank, which was founded in 1980. Plumas Bank is a full-service community bank headquartered in Quincy, California.
June 2025
About Jefferson Capital
Founded in 2002, Jefferson Capital is an analytically driven purchaser and manager of charged-off and insolvency consumer accounts with operations in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Latin America.
June 2025
About Aerospace Insurance Managers
Aerospace Insurance Managers ("AIM") is a general aviation insurance services provider based in Dallas, Texas.
June 2025
About Blue Owl Technology Finance Corp
Blue Owl Technology Finance Corp. ("OTF") is a specialty finance company focused on making debt and equity investments to U.S. technology-related companies, with a strategic focus on software.
June 2025
About Brown & Brown
Brown & Brown Inc (Brown & Brown) is a diversified insurance agency, wholesale brokerage and service organization.
June 2025
About Barings Private Credit Corporation
Barings Private Credit Corporation is a privately offered perpetual-life BDC that was formed in April 2021. BPCC invests in senior secured private debt instruments in well-established middle-market businesses to help fund acquisitions, growth or refinancing.
May 2025
About Seacoast Banking Corporation of Florida
Seacoast Banking Corporation of Florida is one of the largest community banks headquartered in Florida with approximately $15.7 billion in assets and $12.6 billion in deposits as of March 31, 2025.
May 2025
About American Integrity Insurance Group
American Integrity Insurance Group is one of Florida’s leading providers of residential property insurance, proudly serving more than 385,000 policyholders across Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina.
May 2025
About Aspen
Aspen is a leading specialty insurer and reinsurer that takes a pragmatic, innovative approach to providing bespoke insurance solutions for complex needs.
May 2025
About First Commonwealth
First Commonwealth provides a full range of commercial banking, consumer banking, mortgage, equipment finance, wealth management and insurance products and services through its subsidiaries First Commonwealth Bank and First Commonwealth Insurance Agency.
April 2025
About HarborOne
HarborOne Bancorp, Inc. is the holding company for HarborOne Bank, a Massachusetts-chartered trust company. HarborOne Bank serves the financial needs of consumers, businesses, and municipalities throughout Eastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
April 2025
About American Coastal
American Coastal Insurance Corporation is the holding company of the insurance carrier, American Coastal Insurance Company, which was founded in 2007 for the purpose of insuring Condominium and Homeowner Association properties, and apartments in the state of Florida.
March 2025
About Stellus Capital
Stellus Capital Investment Corporation is an externally managed, closed-end, non-diversified investment management company.
March 2025
About Carlyle
Carlyle Secured Lending, Inc. (“CGBD”) is an externally managed specialty finance company focused on lending to middle-market companies. CGBD is managed by Carlyle Global Credit Investment Management L.L.C., an SEC-registered investment adviser and a wholly owned subsidiary of The Carlyle Group Inc.
March 2025
About F&G Annuities & Life
F&G Annuities & Life, Inc. (NYSE: FG), headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa, is a leading provider of insurance solutions serving retail annuity and life customers and institutional clients, with over $40 billion in assets under management.
March 2025
About Cross Keys Bank
Cross Keys Bank was founded in 1902 and operates 9 full-service branch offices across northern Louisiana and east Texas. As of December 31, 2024, Cross Keys Bank had total assets of approximately $598 million.
March 2025
About Fidus Investment Corporation
Fidus Investment Corporation (NASDAQ: FDUS) is an externally managed, closed-end, non-diversified management investment company that has elected to be treated as a business development company under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
March 2025
About First Busey Corporation
As of June 30, 2024, First Busey Corporation was an $11.97 billion financial holding company headquartered in Champaign, Illinois.
February 2025
About WesBanco
WesBanco, Inc. operates as the bank holding company of Wesbanco Bank, headquartered in Wheeling, West Virginia. The bank provides a wide variety of banking products and services throughout Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.
February 2025
About Oaktree Capital Management
Oaktree Capital Management (“Oaktree”) is a leader among global investment managers specialising in alternative investments, with $202 billion in assets under management as of 31 December 2024.
February 2025
About HGGC
HGGC is a values-driven and partnership-focused private equity firm headquartered in California, with over $8 billion of cumulative capital commitments.
February 2025
About Blackstone Secured Lending
Blackstone Secured Lending Fund is a specialty finance company that invests primarily in the debt of private U.S. companies.
February 2025
About Brooks Macdonald Group
Brooks Macdonald Group plc is one of the UK's leading wealth management firms, with discretionary funds under management of £17.9 billion as at 30 September 2024.
February 2025
About Sixth Street Specialty Lending
Sixth Street Specialty Lending, Inc. (NYSE: TSLX) is a specialty finance company focused on lending to middle-market companies.
February 2025
About Heartland Banc Corp
Heartland BancCorp is an OTCQX-traded registered Ohio financial holding company and the parent of Heartland Bank, which operates 20 full-service banking offices in Central Ohio and Greater Cincinnati.
January 2025
About Highvern
Highvern is a leading provider of bespoke solutions in fund administration, wealth management, and trust services for institutional investors, family-owned businesses, and individuals.
January 2025
About Blackstone Private Credit
Blackstone Private Credit is part of Blackstone Credit’s $100+ billion direct lending platform, which provides privately originated, senior secured, floating rate loans to North American and European companies.
January 2025
About MSC Income Fund
MSC Income Fund, Inc. is a principal investment firm that primarily provides debt capital to private companies owned by or in the process of being acquired by a private equity fund and also provides customized long-term debt and equity capital solutions.
January 2025
About Boundary Street Capital
Boundary Street Capital is a private credit investment manager focused on providing flexible capital solutions specifically to lower middle market technology and telecommunications businesses.
January 2025
About United Bankshares
United Bankshares, Inc. is the bank holding company for United Bank that provides banking products and services. United Bank operates in more than 225 branch banking locations.
January 2025
About Camden National Corporation
Founded in 1875, Camden National Bank is a full-service community bank offering the latest digital banking, complemented by award-winning, personalized service.
January 2025
About SouthState Corporation
SouthState Corporation is a financial services company. SouthState Bank, N.A., the company's nationally chartered bank subsidiary, provides consumer, commercial, mortgage and wealth management solutions to more than one million customers.
December 2024
About Berkshire Hills
With $11.6 billion in assets and 83 financial centers, Berkshire Bank provides a full suite of tailored banking solutions through its commercial banking, retail banking, consumer lending, private banking and wealth management divisions to customers in New England and New York.
December 2024
About First Commonwealth Bank
First Commonwealth provides a full range of commercial banking, consumer banking, mortgage, equipment finance, wealth management and insurance products and services through its subsidiaries First Commonwealth Bank and First Commonwealth Insurance Agency.
December 2024
About VersaBank
VersaBank is a North American bank with a difference. VersaBank has a branchless, digital, business-to-business model based on its proprietary state-of-the-art technology that enables it to profitably address underserved segments of the banking industry in a significantly risk mitigated manner.
December 2024
About Flushing Financial Corporation
Flushing Financial Corporation (NASDAQ:FFIC) is the holding company for Flushing Bank®, an FDIC insured, New York State-chartered commercial bank that operates banking offices in Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and on Long Island.
December 2024
About Coastal Financial Corporation
Headquartered in Everett, Washington, Coastal Financial Corporation (“CCB” or the “Company”), provides a full range of banking products and services to small and medium-sized businesses, professionals, and individuals.
December 2024
About Arthur J. Gallagher & Co
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., a global insurance brokerage, risk management and consulting services firm, is headquartered in Rolling Meadows, Illinois.
December 2024
About Carter Bankshares
Carter Bankshares, Inc. is a bank holding company and the parent company of Carter Bank, a state-chartered community bank headquartered in Martinsville Virginia, with $4.6 billion in total assets as of September 30, 2024.
November 2024
About Merchants Bancorp
Ranked as a top performing U.S. public bank by S&P Global Market Intelligence, Merchants is a diversified bank holding company headquartered in Carmel, Indiana.
November 2024
About Blackstone Private Credit
Blackstone Private Credit Fund ("BCRED") is Blackstone’s non-listed business development company (“BDC”). BCRED aims to provide income-focused individual investors access to private credit in a continuously offered fund structure.
November 2024
About Eagle Point Enhanced Income Trust
Eagle Point Enhanced Income Trust (the “Fund” or “Enhanced Income”) is a closed-end management investment company, registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, operating as an interval fund.
November 2024
About Dime Community Bancshares
Dime Community Bancshares, Inc., is the holding company for Dime Community Bank (the “Bank”), a New York state chartered bank which has focused on serving the NYC metro markets for more than a century.
November 2024
About Boundary Street Capital
Boundary Street Capital is a private credit investment manager focused on providing flexible capital solutions specifically to lower middle market technology and telecommunications businesses.
November 2024
About CBC Bancorp
CBC Bancorp is a registered bank holding company and the parent company for Commercial Bank of California. Commercial Bank of California is a full-service bank and diversified financial services company serving the business and professional communities of Los Angeles and Orange counties.
October 2024
About Kaizen
Kaizen Reporting (‘Kaizen’), headquartered in the UK, is a regulatory and data specialist supporting global financial institutions to fulfil their compliance and regulatory reporting obligations.
October 2024
About GBank Financial Holdings Inc
GBank Financial Holdings Inc. (OTCQX: GBFH) is a bank holding company that conducts business through its wholly owned subsidiary, GBank. GBank is a Nevada state-chartered bank, with deposits insured by the FDIC.
October 2024
About Integrated Financial Holdings
Integrated Financial Holdings, Inc.is a financial holding company based in Raleigh, North Carolina. The Company is the holding company for West Town Bank & Trust, an Illinois state-chartered bank.
September 2024
About Amerant Bancorp Inc.
Amerant Bancorp Inc. is a bank holding company headquartered in Coral Gables, Florida since 1979. The Company provides individuals and businesses in the U.S. with deposit, credit and wealth management services.
September 2024
About New Mountain Finance Corporation
New Mountain Finance Corporation is a leading business development company (BDC) focused on providing direct lending solutions to U.S. upper middle market companies backed by top private equity sponsors.
September 2024
About NewtekOne
NewtekOne, Inc. is a financial holding company, which along with its bank and non-bank consolidated subsidiaries, provides a wide range of business and financial solutions under the Newtek brand to independent business owners.
September 2024
About Main Street Capital Corporation
Main Street Capital is a principal investment firm that provides long-term debt and equity capital to lower middle market companies and debt capital to middle market companies.
September 2024
About GreenDot
Green Dot Corporation is a financial technology and registered bank holding company committed to giving people the power to bank seamlessly, affordably, and with confidence.
September 2024
About Skyline Bankshares
Skyline Bankshares, Inc., the parent of Skyline National Bank headquartered in Floyd, Virginia, operates 27 branches in Southwestern Virginia and Northwestern North Carolina.
September 2024
About VersaBank
VersaBank provides banking products and services in the United States and Canada. The company's success is derived through their branchless, digital, partner-based (B2B) model.
Transaction history may include transactions completed by a Raymond James banker while at a former firm.